There's a huge chunk of the network that "we" represent, that are widely blocked but also widely federated with, that are almost completely un-remarked-on by these "academics", because they all live behind the Fediblock firewall, and only cross over to search how many times the word "nigger" was used on servers. It's pathetic that this tiny, self-imposed restriction filters everything they perceive about the Fediverse and how it works.

When are we going to get better academic papers on the "real" Fediverse, not the highly-filtered one?