Publics consume and otherwise engage with technoscience in multiple ways. Such consumption and engagement is always active, and publics bring their own knowledges and epistemic practices to engagement with technoscience. While some such engagement may align with mainstream science or involve consumption of it for leisure purposes, other instances involve different forms of knowledge and of epistemic practice, where there are diverging aims, standards, and methods to those of institutionalised research. We therefore observe epistemic diversity.