Yeah, that's why this only works on Nostr. Every person can publish to the relays and they're done. They don't need to host anything or etc. since they're using the same infrastucture used to post cute cat pics and Bitcoin memes.
And you can publish from an anon npub over Tor, you know. Nobody can tell who did that.
Also, Nostr brings the potential to create other, more modern quality measures, through curation, annotation, remixing, AI, and WoT.
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.
