Hello everyone, thanks to those of you who followed me as I migrated my old Mastodon account (of several years!) from mastodon.xyz to scholar.social. There is a really great community here but I'm moving over to a new account:
If Mastodon's wonderful migrate feature works smoothly I think many (most? all?) followers will get transferred over or have otion to. All my old toots stay safely on the frozen account here. I’ll post reasons below. 1/
2/3 Instance hosts all have difficult decisions on moderation, an important way to make Mastodon a welcome and safe space. They can fully “block” or de-federate bad actors entirely or block media.
They can also "silence" or limit interaction. As I understand this allows you to follow people and read their toots, but crucially removes them from search results when you search for a hashtag. There may be some good reasons for this.
Attached are images that show the admin view:
3/ One reason to "silence" an instance is that, though it has lots of great people, it has poor moderation, and you might not want its hashtag or federated feed from coming into your own instance.
However, it appears that scholar.social decided to "silence" 7 out of the top 20 Mastodon instances. These include: mastodon.online, mastodon.sdf.org, mastodon.social, mastodon.cloud, and fosstodon.org
I see their toots in my home feed, but if I search for a hashtag mentioned, I get nothing.
@konrad There was nothing to do at my end. It's all automatic. You now show up on my following list at the top (as my most recent follower), as if I newly followed you at social.coop, and your old scholar.social account is no longer on the list.
Thanks for the explanation—there’s lots to learn about a federated universe of social media platforms. I like the way folks are experimenting with different moderation and governance models. Good luck with the move!
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