@ckohtala I don't see why restricting who can follow me has anything to do with being well moderated. You can see my posts without even logging in. Why restrict following?

@marcjones It's more than half of my followers.

@yabellini Here's an #rstats reanalysis I did in markdown. It also includes some custom HTML and CSS for nicer collapsing code and figures that expand when clicked. http://steveharoz.com/research/comments/sampling.html

Apparently, the reason I've been having so much trouble with mastodon is that the server is extremely restrictive, and it doesn't "federate" (whatever that means).

1. I can't follow people easily. When I click a link to someone's profile and click "follow", it asks me to login.

2. I have to approve everyone who follows me, which is really obnoxious. (see image)

Will moving servers fix this? Is there a walkthrough? This kind of hostile UX makes people not use a system.

@Natalie @Cacotopos Thanks, but
1. Not putting that info under preferences is annoying.
2. I checked, and it's turned off. So I don't see why I still get follow requests.

@Cacotopos I think it varies by domain. And I can't find a setting for it 🤷 .

How to I allow anyone to follow me without needing to approve follow requests?

An old project that produced some pretty pictures.
Full image: http://steveharoz.com/research/cosmology/big.png

Hmm... looks like @Mastodon doesn't support WEBP files and has a 10MB limit on GIFs 😕

Excellent quote:
"Without transparency, we would be forced to either blindly accept or blindly doubt the results. As we have said before (.pdf), transparency does not tie researchers’ hands. It opens readers' eyes."

http://datacolada.org/101