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Several comments already angrily agreeing with the claim in the headline, which is weird. "Yeah, those academics are all in a bubble together on bsky". Yes, th

• metalman 1y ago
  the bubble already exists, or.....tower, it's called academia.What is quite clear from many personal experiences in online semi professional forums, is that what many top notch acedemics crave is to "profess" to an interested random group in the hopes of finding successors and students, or colaborators that are missing from there actual real world life. This is proving to be clumsy and time consuming, with no good way to moderate, and distinguish between those who's enthusiasims are positive and the always almost's. This whole phenominon is ancient, and we have accounts of identical situations from the agora of athens and many other citys open .....forums the open forumis messy, but it inevitably yields new thoughts and actions bieng adopted, vs a closed school, that yield orthodox reactionary beurocratic stagnancy.
• Arubis 1y ago
  The term “filter bubble” has stopped being quite so universal and become more of a right wing talking point.
  • add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
    Between a bubble and the culture war screeching that is inextricably Twitter now, I'll take the bubble.