Well... I didn't think I'd be migrating from one Mastodon server to another one so soon (I just created the account this past spring!), but here we are! 🙄 I joined this particular server because it seemed like this was where fellow academics were going after they left Twitter (or while they were co-establishing their presence on Mastodon). I should have read the prohibitions a bit more carefully at the time, but I hadn't considered how I'd be using Mastodon.  In any case, recently, my account got limited by the server admin because I was using Fedica (formerly tweepsmap) to schedule my posts.  Technically speaking, I was also crossposting to Twitter, but the direction was A (Fedica) --> B (Mastodon) + C (Twitter), not B --> C  which is how I interpreted the rule🤷‍♂️.  In any case, since my profile would not be seen by folks on that server (and perhaps other parts of the Fediverse - unless they specifically looked for me), I decided to pack my bags and go somewhere else.  I did get a note from the server admin after I appealed the limitation - and the appeal was rejected. Here is the message:

"Hi, the point of the "no Twitter crossposters" rule is so that people participate at Scholar, rather than going to another site and sending us stuff as a kind of amplifier and not being a part of the community here

I'll amend the rule to make this clearer, let me know when you've disabled your timed post crossposter or set it to post as Unlisted and I'll un-limit your account"

You know... just because someone uses cross-posting and schedulers for spring doesn't mean that they aren't part of a community. These kinds of activities (posting and engaging) can happen synchronously or asynchronously. They can happen in tandem or parallel to one another. I don't have social media open all day long.  When I read my RSS feeds and decide what to share, I'd like to have things drip out, otherwise, I am spamming my timeline.  I guess this is a bit too hard to comprehend 🙄.  I don't want to be overly harsh on this server admin.  They own it, they pay for it, whatever.  However, it's a bit disingenuous of the fediverse to decry other social platforms of ideological bias when many parts of the fediverse exist as reactionaries to those biases with opposing bias-forces of their own (yet they don't acknowledge it).  How a user wants to engage with the community should be up to them. 

And another thing (picture Peter Griffin here 😂) If users forget to add alt-tags on images (which happened from time to time because fedica doesn't have this functionality), users shouldn't be badgered about it.  I migrated to another server without many issues, but all of my old posts (about 1800 of them) remain on the old server.  For a tool/technology that touts the ability to move from one server to another, this seems like a huge oversight.  OK - rant mode off 😂