Sascha WolferNov 11, 2022

I have a question: scholar.social is currently blocking a lot of other servers. I don't know what that means exactly, yet. What are the most important consequences of this blocking policy?

Also, I am considering a server change to fediscience.org. Are there any (dis)advantages of fediscience.org vs. scholar.social except the blocking issue I mentioned above?

Thanks for your help!

Show threadDr. Karoline BusseNov 11, 2022
@sascha_wolfer from what I see, most servers are just muted, which means you have an extra step in viewing accounts and approving follow requests (and these servers' posts won't appear on federated TL). The most important consequence, we as scholarsocial users are better protected - in th social sense - from the undermoderated mess that's some parts of the fediverse. It's a sign that @socrates cares for us.
Show threadSascha Wolfer
@kbusse Thanks for pointing out the difference between blocking and muting – that's an important difference. And also thanks for your assessment! That's helping a lot.
Nov 11, 2022 at 11:07amWeb
Show threadDr. Karoline BusseNov 11, 2022
@sascha_wolfer always happy to help!
Show threadAdministrative accountNov 11, 2022

@kbusse @sascha_wolfer The consequences are mainly that it's more difficult for some known bad actors to interact/harass/abuse our members

This allows a space for people whose voices are normally silenced to actually speak

It also imposes a slight burden on those who would like to follow people on limited servers, that you must seek them out, or explicitly allow them to interact by approving follows