@MerlinJStar I wonder if @psmaldino might have some useful suggestions.
@BatSara For whatever reason, I can't see what this is in response to.
@psmaldino I was responding to this question from @MerlinJStar:
"Any computational social science books folks recommend? Prefer if it's under $100. Located in the US for shipping requirements.
"If you need information about my background, I have a bachelor's in mathematics and a master's in quantitative psychology. I don't have a whole lot of specifically computational knowledge, but I do have quite a bit of psychological and mathematical knowledge."
@psmaldino Paul, I just figured out why you can't see the original poster's question. Unfortunately, your instance has been suspended by theirs. I can't remember the details now, but I recall seeing discussion on the FediBlock hashtag about qoto's admin and problems with moderation, resulting in it being defederated by some instances.
@BatSara Ugh. I've seen some of that discussion. I can't stand the attitude of "they won't block people I don't like, so therefore I don't like them and must therefore ban them." I picked qoto sort of arbitrarily when mastodon.social wasn't taking new members and saw it was STEM-based and affiliated with preprint servers like arXiv. I'm don't have any commitments to qoto per se, but I find the general tactic really distasteful and one of the worst things about mastodon.
@psmaldino I understand your frustration, but unfortunately, it's not really the vibe anywhere, because where harassment is tolerated, people who are harassed often leave the conversation rather than exhaust themselves blocking one individual after another. Moderation is tricky and will never please everyone all the time. It was a bit of a bother, but I migrated a couple of times to find a server with a focus and set of rules that suited me.