@Drand @natalie I can't reply to you because, although you are happy to scrape my instance, you have chosen an instance that blocks me.
I am skeptical that "researching content moderation policies" is an accurate way to describe what you are doing: I have not been asked about my content moderation policies. And how are you going to determine whether a given piece of content is in violation of an instance's policy if you don't even know whether the moderators have seen it? If you are interested in misinformation, you may wish to join or operate an instance that ensures that you can interact with the people you are exploiting for your career.
Can you explain whether or not you told the IRB that you were going to reimburse me for my bandwidth overages? Also, when I am done going through my logs to finish figuring out whose posts you have scraped and I notify them, where should I send them to request the removal of their posts from your dataset without compromising their anonymity?