Fuck! Thanks. Anyway my…ummm…friend can have his meta footprint deleted?

It costs time and money. The handful of times I published articles in an open access journal, I had to pay close to $5K USD per publication.

Theoretically, researchers can publish on Mastodon or something similar but that unfortunately won’t give us the reach we need. That might be fine with well established names, but for dumb-dumbs like myself who are still trying to make a name for ourselves in our field, we want the highest impact publisher we can find. Those typically come with a price tag.

Sometimes the grant also dictates acceptable publishers where you can submit your manuscript.

Sadly, it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Amen to that 🙏🏼

Thanks, I hate it

Why thank you, I’ll take it off your hands.

I was a customer since 2017, cancelled my membership sometime towards the end of last year. Their service was great…when it worked. Over the past year, I have been having issues with connectivity, I know it was the VPN because connection was great once I disabled the tunnel. I have reached out to customer support a handful of times and they were VERY dismissive and rude.

That right there was the reason I cancelled my membership and switched to iVPN. So far, I have been happy over the switch.

I wish I could be called an expat instead of an immigrant, sounds less of a stigma, lucky you. Best of luck out there!

Genuine curiosity, why do you call yourself an “expat” instead of “immigrant”? Is there a difference?

How did you change the logo? I tried to do that on my instance and failed miserably. Running it through docker.

Rob and Catelyn Stark in the Red Wedding. So traumatizing!

You may be able to reverse search the number and find out the provider then reach out to them and report him, hopefully that will hinder him from getting burner numbers easily.

I see what you did their