A ton already are!

Most viruses, we don’t even notice them… the really virulent ones cause few, if any symptoms.

We just generally don’t worry about them, is all.

Any public facing IT system stood up in the higher ed system I am familiar with, requires IT support to be engaged. A part of that process is sending the request through a software review board, department’s IT, centralized IT, and then assigned to a project manager.

Otherwise, it would be considered a rogue service, and turned off at the edge, and core routers.

Using social media is far removed from operating your own publicly available social media server.

This coming from someone who is trying to get more mastodon usage in higher ed. Profs aren’t the ones who operate these things. Merely getting the approval to get the project started is an immense task.

Most scientists aren’t allowed to do stuff like that, or purely just don’t have the time.