Succesfully iniating this from the fediverse would be such a massive boost in public visibility and discoursive strength of the project of collectivization of information infrastructure (like lemmy).

Imagine we fluffin freed science from capital and basically all the scientists openly stated how useful this was

Those few top people are assholes who love the enormous power they wield over PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty, and they are usually editors on those big name journals. Unlike the people who actually do the work, they are getting paid from this system.

Ya that would be awesome and I think that movement would gain momentum really fast since most high profile labs have all had to deal with this nonsense.

That or legislation/open access rules to make these papers more accessible. One can dream.

the thing that they're supposed to provide is peer review, solve that and we're good to go. would be easier to do with some kind of central oversight and stable funding, we're not talking about shitposting instance for 250 people that nobody will notice if it goes down