RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115689000321793259

The post below was one of my least popular on Mastodon. I'm trying to figure out whether 1) people don't read me for news about biology, 2) everyone already heard about this, 3) people were just grossed out, or 4) something else.

But today I discovered that my similar post on Bluesky was one of my most popular there so far!

This makes me like Mastodon all the more.

(Some good people I followed here have moved to Bluesky, so I'm trying it - but so far it's mainly good for discovering the latest outrage that people there are ineffectually yelling about. I *do* like to learn about these outrages - political news I may not have noticed - but it takes just a couple minutes a day, no lengthy doomscrolling required. I prefer Mastodon because my posts here, no matter how serious and/or unpopular, get at least bit of substantive engagement. E.g. for this post of mine, @llewelly replied "hm. Pelophylax nigromaculatus is native to Eurasia, so I guess this is great news for Europe, but since it's not native to North America, I don't think it makes much difference to the separate invasive hornet issues in North America." That's *my* kind of social media.)