Also, Nostr adds the public discussion. This is really important.
Would you rather have some paper, buried 20 pages in, to a journal hardly anyone reads, or have your paper trending on social media and getting you invites to podcasts and etc.? There's a reason, why so many scientists are on social media. Be seen, engage, get mentioned, or your work is irrelevant to the wider discussion.
Trending/not trending is not really relevant for me since the impact of research can take years/decades to pop off. Yoshua Bengio is a great example of this. Nobody cared about all the fundamental ML algorithms he was coming up with in the 1990s/2000s until deep learning took off in early 2010s and those old publications were suddenly getting cited thousands of times a year.
The transparency and openess that comes with searchability and possibility for public discussion are much more interesting to me. They go hand-in-hand.
Well, academia was practically a village, back then.
