Since the early days (mid-2016) of Engineering Archive, we have had a presence on Twitter. It was basically the go-to platform for scientific communication and academic discourse. It was actually through Twitter that the initial introductions were made which allowed engrXiv to exist! However, the social media landscape has changed and Twitter today is a shell of what it once was. While good communities may still be found there, the platform itself is a representation of the worst that the online world has to offer.
As a result, Engineering Archive will be sunsetting our presence on Twitter over the coming months. The @engrXiv account at Twitter has been in passive-only mode for the past couple of years, posting only announcements of new preprints through the IFTTT service. However, we have made the decision to cease posting to that platform all-together at the conclusion of our current IFTTT subscription period in May 2025. After that time, the Twitter account for the server will be effectively archived and no long actively announcing new preprints.
Instead, we encourage you to find us on the Fediverse via our Mastodon account, @engrxiv@scicomm.xyz, where we will continue to announce new preprints and other activities relevant to the server. We have decided for now to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and will not be creating accounts on either Bluesky or Threads. We hope instead that you will join us on the fediverse where you can find our account through Mastodon, Friendica, Lemmy, or any of the other plethora of compatible services. Of course, you can always go old-school and subscribe to our RSS feed! This same RSS feed can be accessed using the Matrix messaging protocol at #engrXiv-new-preprints:matrix.org.