Curated Resource ( ? )
Science Must Decentralize
Curated:
28/10/2025 from
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize
my notes ( ? )
"When infrastructure is too centralized, gatekeepers gain new powers to capture, enshittify, and censor."
Short, link-rich piece on the many ways science is being undermined by gatekeeping scientific publishers and "Large intermediary platforms... inserting themselves between researchers and between the researchers and these published works—through platformization... corrosive to privacy and intellectual freedom. Enshittification has come for research infrastructure...[as] a growing threat of surveillance in scholarly publishing gives these measures a menacing tilt, chilling the publication and access of targeted research areas. These risks spike in the midst of governmental campaigns to muzzle scientific knowledge, buttressed by a scourge of platform censorship on corporate social media."
The response is open science and decentralisation, with infra "built in the open and on interoperable standards, and hostile to corporate (or governmental) takeovers... traditional [social media] platforms fall short: algorithms typically prioritizing paid content, downrank off-site links, and prioritize sensational claims to drive engagement... [whereas] on platforms like Bluesky, scientists get more engagement and find interactions are more useful. Institutions play a pivotal role in encouraging the adoption of these alternatives"
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The above notes were curated from the full post www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize.Related reading
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