5/ The Mastodon instance migration procedure: 1) export follows from here and import them over at social.coop 2) leave a goodbye message here so frozen account has informative last message 3) follow the instruction steps for migration feature in Mastodon settings 5) Watch as your old followers trickle in on new server, but last time I did this it was 100% - my guess is that followers get some kind of choice of whether to transfer? What do you see on your end?

4/ Because lots of people I would like to interact with (and have turn up in hashtag searches), I decided to move. I applied and was accepted at social.coop. It is not for everyone, but here is what I like: 1) they don't seem to silence major instnaces 2) after probation period, you are expected to pay monthly $1-10 to help upkeep of server, so it is sustainable 3) it has wonderfully thoughout and democratic governance structure.

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.

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:

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:

@konrad@social.coop

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/

#instancemigration

@DrLindseyFitzharris @katherineschof8 of course! Here is the form! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZL1FsDAFRDXrkJBycG5s_SJ59Li5kqk7K936SieOn8sCpGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Can’t stop historian brain from noticing that the fact most of us have kept their Twitter handle here is kind of like chimneys on houses now heated electrically:

Something that used to be an infrastructural necessity because there was only one domain is now a vestigial design feature.

#histodons #twitterstorians #historians #history

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."

Ok, Mastodon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.

Hello #histodon and other folks!
A brief self-intro: I'm a historian of 19th-century American political economy, in the world.

My first book, Trading Freedom, is about the politics of the first century of #USA trade w/ #China. Now I'm investigating the rise of the #businessman as a potent political & cultural identity. I also co-lead a collaborative project looking at the history of slavery and dispossession in Delaware.

I mainly post blind quotes from sources, though. #commonplacing

Dersom noen skulle ønske å dykke ned dypere i fødiverset og savner en versjon av #Goodreads, sjekk ut #BookWyrm! :) Ser ut som om bookwyrm.social er veldig treg etter stor vekst i det siste. Vet ikke om noen norske instanser, men jeg er her: https://books.theunseen.city/user/whacking-sprinkler

Kan godt hende dere må legge til en del, spesielt norske, bøker manuelt, men det er jo gjort fort dersom mange bidrar! :) #NorskTut

@dambaras admins often post Patreon via the about server page (scholar.social does this). Social.coop (which I just joined and am evaluating to join have a much more elaborate funding policy)

@dambaras @konrad @SayakaChatani @chelseaszendi @qiao_j @hildedeweerdt @ethanmark hello! I’m a modern Chinese literature professor who’s interested in #nonfiction writing and #documentary, particularly as they explore #aging and #disability. Also interested in intersections between #sciencefiction and documentary. Emotional aspects of socialist culture too. #Asianist #Litstudies

@Simonverwer hello Simon, looks like there is a list of lists getting bigger: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Looking for academics on Mastodon? Here are lists of historians, geographers, STS, sociologists, geographers, and more!

https://t.co/zxiGs6XgwF

#mastodonmigration

@Nette if you move through the migration function anyone visiting old profile will see a frozen profile like this old one of mine: https://mastodon.xyz/@konrad I would be happy to update the form if you move!

Time for #introduction after #TwitterMigration: Historian and translator. Assistant professor of Jewish studies at the University of Warsaw. I deal with the social history of Jews, mainly in the interwar period. My current project focuses on the image of Jews from the countries of the West Asia - North Africa in the interwar period. You can find my works here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9557-5613 On the project (in Polish): https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=536193 #histodons

Well, hello. I am a medical historian at the medical faculty of the University of Augsburg and now, apparently, also a #histodon. Currently, I am mostly interested in the past futures of twentieth-century medicine (e.g. this: https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10018), but I also write about psychiatry and psychotherapy. #histmed #histsci #histodons

Um, hullo?

I'm a historian (or #histodons, adorable) on the small(ish) island of Tasmania, at the bottom of Australia. I grew up here and occasionally like to go awandering, but do so love this island a lot.

I research colonial landscapes, particularly in the early years of a colony – I'm interested in how colonisers interpreted the land and adapted to it. Most of my work so far has looked at Tasmania, but I'm starting to branch out. I am a teeny bit of a map nerd, and am keen to find my fellow #HGIS and #GIS friends out here.

And this is one of my favourite maps, purely for the details on the illustration. #mapmonstermonday ain't got nothing on the wild creatures of Tasmania.

Tas Archives, AF396/1/114

@torstenkathke @perspektivbrocken @micahcarlson @histodons I was able to follow it!