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Why would a geologist spin up a Mastodon server, period? Or any other kind of social media server?
Because scientists are normal people, and probably a higher proportion of them than normal are tech nerds.
People don't have only one interest. The board members of fediscience.org are biosystems scientists and forensic linguists.