Open social!? (original) (raw)

Up to now, E has always disparaged the monolith that is social media and ****book in particular. Thankfully, there are almost always alternatives, but one has to look for them...

Prompted by the recent purchase sell-out of 'whatsapp', decided to renew use of 'Diaspora'. The open access world is now seriously compromised by predatory sub-standard "publishers"; in a recent post about publication of fake, computer-generated(!) papers by conference proceedings publishers. For the record, the post was first read via this Diaspora pod stream post.