Regarding the Situation with…Twitter, Bluesky, Social Media
We at #NephJC pride ourselves on bringing you the best in nephrology publications and innovations without commercial bias. As we’ve stated during many a donation drive, we are beholden to none but our followers and readers.
Having said that, we’ve noticed a trend since the death of Twitter (yes, it will always be Twitter to the real FOAMed illuminati). The diaspora of NephTwitter were scattered throughout the nephro-universe of social media, never quite finding a new home. Perhaps the downfall of the Nephrologians can be a plot line for the next Mandalorian season?? Many left the social media space altogether because of the division, politicization and plain BS of some of the algorithms (I for one don’t need to see EVERYTHING Elon posts). However, we still believe there is a need for our unique style of nephrology education. Jon Stewart- yes, the comedian- recently likened social media to smoking: an addictive, attention seeking habit that is generally recognized as not healthy for most people and that is likely to be regulated for teen and self-regulate by adults. He believed the antidote was more long-form, nuanced edu-tainment. So, it light of the changing landscape, we are going to focus more on our blogs, VAs, and podcasts and less on live discussions on Bluesky.
NephJC is nothing if not nimble, and we have never been afraid of change.
So, given the low attendance at live chats (no judgement) we’re changing to a summary thread (a new 10 posts) with provocative questions to answer, at your leisure. We hope this keeps the discussions going without the need to be on social media for prolonged periods or at a specific hour and day. These threads will be posted at the familiar 9pm EST every other Tuesday. This shorter form will also allow us to post on multiple sites, and hopefully we will be easily accessible to you where you chat with other nephrophiles. Feel free to reply, chat, tag people in conversations whenever and wherever you see a #NephJC post. The team will be around, but we won’t be actively ‘moderating’ a one hour chat.
Sincerely,
NephJC Leadership
PS: As always we love to hear from our audience. If you have suggestions, or a better way to reach more people, we are all ears. Heck, if we hear enough complaints we might even bring back the chats!😉
