I'm considering a policy regarding federation with larger instances that might run as follows:
In the spirit of decentralisation, Scholar Social will silence Mastodon instances whose user count is greater than 10,000, unless they have closed registrations
Documentation on what "silencing" means here:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/moderation/
tl;drβyou will still be able to follow users on a silenced instance, but they will not appear on the timeline
Fediverse meta; instance policy; actually looking for input
@bgcarlisle @platypus Is there anyway of doing this which isn't scraping? Not sure there is, which runs against some instances anti-bot policies, no?