They never noticed nostr enough to try it. How should we reach these communities? Would a subreddit-like structure help everyone gather? https://image.nostr.build/dcc7536d2ea432489e11b81e2435f09096000bba4edd3fd8d900904cc0acf9c8.png
I’m interested in this problem as an academic myself
how do you gather with your community to discuss papers?
I’m less active on non-Nostr social media (Twitter) in general so I may not be the best representative. For me: - SMS, Email, and LinkedIn DMs are how I talk one v one, and that’s still how I share most papers I come across - OpenReview is a great system for actual reviewing of papers that is in the public domain, although a more formal process - lots of folks like subreddits like r/machinelearning - ResearchGate is one of the best platforms to directly request a paper from an author that is otherwise behind a paywall you don’t have access to. When you publish behind paywalls (less common but sometimes still requires) authors maintain the ability to share 1 v 1 with anyone, they just can’t post publicly - Twitter is where most casual short form discussions happen I started a moderated community called AI-papers and posted a paper review but then didn’t really pursue sharing that - one issue was someone had a pending post but I didn’t have a way to get notified so I saw it super late
It’s nice to have communities based around sub areas because many academic don’t care too much about a paper unless it’s related enough to their focus areas
do you do it today on chat/email/listserv/reddit/twitter or IRL?
We need closed communities, they'd probably appreciate top-down moderation, exclusive access. I'm thinking of interoperable academic knowledge bases compared to siloed academic journals. PDF's don't make sense anymore with hyperlinked knowledge. Lets link ideas semantically where every party has agency to curate and work on their ideas without risking being invaded by toxicity and spam, but at the meta level because of nostr, anyone can listen to their relays being broadcasted and mix it in with other knowledge bases. just to start you off 😉 https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-01/npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf