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A part of me is a bit pleased to see scholar.social slowly dying.They block a huge portion of the fediverse without justification while simultaneously accusing other instances of wrong doing without bothering to back up those claims with evidence or even links to posts, they certainly dont give moderators a chance to address issues, if issues even really existed.
At first a long time ago they silenced us along with half the known Fediverse. I very politely approached the owner and asked if there had been an issue and if there was anything I could to to remedy the situation (I had asked from an alt account). He was furious I dared contact him at all, immediately blocked the account and went on ranting about us being fascists or some nonsense without a single example.
Anyway at the time and over the following months a huge portion of scholar.social users started following us and circumventing the silence and hundreds of accounts started migrating over to #QOTO. Of course this enraged the owner even more and again with no real reason he changed the silence on QOTO to an outright suspension.
To this day we still see new users all the time closing out their accounts at scholar.social entirely and moving here even though they cant migrate accounts the mastodon way, and active user count on scholar.social has plummeted and their local feeds quality has seriously taken a hit. QOTO has a much larger active users count and a much healthier community I can be proud of. No regrets.
