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[Al-O-Meter]

Speaking of Mastodon, I noticed in recent months that many professional archaeologists were discussing migrating over to Mastodon, doing so, and encouraging others to join them. I see where that is the case in many disciplines:

GitHub - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon: A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon

A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

github.com

The Complete Guide to Mastodon and Twitter for Academics - The Struggling Scientists 2025

In this article, we will explore the differences between Mastodon and Twitter, as well as the benefits of using Mastodon for academics.

thestrugglingscientists.com

Some pros and cons:

Should I join Mastodon? A scientists’ guide to Twitter’s rival

The open-source platform has added nearly half a million users in little more than a week — but should scientists make the leap? We examine the pros and cons.

www.nature.com

It is not really a surprise that many scientists would look favorably toward Mastodon. The values of those who have no regard for the consent of the prey in their sexual pursuits seem to align quite well with the values demonstrated by Mastodon.

Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

www.nature.com

How Women Are Harassed Out of Science

The discrimination young researchers endure makes America’s need for STEM workers even greater.

www.theatlantic.com

Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science

It's not just movie moguls and politicians; the problem is rampant in STEM fields as well. But recent moves by major organizations could mark a sea change in addressing this entrenched, degrading behavior.

www.scientificamerican.com

Meanwhile, Twitter is taking strides in the opposite direction.

A New Sheriff in Town: Musk Targets Child Sex Exploitation on Twitter as 'Priority #1'

For newly minted Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk, overhauling the controversy-plagued social media site is serious busin

www1.cbn.com

Dissolving the so-called safety team at Twitter headed by pedophile Yoel Roth, who advocated for opening gay hook-up apps to minors, is proof that Musk is serious. That some scientists are now strongly considering a move to the more pedophile-friendly Mastodon isn't shocking.

 

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It is not really a surprise that many scientists would look favorably toward Mastodon. The values of those who have no regard for the consent of the prey in their sexual pursuits seem to align quite well with the values demonstrated by Mastodon.

Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

www.nature.com

How Women Are Harassed Out of Science

The discrimination young researchers endure makes America’s need for STEM workers even greater.

www.theatlantic.com

Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science

It's not just movie moguls and politicians; the problem is rampant in STEM fields as well. But recent moves by major organizations could mark a sea change in addressing this entrenched, degrading behavior.

www.scientificamerican.com

Meanwhile, Twitter is taking strides in the opposite direction.

A New Sheriff in Town: Musk Targets Child Sex Exploitation on Twitter as 'Priority #1'

For newly minted Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk, overhauling the controversy-plagued social media site is serious busin

www1.cbn.com

Dissolving the so-called safety team at Twitter headed by pedophile Yoel Roth, who advocated for opening gay hook-up apps to minors, is proof that Musk is serious. That some scientists are now strongly considering a move to the more pedophile-friendly Mastodon isn't shocking.

Probably your dumbest post to date. World class stupidity….

 

[fishonjazz]

It is not really a surprise that many scientists would look favorably toward Mastodon. The values of those who have no regard for the consent of the prey in their sexual pursuits seem to align quite well with the values demonstrated by Mastodon.

Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

www.nature.com

How Women Are Harassed Out of Science

The discrimination young researchers endure makes America’s need for STEM workers even greater.

www.theatlantic.com

Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science

It's not just movie moguls and politicians; the problem is rampant in STEM fields as well. But recent moves by major organizations could mark a sea change in addressing this entrenched, degrading behavior.

www.scientificamerican.com

Meanwhile, Twitter is taking strides in the opposite direction.

A New Sheriff in Town: Musk Targets Child Sex Exploitation on Twitter as 'Priority #1'

For newly minted Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk, overhauling the controversy-plagued social media site is serious busin

www1.cbn.com

Dissolving the so-called safety team at Twitter headed by pedophile Yoel Roth, who advocated for opening gay hook-up apps to minors, is proof that Musk is serious. That some scientists are now strongly considering a move to the more pedophile-friendly Mastodon isn't shocking.

You trumpers see pedophiles everywhere. You trumpers also project a lot.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

You trumpers see pedophiles everywhere. You trumpers also project a lot.

Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches. No one believes the sciences don't have a problem in that direction. Right, left, center, this year, last year, last decade, you'll find source after source reiterating that issue. If you care to look you'll also see that educators, a profession to which most of these scientists belong, have a molestation problem. Far more kids are molested by educators each year than by priests, and it isn't close.

The biggest difference between Mastodon and Twitter is that Mastodon is decentralized with no single entity having control over all the hosting servers. The fundamental architecture of Mastodon makes it impossible to remove child pornography which is why it flourishes there. By contrast, Twitter has control over the hosting servers and has the ability to police content. Twitter did have a child pornography problem and it wasn't because they lacked the technical ability to adequately police it but rather the team at Twitter responsible for implementing a solution made decisions that failed to curtail that traffic adequately. Maybe it was incompetence and maybe it was motivated. You'd have to ask Yoel Roth. Thankfully Elon Musk fired Yoel and that entire team.

Personally I don't see why wanting to protect kids is a political issue. I don't see why objecting to the sexual exploitation of children is all that is required to label me a Trumper but these are strange times I guess.

 

[One Brow]

Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches.

The stupid part was the conflation of the sexual harassment of women (a real problem) with pedophilia (not a problem in the sciences). Only a self-blinded, unthinking, stupid-by-choice person would think the issues are related.

The fundamental architecture of Mastodon makes it impossible to remove child pornography which is why it flourishes there.

However, not in the spaces the scientists are leaving Twitter for. The fundamental architecture of Mastodon means that you'll won't see child porn unless you go looking for it.

Personally I don't see why wanting to protect kids is a political issue.

Supporting a political agenda with false claims that it protects children is older than anyone here in this forum. You're not fooling anyone, except maybe yourself.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Only a self-blinded, unthinking, stupid-by-choice person would think the issues are related.

The issues are identical. They are both sexual pursuits with a disregard for getting consent. The only difference is that in one case the object of sexual desire cannot consent and in the other the object of sexual desire does not consent. The problem in both instances is not with the victims. Drawing distinctions there doesn't change the problem being the exact same of a perpetrator acting on their lusts without consent.

I'm not clear on why you are trying to divide them but I do see your efforts at dismissing these types of behavior though misdirection at irrelevant details is receiving up votes from those who you'd think would want to whistle past the graveyard on this discussion.

 

[fishonjazz]

Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches. No one believes the sciences don't have a problem in that direction. Right, left, center, this year, last year, last decade, you'll find source after source reiterating that issue. If you care to look you'll also see that educators, a profession to which most of these scientists belong, have a molestation problem. Far more kids are molested by educators each year than by priests, and it isn't close.

The biggest difference between Mastodon and Twitter is that Mastodon is decentralized with no single entity having control over all the hosting servers. The fundamental architecture of Mastodon makes it impossible to remove child pornography which is why it flourishes there. By contrast, Twitter has control over the hosting servers and has the ability to police content. Twitter did have a child pornography problem and it wasn't because they lacked the technical ability to adequately police it but rather the team at Twitter responsible for implementing a solution made decisions that failed to curtail that traffic adequately. Maybe it was incompetence and maybe it was motivated. You'd have to ask Yoel Roth. Thankfully Elon Musk fired Yoel and that entire team.

Personally I don't see why wanting to protect kids is a political issue. I don't see why objecting to the sexual exploitation of children is all that is required to label me a Trumper but these are strange times I guess.

Its just weird because I never ever see child porn or pedophiles or anything like that, yet certain people seem to always know where that kind of stuff is to be found.

 

[One Brow]

The issues are identical. They are both sexual pursuits with a disregard for getting consent.

The Venn diagram of the perpetrators has very little overlap, the behaviors involved are completely different (open hostility vs. secrecy, etc.), the end goal of the behavior is different (domination vs. illicit gratification). It's as if you have no understanding, at all, of the factors that drive these people.

I'm not clear on why you are trying to divide them

I don't have to divide Europe and Canada, the Atlantic Ocean does that for me.

but I do see your efforts at dismissing these types of behavior

I actually acknowledged the behavior and that it was an issue. You responded with a lie, because you can't deal with the truth.

... receiving up votes from those ...

I spent a long time in this forum as one of the least popular posters. You're not even close to what motivates me.

Meanwhile, your use of pedophilia de-stigmatizes it and makes it ordinary, instead of preserving the horrific abuse it should be taken as. How low will you sink, here?

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Its just weird because I never ever see child porn or pedophiles or anything like that, yet certain people seem to always know where that kind of stuff is to be found.

Home | Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

Search sex offender registries for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and Indian Country.

www.nsopw.gov

 

[fishonjazz]

Home | Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

Search sex offender registries for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and Indian Country.

www.nsopw.gov

exactly. You always know.

 

[Gameface]

exactly. You always know.

When you want to know how to grow a tomato, ask a farmer/gardener. When you want to know how to change your spark plugs ask an auto mechanic. When you want to know how to build a deck ask a carpenter.

When you want to know where to find child porn... who ya gonna call?

 

[Red]

Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches. No one believes the sciences don't have a problem in that direction. Right, left, center, this year, last year, last decade, you'll find source after source reiterating that issue. If you care to look you'll also see that educators, a profession to which most of these scientists belong, have a molestation problem. Far more kids are molested by educators each year than by priests, and it isn't close.

One thing I find somewhat ironic is that, on the one hand, you lash out at anyone mentioning QAnon, the conspiracy targeting elite Democrats as child molestors, you claimed QAnon “doesn’t interest anyone”, yet here you are focused on elites(in this case scientists and educators) molesting children, just as QAnon’s conspiracism thinking mode focuses on Democratic elites molesting children. QAnon paints with a broad brush, regarding child molestation, and you seem to be doing so as well. It’s like fishionjazz pointed out: you always know where to look, or you are at least willing to look and find it, if it suits your narrative. And, in this case, your anti-intellectual and anti-liberal educator bias zeros right in on sexual deviancy among scientists and educators, just as QAnon zeros in on sexual deviancy among certain political elites. Maybe you’re projecting when you lash out at the subject of QAnon? Just a thought.

You would have us think “child molestors” whenever the term “scientist” or “educator” is mentioned. Very QAnon-like. And that’s ironic….