@alxsim I'd vote not. I hope that for-profit journals connect with scientists via the fediverse. But, given their general opposition to open science, ecoevo.social should not be their home. They can host an instance or join an instance whose members support their profit model. I have little doubt I'll be able to find the Nature bot if I want to, whatever instance they live on...

THANKS for running ecoevol.social!!! 🙏

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We need to have a community discussion.

I added a new rule that I hope will avoid for-profit content on the server. (https://alxsimon.github.io/ecoevo.social-docs/rules.html)

But what do we do about for-profit journals?

My position is that journals managed by societies are welcome, but what about the other ones? Do we allow them on the server?

My personal view is that they shouldn't be allowed here as they are not contributing back to the community (#AcademicParasites).

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