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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It sounds like all it would take to destroy the predatory for-profit publication oligarchs is a majority of the top few hundred scientists, across major disciplines, rejecting it and switching to a completely decentralized peer-2-peer open-source system in protest... The publication companies seem to gate keep, and provide no value. It's like Reddit. The site's essentially worthless. All of the value is generated by the content creators.

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Succesfully iniating this from the fediverse would be such a massive boost in public visibility and discoursive strength of the project of collectivization of information infrastructure (like lemmy).

Imagine we fluffin freed science from capital and basically all the scientists openly stated how useful this was

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I can only get so erect, please stop.

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Thank you, this justifies to introduce myself as campaign porn producer from now on

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh so this is the kind of stuff that turns on asexual people?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

That would make them scisexual or politisociosexual I guess.

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

(What I'm trying to say is you have my bow)

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

So, shall we do it?

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

Those few top people are assholes who love the enormous power they wield over PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty, and they are usually editors on those big name journals. Unlike the people who actually do the work, they are getting paid from this system.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ya that would be awesome and I think that movement would gain momentum really fast since most high profile labs have all had to deal with this nonsense.

That or legislation/open access rules to make these papers more accessible. One can dream.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

most high profile labs have all had to deal with this nonsense.

It's even worse for low profile labs because those publication fees eat up a greater proportion of our budget.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

the thing that they're supposed to provide is peer review, solve that and we're good to go. would be easier to do with some kind of central oversight and stable funding, we're not talking about shitposting instance for 250 people that nobody will notice if it goes down