TY - JOUR
TI - The digital covenant: non-centralized platform governance on the mastodon social network
AU - Gehl, Robert W.
AU - Zulli, Diana
T2 - Information, Communication & Society
AB - The majority of scholarship on platform governance focuses on for-profit, corporate social media with highly centralized network structures. Instead, we show how non-centralized platform governance functions in the Mastodon social network. Through an analysis of survey data, Github and Discourse developer discussions, Mastodon Codes of Conduct, and participant observations, we argue Mastodon’s platform governance is an exemplar of the covenant, a key concept from federalist political theory. We contrast Mastodon’s covenantal federalism platform governance with the contractual form used by corporate social media. We also use covenantal federalist theory to explain how Mastodon’s users, administrators, and developers justify revoking or denying membership in the federation. In doing so, this study sheds new light on the innovations in platform governance that go beyond the corporate/alt-right platform dichotomy.
DA - 2022/12/15/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/1369118x.2022.2147400
SP - 1
EP - 17
SN - 1369118x
UR - https://lens.org/036-680-747-359-221
L1 - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Adesão a redes sociais: Um estudo de caso da rede Mastodon
AU - Vasconcelos, António
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - Master's Thesis
ST - Adesão a redes sociais
UR - https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/26727
Y2 - 2023/12/17/05:17:59
L1 - https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/26727/1/master_antonio_barros_vasconcelos.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon
AU - La Cava, Lucio
AU - Greco, Sergio
AU - Tagarelli, Andrea
T2 - Applied Network Science
AB - Abstract
Open-source, Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) are emerging as alternatives to the popular yet centralized and profit-driven platforms like Facebook or Twitter. In DOSNs, users can set up their own server, or instance, while they can actually interact with users of other instances. Moreover, by adopting the same communication protocol, DOSNs become part of a massive social network, namely the
Fediverse
. Mastodon is the most relevant platform in the Fediverse to date, and also the one that has attracted attention from the research community. Existing studies are however limited to an analysis of a relatively outdated sample of Mastodon focusing on few aspects at a user level, while several open questions have not been answered yet, especially at the instance level. In this work, we aim at pushing forward our understanding of the Fediverse by leveraging the primary role of Mastodon therein. Our first contribution is the building of an up-to-date and highly representative dataset of Mastodon. Upon this new data, we have defined a network model over Mastodon instances and exploited it to investigate three major aspects: the structural features of the Mastodon network of instances from a macroscopic as well as a mesoscopic perspective, to unveil the distinguishing traits of the underlying federative mechanism; the backbone of the network, to discover the essential interrelations between the instances; and the growth of Mastodon, to understand how the shape of the instance network has evolved during the last few years, also when broading the scope to account for instances belonging to other platforms. Our extensive analysis of the above aspects has provided a number of findings that reveal distinguishing features of Mastodon and that can be used as a starting point for the discovery of all the DOSN Fediverse.
DA - 2021/12//
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1007/s41109-021-00392-5
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 64
J2 - Appl Netw Sci
LA - en
SN - 2364-8228
UR - https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-021-00392-5
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:12
L1 - https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1007/s41109-021-00392-5
L2 - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-021-00392-5
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Moderating the fediverse: Content moderation on distributed social media
AU - Rozenshtein, Alan Z.
T2 - J. Free Speech L.
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 3
SP - 217
ST - Moderating the fediverse
UR - https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/jfspl3§ion=18&casa_token=Kb0GnCOnjGsAAAAA:ZbS2y1sJUt7moMBENuEam8hYPuWVkussHdyrMGWTeIyreraiRdht_kfIJ_8hcxfKEaFBPA
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:19
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies: Lessons from Web3, the Fediverse, and beyond
AU - Allen, Danielle
AU - Lim, Woojin
AU - Frankel, Eli
AU - Simons, Joshua
AU - Siddarth, Divya
AU - Weyl, Glen
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
ST - Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies
UR - https://philpapers.org/rec/ALLEOD
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:20
L1 - https://philpapers.org/archive/ALLEOD.pdf
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
AU - Anaobi, Ishaku Hassan
AU - Raman, Aravindh
AU - Castro, Ignacio
AU - Zia, Haris Bin
AU - Ibosiola, Damilola
AU - Tyson, Gareth
T2 - WWW '23: The ACM Web Conference 2023
C1 - Austin TX USA
C3 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023
DA - 2023/04/30/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1145/3543507.3583487
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - 3109
EP - 3120
LA - en
PB - ACM
SN - 978-1-4503-9416-1
ST - Will Admins Cope?
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583487
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:21
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543507.3583487?casa_token=HPCFuC3BczIAAAAA:0F4H7plVOq8G7oJcoHia28UgdZrz-ufLyE0PjHmpUqigNLxyKceGVqo0aiSTvljQkV5t1e0q3cY
ER -
TY - CHAP
TI - Seven theses on the fediverse and the becoming of FLOSS
AU - Mansoux, Aymeric
AU - Roscam Abbing, Roel
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DP - Google Scholar
UR - https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1699767/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:22
L1 - https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1699767/FULLTEXT01.pdf
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Consumo problemático de medios sociales.?` Es el fediverso la solución?
AU - García Menéndez, Ángel
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - Master's Thesis
ST - Consumo problemático de medios sociales.?
UR - https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/handle/10651/70432
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:26
L1 - https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10651/70432/TFM_AngelGarciaMenendez.pdf?sequence=5
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Utilizing the Fediverse and AI-bots for Youth Engagement During COVID-19 in a Hybrid Preventative Intervention
AU - Cole, Mason
AU - Gary, Kevin
AU - Meier, Matt
AU - Gonzales, Nancy
AU - Pina, Armando
AU - Stoll, Ryan
DA - 2024///
PY - 2024
DP - Google Scholar
UR - https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/285152b6-9649-429f-98d5-77b7e3adaa66
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:28:34
L1 - https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstreams/d94c0e80-3070-4fe7-acbf-a39fa7317a62/download
ER -
TY - BOOK
TI - Fediverse – so geht Social Media. Raus aus den Hassmedien
AU - Simon, Leena
AU - Pietsch, Christian
AB - Sie fühlen sich unwohl, wenn Sie Facebook, Instagram oder Twitter nutzen? Fakenews, Hatespeech, Werbung und Inszenierung machen Ihnen schlechte Laune? Sie wissen nicht, was mit Ihren Daten passiert? Ihr Gefühl täuscht Sie nicht; denn das sind alles gute Gründe, die Social-Media-Großmächte zu meiden.
Doch deswegen müssen Sie nicht auf das Positive der sozialen Netzwerke verzichten. Denn es gibt Alternativen, mit denen Sie Ihre Privatsphäre und Selbstbestimmung behalten. Hier zeigen wir Ihnen, welche Alternativen das sind, warum sie wirklich sozial sind und warum sie wirklich vernetzen – im Fediverse.
Leena Simon und Christian Pietsch geben bieten hier einen niedrigschwelligen Einstieg ins Fediverse: Ganz ohne Buzzword-Bingo. Dieser kurz&mündig-Band ist perfekt geeignet, um ihre Freunde und Familie vom Fediverse als Alternative zu Twitter, Facebook, YouTube und vielen anderen sozialen Diensten im Internet zu überzeugen.
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - pub.uni-bielefeld.de
VL - 16
LA - ger
SN - 978-3-934636-45-3
UR - https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2966158
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:31:29
L1 - https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2966158/2966159/kum_16_free.pdf
ER -
TY - BOOK
TI - Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques
AU - Robin, Chanel
AU - Giard, Eva
AU - Couture, Stéphane
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
SN - 13 978-2-923333-87-8
ST - Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs
UR - http://cirst2.openum.ca/files/sites/179/2022/11/CIRST_Note_2022-01.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:32:20
L1 - http://cirst2.openum.ca/files/sites/179/2022/11/CIRST_Note_2022-01.pdf
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web: the pleroma case
AU - Hassan, Anaobi Ishaku
AU - Raman, Aravindh
AU - Castro, Ignacio
AU - Zia, Haris Bin
AU - De Cristofaro, Emiliano
AU - Sastry, Nishanth
AU - Tyson, Gareth
T3 - CoNEXT '21
AB - Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) implementations rely on federation policies. Administrators use these policies to create rules that ban or modify content that matches specific rules. This, however, can have unintended consequences for many users. In this paper, we present the first study of federation policies on the DW, their in-the-wild usage, and their impact on users. We identify how these policies may negatively impact "innocent" users and outline possible solutions to avoid this problem in the future.
C1 - New York, NY, USA
C3 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
DA - 2021/12/03/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1145/3485983.3494838
DP - ACM Digital Library
SP - 328
EP - 335
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
SN - 978-1-4503-9098-9
ST - Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485983.3494838
Y2 - 2024/01/09/
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3485983.3494838
KW - content moderation
KW - collateral damage
KW - federation policies
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma: the case for decentralised moderation
AU - Hassan, Anaobi Ishaku
AU - Raman, Aravindh
AU - Castro, Ignacio
AU - Tyson, Gareth
T3 - CoNEXT-SW '21
AB - The popularity of Decentralised Web (DWeb) platforms (e.g. Pleroma, Mastodon) has grown in recent years. This has presented users with alternatives to the well-known centralised social network platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. In the DWeb, infrastructure and data ownership is decentralized and hence not under a single administrative authority. This paper explores the challenge of content moderation in such an environment. Specifically, we seek to motivate the need for better moderation technologies, via a use-case analysis of DWeb activity surrounding the 6th January 2021 events at Capitol Hill. Through empirical measurements, we inspect the activity of instances that have grown in popularity during this period, and explore the policies imposed on them by other instances. To do this, we inspect Pleroma, a major DWeb microblogging platform. We investigate the posts generated before, during and after the storming of Capitol Hill on the 12 largest instances in terms of user base and posts, and measure the policy reaction on them.
C1 - New York, NY, USA
C3 - Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop
DA - 2021/12/07/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1145/3488658.3493780
DP - ACM Digital Library
SP - 1
EP - 2
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
SN - 978-1-4503-9133-7
ST - The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488658.3493780
Y2 - 2024/01/09/
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488658.3493780
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - User Sentiments and Dynamics in the Decentralized Web: Reddit Migration’s Impact on Lemmy
AU - Nunes, Thatiany Andrade
T2 - Journal of Multimedia Information System
AB - Decentralized alternatives like Mastodon and Lemmy are gaining popularity in response to growing complaints about centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Reddit, which frequently prioritize business interests over user experience. This study employs a mixed-methods approach to scrutinize the impact of Reddit users’ migration on Lemmy. It elucidates user growth patterns, revealing significant registration spikes and centralization trends within decentralized structures. A sentiment analysis with VADER, incorporating a dataset of 48,272 comments from before and after the migration, depicts a predominantly positive sentiment towards Lemmy and criticisms of Reddit. A comprehensive survey with 354 responses from major Lemmy communities validates and supplements the findings, shedding light on users’ motivations, adaptation experiences, and long-term intentions. Furthermore, qualitative interviews with 16 purposively sampled users offer in-depth insights into individual experiences, community dynamics, and perspectives on decentralization and engagement. This study reveals a promising future for Lemmy, highlighting its adaptability and users’ commitment, and contributes valuable insights to the discourse on the sustainability and growth of decentralized platforms in a dynamic digital landscape.
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DO - 10.33851/JMIS.2023.10.4.333
DP - www.jmis.org
VL - 10
IS - 4
SP - 333
EP - 350
SN - 2383-7632
ST - User Sentiments and Dynamics in the Decentralized Web
UR - http://www.jmis.org/archive/view_article?pid=jmis-10-4-333
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:34:36
L1 - http://www.jmis.org/download/download_pdf?pid=jmis-10-4-333
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
AU - Raman, Aravindh
AU - Joglekar, Sagar
AU - Cristofaro, Emiliano De
AU - Sastry, Nishanth
AU - Tyson, Gareth
T2 - IMC '19: ACM Internet Measurement Conference
C1 - Amsterdam Netherlands
C3 - Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference
DA - 2019/10/21/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1145/3355369.3355572
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - 217
EP - 229
LA - en
PB - ACM
SN - 978-1-4503-6948-0
ST - Challenges in the Decentralised Web
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355369.3355572
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:36:58
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3355369.3355572?casa_token=lOO2tYhG4dcAAAAA:Dc10ABsgEwwTT0sHn2Ea4Uqip3RQWagbwpf_XpIfQ3VwG-xnUWt5B-bHwzFprsnx67vB1CJRsCU
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Follow the “mastodon”: Structure and evolution of a decentralized online social network
AU - Zignani, Matteo
AU - Gaito, Sabrina
AU - Rossi, Gian Paolo
C3 - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 12
SP - 541
EP - 550
ST - Follow the “mastodon”
UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14988
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:00
L1 - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/14988/14838
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Information consumption and boundary spanning in decentralized online social networks: the case of mastodon users
AU - La Cava, Lucio
AU - Greco, Sergio
AU - Tagarelli, Andrea
T2 - Online Social Networks and Media
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 30
SP - 100220
ST - Information consumption and boundary spanning in decentralized online social networks
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468696422000246?casa_token=pyRooa-dvDAAAAAA:LEddBYmodffKNAzTu4YdiQWgfBC4lVyN41oBAeGvBXqBoRN8Ej_4sl0Fi39vx05ZCcMZ8rk
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:05
L2 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468696422000246?casa_token=pyRooa-dvDAAAAAA:LEddBYmodffKNAzTu4YdiQWgfBC4lVyN41oBAeGvBXqBoRN8Ej_4sl0Fi39vx05ZCcMZ8rk
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
AU - Brembs, Björn
AU - Lenardic, Adrian
AU - Murray-Rust, Peter
AU - Chan, Leslie
AU - Irawan, Dasapta Erwin
T2 - Royal Society Open Science
AB - Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. Both historically and conceptually, this is not a new situation for the scholarly community. Historically, scholars were forced to leave social media platform FriendFeed after it was bought by Facebook in 2006. Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. For both short form (Twitter/Mastodon) and longer form (journals) scholarly discourse, decentralized solutions exist, some of which are already enjoying some institutional support. Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. Demonstrating that the scholarly community is capable of creating a truly public square for scholarly discourse, impervious to private takeover, might renew confidence and inspire the community to focus on analogous solutions for the remaining scholarly record—encompassing text, data and code—to safeguard all publicly owned scholarly knowledge.
DA - 2023/07//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1098/rsos.230207
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 10
IS - 7
SP - 230207
J2 - R. Soc. open sci.
LA - en
SN - 2054-5703
ST - Mastodon over Mammon
UR - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:05
L1 - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.230207
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Discovering the Landscape of Decentralized Online Social Networks through Mastodon
AU - La Cava, Lucio
AU - Greco, Sergio
AU - Tagarelli, Andrea
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
UR - https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3194/paper25.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:07
L1 - https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3194/paper25.pdf
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Supporting the portability of profiles using the blockchain in the mastodon social network
AU - Rossaro, Alessandra
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - PhD Thesis
PB - Politecnico di Torino
UR - https://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/12436/
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:11
L1 - https://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/secure/12436/1/tesi.pdf
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Mastodon content warnings: Inappropriate contents in a microblogging platform
AU - Zignani, Matteo
AU - Quadri, Christian
AU - Galdeman, Alessia
AU - Gaito, Sabrina
AU - Rossi, Gian Paolo
C3 - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 13
SP - 639
EP - 645
ST - Mastodon content warnings
UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/3262
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:37:15
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network
AU - Zulli, Diana
AU - Liu, Miao
AU - Gehl, Robert
T2 - New Media & Society
AB - Online interactions are often understood through the corporate social media (CSM) model where social interactions are determined through layers of abstraction and centralization that eliminate users from decision-making processes. This study demonstrates how alternative social media (ASM)—namely Mastodon—restructure the relationship between the technical structure of social media and the social interactions that follow, offering a particular type of sociality distinct from CSM. Drawing from a variety of qualitative data, this analysis finds that (1) the decentralized structure of Mastodon enables community autonomy, (2) Mastodon’s open-source protocol allows the internal and technical development of the site to become a social enterprise in and of itself, and (3) Mastodon’s horizontal structure shifts the site’s scaling focus from sheer number of users to quality engagement and niche communities. To this end, Mastodon helps us rethink “the social” in social media in terms of topology, abstraction, and scale.
DA - 2020/07//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1177/1461444820912533
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 22
IS - 7
SP - 1188
EP - 1205
J2 - New Media & Society
LA - en
SN - 1461-4448, 1461-7315
ST - Rethinking the “social” in “social media”
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820912533
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:41
L1 - https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:29856/CONTENT/mastonmsdraft.pdf/
L2 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444820912533?casa_token=b2T5VMtC1dwAAAAA:w1qXxTQZon17JM1sQMJ4xkbC-IbUnevBSQwOMqOXuaeFXqFBsYM3ohQzbFTgg5oDrijVyceBhA
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study
AU - Jeong, Ujun
AU - Sheth, Paras
AU - Tahir, Anique
AU - Alatawi, Faisal
AU - Bernard, H. Russell
AU - Liu, Huan
AB - A recent surge of users migrating from Twitter to alternative platforms, such as Mastodon, raised questions regarding what migration patterns are, how different platforms impact user behaviors, and how migrated users settle in the migration process. In this study, we elaborate on how we investigate these questions by collecting data over 10,000 users who migrated from Twitter to Mastodon within the first ten weeks following the ownership change of Twitter. Our research is structured in three primary steps. First, we develop algorithms to extract and analyze migration patterns. Second, by leveraging behavioral analysis, we examine the distinct architectures of Twitter and Mastodon to learn how user behaviors correspond with the characteristics of each platform. Last, we determine how particular behavioral factors influence users to stay on Mastodon. We share our findings of user migration, insights, and lessons learned from the user behavior study.
DA - 2023/11/19/
PY - 2023
DP - arXiv.org
PB - arXiv
ST - Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09196
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:48
L1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09196.pdf
L2 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09196
KW - Computer Science - Computers and Society
KW - Computer Science - Social and Information Networks
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Network analysis of the information consumption-production dichotomy in mastodon user behaviors
AU - La Cava, Lucio
AU - Greco, Sergio
AU - Tagarelli, Andrea
C3 - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 16
SP - 1378
EP - 1382
UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19391
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:49
L1 - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/19391/19163
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
AU - He, Jiahui
AU - Zia, Haris Bin
AU - Castro, Ignacio
AU - Raman, Aravindh
AU - Sastry, Nishanth
AU - Tyson, Gareth
T2 - IMC '23: ACM Internet Measurement Conference
C1 - Montreal QC Canada
C3 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
DA - 2023/10/24/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1145/3618257.3624819
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - 111
EP - 123
LA - en
PB - ACM
SN - 9798400703829
ST - Flocking to Mastodon
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618257.3624819
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:50
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3618257.3624819?casa_token=d0ktbWB4iTEAAAAA:KV_aFy9bL4iIzKlMHyL3HS7DiES5fnTfCLyqpqt2-_-SJ-pOVscdO-2fdD_mwLGjg-SKcRP4oXM
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Trust as the Elephant in the Room: Security Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networks with Mastodon
AU - Laux, Lea
AU - Erd\Hodi, László
AU - Selgrad, Kai
C3 - Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
ST - Trust as the Elephant in the Room
UR - https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/nikt/article/view/5653
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:52
L1 - https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/nikt/article/download/5653/5098
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Multi-task dialog act and sentiment recognition on Mastodon
AU - Cerisara, Christophe
AU - Jafaritazehjani, Somayeh
AU - Oluokun, Adedayo
AU - Le, Hoa
AB - Because of license restrictions, it often becomes impossible to strictly reproduce most research results on Twitter data already a few months after the creation of the corpus. This situation worsened gradually as time passes and tweets become inaccessible. This is a critical issue for reproducible and accountable research on social media. We partly solve this challenge by annotating a new Twitter-like corpus from an alternative large social medium with licenses that are compatible with reproducible experiments: Mastodon. We manually annotate both dialogues and sentiments on this corpus, and train a multi-task hierarchical recurrent network on joint sentiment and dialog act recognition. We experimentally demonstrate that transfer learning may be efficiently achieved between both tasks, and further analyze some specific correlations between sentiments and dialogues on social media. Both the annotated corpus and deep network are released with an open-source license.
DA - 2018/07/13/
PY - 2018
DP - arXiv.org
PB - arXiv
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05013
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:42:59
L1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05013.pdf
L2 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05013
KW - Computer Science - Computation and Language
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Applying Uses and Gratifications Theory to Investigate Social Media User's Motivations for Mastodon
AU - Wang, Mian
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - PhD Thesis
PB - University of Cincinnati
UR - https://search.proquest.com/openview/e41d4df7548243e91534c9f551716f6b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:00
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future
AU - Braun, Joshua
T2 - Digital Journalism
DA - 2023/05/10/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - 1
EP - 8
J2 - Digital Journalism
LA - en
SN - 2167-0811, 2167-082X
ST - Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:24
L2 - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619?casa_token=i419RJMsgzwAAAAA%3Ae7AqMgUV3mFmNVDCNuKuzJS9-Y0spQwiSdolRKOUnjDmUY76XA4I_0nPQXAfpPub8RBNHqMqmw&
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Software presentation: Rtoot : Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data
AU - Schoch, David
AU - Chan, Chung-hong
T2 - Mobile Media & Communication
DA - 2023/09//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1177/20501579231176678
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 11
IS - 3
SP - 575
EP - 578
J2 - Mobile Media & Communication
LA - en
SN - 2050-1579, 2050-1587
ST - Software presentation
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20501579231176678
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:26
L2 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20501579231176678
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The environmental footprint of social media hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon
AU - Laser, Stefan
AU - Pasek, Anne
AU - Sørensen, Estrid
AU - Hogan, Mel
AU - Ojala, Mace
AU - Fehrenbacher, Jens
AU - Hepach, M.
AU - Çelik, Leman
AU - Ravi Kumar, K.
T2 - EASST Review
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 41
IS - 3
ST - The environmental footprint of social media hosting
UR - https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:32
L2 - https://easst.net/easst-review/41-3/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Business stealing in a decentralized social network-The case of Mastodon
AU - Dachert, Mathias
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - master thesis
UR - https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recherche/sites/sciencespo.fr.ecole-recherche/files/Master_Thesis_Mathias_Dachert.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:36
L1 - https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recherche/sites/sciencespo.fr.ecole-recherche/files/Master_Thesis_Mathias_Dachert.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Exploring user perceived beliefs, evaluations, and gratifications in ASM: Applying expectancy-value approach for U&G theory on Mastodon instance Liker. social
AU - Liao, Kai Hung
T2 - Frontiers in Communication
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 8
SP - 1288614
ST - Exploring user perceived beliefs, evaluations, and gratifications in ASM
UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1288614/full?fbclid=IwAR1ZqKqlE1-BjfR7KKD1dMUfXlnF0ai52L0VWkmYKWUKqD3McamnAY81J3c_aem_AVv00VWEk_GBVp5_pAGBaSI7Um_yfF32K7hGjqrSdRgoglkUNWD8fMVlznWCFgjVCaU
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:39
L2 - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1288614/full?fbclid=IwAR1ZqKqlE1-BjfR7KKD1dMUfXlnF0ai52L0VWkmYKWUKqD3McamnAY81J3c_aem_AVv00VWEk_GBVp5_pAGBaSI7Um_yfF32K7hGjqrSdRgoglkUNWD8fMVlznWCFgjVCaU
ER -
TY - MANSCPT
TI - Decentralized Social Networks: Pros and Cons of the Mastodon Platform
AU - Shaw, Charlot R.
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DP - Google Scholar
ST - Decentralized Social Networks
UR - https://umm-csci.github.io/senior-seminar/seminars/spring2020/shaw.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:41
L1 - https://umm-csci.github.io/senior-seminar/seminars/spring2020/shaw.pdf
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Unveiling the Dark Side of Social Media: Developing the First Galician Corpus for Misogyny Detection on Twitter and Mastodon
AU - Álvarez Crespo, Lucía María
AU - Castro, Laura M.
C3 - VI Congreso Xove TIC: impulsando el talento científico. Octubre, 2023, A Coruña
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
SP - 87
EP - 90
PB - Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións
ST - Unveiling the Dark Side of Social Media
UR - https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/34240
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:42
L1 - https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/2183/34240/XoveTIC_2023_proceedings_Parte14.pdf?sequence=3
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Uses and Gratifications of Alternative Social Media: Why do people use Mastodon?
AU - Lee, Kijung
AU - Wang, Mian
AB - The primary purpose of this investigation is to answer the research questions; 1) What are users' motivations for joining Mastodon?; 2) What are users' gratifications for using Mastodon?; and 3) What are the primary reasons that the users continue to use Mastodon? We analyzed the collected data from the perspective of the Uses and Gratifications Theory. A questionnaire was designed to measure the opinions of Mastodon users from 15 different Mastodon instances. We examined 47 items through exploratory factor analysis using principal components extraction with Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. The results extracted 7 factors of gratification sought (expectation) and 7 factors of gratification obtained. We discovered that the primary reason that the users join and use Mastodon is the ease of controlling and sheltering users' information from data mining. The findings of the gratification sought structure are similar to findings of the gratification obtained structure, and the comparison between the two groups of data suggests that users are satisfied with the ongoing use of Mastodon.
DA - 2023/03/02/
PY - 2023
DP - arXiv.org
PB - arXiv
ST - Uses and Gratifications of Alternative Social Media
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01285
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:43:45
L1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01285.pdf
L2 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01285
KW - Computer Science - Social and Information Networks
KW - Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances
AU - Nicholson, Matthew N.
AU - Keegan, Brian C
AU - Fiesler, Casey
T2 - CSCW '23: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
C1 - Minneapolis MN USA
C3 - Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
DA - 2023/10/14/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1145/3584931.3606970
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - 86
EP - 90
LA - en
PB - ACM
SN - 9798400701290
ST - Mastodon Rules
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606970
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:44:03
L1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3584931.3606970
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Twitter vs Mastodon vs What's going on with social media?
AU - Williams, Ethan
T2 - Guardian (Sydney)
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
IS - 2041
SP - 7
EP - 7
UR - https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.018398021849285
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:44:13
ER -
TY - BOOK
TI - Mastodon for Dummies
AU - Minnick, Chris
AU - McCallister, Michael
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
PB - John Wiley & Sons
UR - https://books.google.com/books?hl=es&lr=&id=geWoEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=mastodon+AND+(twitter+OR+microblogging+OR+fediverse+OR+fediverso+OR+%22social+network%22+OR+decentralization+OR+decentralisation)&ots=vz5ruUovw3&sig=4WSN0k2-waKyw4er_pv9Vp7VNxk
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:44:14
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Academic# TwitterMigration to Mastodon: The Role of Influencers and the Open Science Movement
AU - Bittermann, André
AU - Lauer, Tim
AU - Peters, Fritz
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
ST - Academic# TwitterMigration to Mastodon
UR - https://www.psycharchives.org/index.php/en/item/6b0a91da-9fdd-44b1-a594-d21fd8baa69b
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:44:16
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - New virtual communities for a renewed digital activism in Italy: A case study of the Bida, Cisti and Nebbia Mastodon instances
AU - Sorci, Giuliana
T2 - Journal of Alternative & Community Media
AB - This article analyses recent developments of digital tech activism within the Italian hacker scene. Being characterized by hacktivism (the combination of hacking and politics), it first boomed in the early 2000s – engaging the anti-globalization movement, protests and counter-summits with projects like Indymedia and Autistici/Inventati. Later, it had a phase of fragmentation and an ‘evolution’, towards what Hassan and Staggenborg define as a ‘social movement community’. In this article, I will analyse what caused this ‘evolution’ and its composition, networks, frames and repertoires of action – to outline political and action perspectives pursued by these virtual ‘communities’. I will focus on those involving users of Mastodon.bida.im, Mastodon.cisti.org and Nebbia.fail independent social media, built by the radical tech collectives Bida (Bologna), Underscore (Turin) and Lab61 (Milan). From a methodological point of view, I will employ a qualitative research method: analysis of specialistic literature, blogs and documents edited by activists, semi-structured qualitative interviews and observant participation.
DA - 2021/04/01/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1386/joacm_00095_1
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 87
EP - 101
LA - en
SN - 2634-4726, 2206-5857
ST - New virtual communities for a renewed digital activism in Italy
UR - https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/joacm_00095_1
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:44:21
L1 - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giuliana-Sorci/publication/358095152_New_virtual_communities_for_a_renewed_digital_activism_in_Italy_A_case_study_of_the_Bida_Cisti_and_Nebbia_Mastodon_instances/links/61fe6120702c892cef0794d0/New-virtual-communities-for-a-renewed-digital-activism-in-Italy-A-case-study-of-the-Bida-Cisti-and-Nebbia-Mastodon-instances.pdf
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Hard-coded Censorship in Open Source Mastodon Clients-How Free is Open Source?
AU - Naskali, Juhani
C3 - Tethics
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DP - Google Scholar
SP - 86
EP - 98
UR - https://www.utupub.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/162401/FP_6.pdf?sequence=1
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:46:01
L1 - https://www.utupub.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/162401/FP_6.pdf?sequence=1
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Calling the User: Interpellation and Narration of User Subjectivity in Mastodon and Trans* Feminist Servers
AU - Niederberger, Shusha
T2 - A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 177
EP - 191
ST - Calling the User
UR - https://aprja.net/article/view/140449
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:46:03
L1 - https://aprja.net/article/download/140449/184385
ER -
TY - SLIDE
TI - The structure of a decentralized online social network: Mastodon
A2 - Zignani, Matteo
A2 - Gaito, Sabrina
A2 - Cherifi, Chantal
A2 - Rossi, Gian Paolo
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
M3 - poster
ST - The structure of a decentralized online social network
UR - https://hal.science/hal-02444909/
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:46:05
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Examination of Hard-Coded Censorship in Open Source Mastodon Clients
AU - Naskali, Juhani
C3 - ETHICOMP 2020
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DP - Google Scholar
SP - 333
UR - https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/413110611/Open_Access_Abstract.pdf#page=335
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:49:50
L1 - https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/413110611/Open_Access_Abstract.pdf#page=335
ER -
TY - THES
TI - Amosando o Lado Escuro das redes sociais: desenvolvemento do primeiro corpus en lingua galega para a detección de misoxinia en Twitter e Mastodon
AU - Álvarez Crespo, Lucía María
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
M3 - Traballo fin de grao
ST - Amosando o Lado Escuro das redes sociais
UR - https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/33351
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:51:26
ER -
TY - BOOK
TI - Manual breve de Mastodon
AU - Orihuela, José Luis
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Google Scholar
PB - Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
UR - https://www.eunsa.es/media/universidad_navarra/files/book-attachment-7790.pdf
Y2 - 2024/01/10/07:51:28
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - Dapping into the Fediverse: Analyzing What’s Trending on Mastodon Social
AU - Al-khateeb, Samer
AB - AbstractSocial media has changed the way we consume information daily. Most social media sites are centralized, meaning they are owned by a single entity, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. However, recently other forms of social media sites known as decentralized social networks are getting popular. These platforms are understudied. Hence in this exploratory research, one of the most prominent decentralized social platforms known as Mastodon Social has been studied. A review of what others have focused on when it comes to studying decentralized social networks has been conducted. Scripts to collect data from Mastodon Social are shared and analyses of the collected data with many valuable insights are provided.KeywordsMastodon SocialFederated networksDecentralized social networksToxicity analysisSentiments analysisSocial network analysisBots
C3 - Springer eBooks
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
SP - 101
EP - 110
UR - https://lens.org/106-154-663-277-138
ER -
TY - PCOMM
TI - Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge
AU - Brembs, Björn
AU - Lenardic, Adrian
AU - Chan, Leslie
AB - Letter to the Editor
DA - 2023/02/21/
PY - 2023
DP - www.nature.com
LA - en
ST - Mastodon
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
Y2 - 2024/01/10/09:41:58
L1 - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3.pdf
L2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
KW - Media
KW - Communication
KW - Institutions
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Twitter and Mastodon presence of highly-cited scientists
AU - Siebert, Maximilian
AU - Siena, Leonardo Maria
AU - Ioannidis, John P. A.
AB - Social media platforms have an increasing influence in biomedical and other disciplines of science and public health. While Twitter has been a popular platform for scientific communication, changes in ownership have led some users to consider migrating to other platforms such as Mastodon. We aimed to investigate how many top-cited scientists are active on these social media platforms, the magnitude of the migration to Mastodon, and correlates of Twitter presence. A random sample of 900 authors was examined among those who are at the top-2% of impact based on a previously validated composite citation indicator using Scopus data. Searches for their personal Twitter accounts were performed in early December 2022, and re-evaluations were performed at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, and 2 months (February 6, 2023). 262/900 (29.1%) of highly-cited scholars had Twitter accounts, and only 9/800 (1%) had Mastodon accounts. Female gender, North American and Australia locations, younger publication age, and clinical medicine or social science expertise correlated with higher percentages of Twitter use. The vast majority of highly-cited author users of Twitter had few followers and tweets. Only 6 had more than 10,000 followers and none had more than 100,000. One limitation of our study is that it is possible that some accounts, especially with Mastodon, could not be detected. However, the study suggests that Twitter remains the preferred social media platform for highly-cited authors, and Mastodon has not yet challenged Twitter’s dominance. Moreover, most highly-cited scientists with Twitter accounts have limited presence in this medium.
DA - 2023/04/24/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1101/2023.04.23.537950
DP - bioRxiv
LA - en
PB - bioRxiv
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.23.537950v1
Y2 - 2024/01/10/09:47:07
L1 - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2023/04/24/2023.04.23.537950.full.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Mastodon: Datenschutzfreundliche Twitter-Alternative
AU - Kelber, Ulrich
T2 - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD
DA - 2022/07/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s11623-022-1630-7
DP - Springer Link
VL - 46
IS - 7
SP - 412
EP - 412
J2 - Datenschutz Datensich
LA - de
SN - 1862-2607
ST - Mastodon
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-022-1630-7
Y2 - 2024/01/10/11:28:27
L1 - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11623-022-1630-7.pdf
ER -
TY - CHAP
TI - Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse
AU - Anderlini, Jacopo
AU - Milani, Carlo B.
T2 - University of Westminster Press
AB - Recently, following events at Cambridge Analytica that put commercial social media under scrutiny, a public debate emerged around corporate digital platforms focused not only on critically analysing their social, economic, political impact but on the creation of alternative spaces of digital communication, organisation and conviviality. The key focus of this chapter is the reappropriation of technology intended as a way to conceive ‘appropriate’ social and technical organisation in opposition to the forms of exploitation and capture put in place by digital platforms. How do practices of reappropriation occur to prefigure new sociotechnical imaginaries and to shape digital spaces and infrastructures, social interactions and relations? In which ways does they engender forms of mutualism? What are the conditions required for the emergence of practices for the reappropriation of technology? What are the configurations, representations and encounters that constitute emerging digital communities?In this chapter, these questions will be examined taking into account the constitution and development of the ‘Fediverse’ – more than a social network, a network of networks – focusing on a digital community that has been at the centre of the authors’ digital ethnographical work since 2018. This case study will be analysed through different standing points and dichotomic tensions: infrastructure (de-centralisation/distribution), design (mutual conditioning/mutual aid), governance (heteronomy/autonomy).
DA - 2022/11/01/
PY - 2022
DP - www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk
LA - en
ST - Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation
UR - https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/chapters/e/10.16997/book54.m/
Y2 - 2024/01/10/11:28:37
L1 - https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/chapters/10.16997/book54.m/download/5846/
L2 - https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/chapters/e/10.16997/book54.m/
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Fediverse’s evolution from the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory | Fast Capitalism
AU - Meza-Cano, José Manuel
AU - González-Santiago, Edith
AB - This paper begins by mentioning some problems we found in social networks belonging to corporations such as Facebook and Twitter, emphasizing the inclusion of algorithmic timelines, the verticality of decisions that respond to market logic, and the privacy of users’ data. This research gives rise to presenting open-source social networks as a democratic and safer alternative for their users. These social networks shape the Fediverse, the result of the union of the words Federation- Universe, and whose history and evolution we describe. We expose the main postulates of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) for using this theory to conduct the Fediverse analysis, characterizing it as an Activity System, and thus, investigating the foremost tensions, reasons for change, and results. Among the findings of this analysis are: the preference of users for specific interfaces, the shift in the choice of social networks by users, the suggestions and opinions of the user community, and their influence on the programming development of social networks, promotion, or abandonment of projects by developers and change in the protocols used to connect the networks. We conclude this work by emphasizing that the CHAT allows this type of systemic analysis to be carried out from the critical moments and historical milestones of a system in constant change, such as the Fediverse. Furthermore, the proposal is made that universities are those institutions with prestige and infrastructure that can promote research, criticism, and reflection on the use of social networks for the benefit of users of the social Internet. Keywords: activity system; psychology; social networks; technological mediation.
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu
LA - en-US
UR - https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/view/481
Y2 - 2024/01/10/11:28:58
L1 - https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/download/481/547
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - The Footprints of a “Mastodon”: How a Decentralized Architecture Influences Online Social Relationships
AU - Zignani, Matteo
AU - Quadri, Christian
AU - Gaito, Sabrina
AU - Cherifi, Hocine
AU - Rossi, Gian Paolo
T2 - IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
AB - Decentralized online social networks (DOSNs) have recently emerged as a viable solution to preserve the users' privacy and ensure higher users' control over the contents they publish. However, little is known about the backlashes that the decentralized organization and management of these platforms may have on the overlaid social network. This paper fills the gap. Specifically, we investigate how a decentralized architecture based on distributed servers impacts the structure of the users' neighborhood and their ego-networks. Our analysis relies on social data gathered from the decentralized micro-blogging platform Mastodon, the newest and fastest-growing decentralized alternative to Twitter. Our findings highlight that the social network supported by each server, namely instance, has a specific footprint in terms of degree distribution and clustered structure of the ego-networks of its members. Further, how users connect to people hosted in other instances is heavily bound by the server they are in. Moreover, users who tend to establish relationships in outer instances prefer to use a bunch of servers. Finally, we show that the ego-networks of the users are more clustered within the instance boundary, i.e. triangles are more likely to form among members of the same instance. All these findings suggest that the decentralization drives the social network to a structure that can be potentially very different from the usual one typical of centralized online social networks. Thus, the architecture of a DOSN is a factor developers and researchers should take into account when designing this kind of social platforms.
C3 - IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
DA - 2019/04//
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845221
DP - IEEE Xplore
SP - 472
EP - 477
ST - The Footprints of a “Mastodon”
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8845221
Y2 - 2024/01/10/11:29:08
L1 - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8845221&ref=aHR0cHM6Ly9pZWVleHBsb3JlLmllZWUub3JnL2RvY3VtZW50Lzg4NDUyMjE=
L2 - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8845221
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon
AU - Cava, Lucio La
AU - Aiello, Luca Maria
AU - Tagarelli, Andrea
T2 - Scientific Reports
AB - The migration of Twitter users to Mastodon following Elon Musk’s acquisition presents a unique opportunity to study collective behavior and gain insights into the drivers of coordinated behavior in online media. We analyzed the social network and the public conversations of about 75,000 migrated users and observed that the temporal trace of their migrations is compatible with a phenomenon of social influence, as described by a compartmental epidemic model of information diffusion. Drawing from prior research on behavioral change, we delved into the factors that account for variations of the effectiveness of the influence process across different Twitter communities. Communities in which the influence process unfolded more rapidly exhibit lower density of social connections, higher levels of signaled commitment to migrating, and more emphasis on shared identity and exchange of factual knowledge in the community discussion. These factors account collectively for 57% of the variance in the observed data. Our results highlight the joint importance of network structure, commitment, and psycho-linguistic aspects of social interactions in characterizing grassroots collective action, and contribute to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms that drive processes of behavior change of online groups.
DA - 2023/12/07/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-48200-7
DP - www.nature.com
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 21626
J2 - Sci Rep
LA - en
SN - 2045-2322
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7
Y2 - 2024/01/10/11:43:21
L1 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7.pdf
KW - Information technology
KW - Computer science
ER -
TY - CONF
TI - More of the Same? A Study of Images Shared on Mastodon’s Federated Timeline
AU - Nobre, Gabriel P.
AU - Ferreira, Carlos H. G.
AU - Almeida, Jussara M.
A2 - Hopfgartner, Frank
A2 - Jaidka, Kokil
A2 - Mayr, Philipp
A2 - Jose, Joemon
A2 - Breitsohl, Jan
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
AB - We offer a first analysis of image content sharing on the Mastodon platform, one of the currently most popular decentralized online social networks. Our study relies on a dataset of toots gathered from a federated timeline (hosted in mastodon.social), consisting of over 1 million images shared by more than 100 thousand users. We focus on two key aspects: (i) profiling image content in terms of presence of explicit content (e.g., violence) and (ii) exploring potential channels between Mastodon instances as well as between Mastodon and the rest of the Web. Our main results offer evidence of a large amount of explicit content shared in the environment as well as the frequent presence of such content on the Web. In addition, we estimate a consistent flow of images (including explicit content) from other Web platforms (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) to Mastodon. Finally, we also observed several image co-sharing user communities, ultimately bridging instance boundaries.
C1 - Cham
C3 - Social Informatics
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_11
DP - Springer Link
SP - 181
EP - 195
LA - en
PB - Springer International Publishing
SN - 978-3-031-19097-1
ST - More of the Same?
L1 - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-031-19097-1_11.pdf
KW - Information dissemination
KW - Decentralized online social networks
KW - Images
KW - Mastodon
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
AU - Struett, Thomas
AU - Sinnreich, Aram
AU - Aufderheide, Patricia
AU - Gehl, Rob
AB - In the wake of recent high-profile crises at commercial social media platforms such as Twitter and Reddit, the “fediverse” has gained both adoption and visibility as a viable non-commercial alternative for individuals, communities, and institutions to develop channels of public communication, dialogue, and debate. In this paper, we draw upon illustrative examples from the history of digital civic discourse, and identify six ways in which history shows us how the potential benefits of the fediverse are at risk of being subverted. We will discuss several specific potential threats to these spaces of civil discourse, including: challenges inherent to distributed governance, commercial platform capture, inclusive access, moderation at scale, reputational assaults by commercial competitors, and the tacitly neoliberal techno-Romanticism familiar from previous digital innovations. These threats must be addressed collectively and proactively by key fediverse stakeholders, in an ecology whose ruling values are non-commercialism, decentralization, open source, free association, and wariness of traditional governance.
CY - Rochester, NY
DA - 2023/10/10/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.4598303
DP - Social Science Research Network
LA - en
ST - Can This Platform Survive?
UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4598303
Y2 - 2024/01/10/12:06:26
KW - mastodon
KW - platform governance
KW - social media
KW - alternative social media
KW - federated social media
ER -
TY - GEN
TI - Section 230 and the Fediverse: Instances of Mastodon's Immunity and Liability
AU - Ahooja, Raghav
AB - “Code is law,” scholar Lawrence Lessig famously propounded. Technological architecture defines how speech is expressed. Different social media platforms shape discourse differently by virtue of their designs. Be it by allowing users to send ‘Friend requests’ on Facebook, by fixing the character count of Tweets on Twitter, or by prescribing the maximum duration of a TikTok video - such apps shape speech, its limits, its transgressions, and its parlance. Since this space is ever-evolving, platforms with newer technological architecture continue to disrupt the expression of speech, and the newest kid on the block is Mastodon - a decentralized platform on the Fediverse - that provides its users the ability to manage and moderate their own servers (called ‘instances’) on which third-party content can be hosted. Mastodon by virtually allowing anyone to operate their own Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube equivalent empowers its users in new ways. Yet, with great power comes great responsibility. Such an innovation raises a whole set of questions about Mastodon’s liability and immunity at various levels, especially in relation to laws such as FOSTA/SESTA. In this paper, I discuss the potential answers to these questions.
CY - Rochester, NY
DA - 2023/04/17/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.4421665
DP - Social Science Research Network
LA - en
ST - Section 230 and the Fediverse
UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4421665
Y2 - 2024/01/10/12:07:39
KW - policy
KW - platform governance
KW - social media
KW - Mastodon
KW - content moderation
KW - Fediverse
KW - Section 230
KW - Communications Decency Act
KW - decentralized
KW - FOSTA/SESTA
KW - immunity
KW - law
KW - liability
KW - sex trafficking
ER -
TY - NEWS
TI - Should I join Mastodon? A scientists’ guide to Twitter’s rival
AU - Stokel-Walker, Chris
T2 - Nature
AB - 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.
DA - 2022/11/10/
PY - 2022
DP - www.nature.com
LA - en
ST - Should I join Mastodon?
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7
Y2 - 2024/01/10/12:09:07
L2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7
KW - Society
KW - Technology
KW - Scientific community
KW - Software
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Toxicology Rounds: Is Mastodon the New Twitter for EM?
AU - Gussow, Leon
T2 - Emergency Medicine News
AB - An abstract is unavailable.
DA - 2023/02//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1097/01.EEM.0000920072.89407.2d
DP - journals.lww.com
VL - 45
IS - 2
SP - 12
LA - en-US
SN - 1054-0725
ST - Toxicology Rounds
UR - https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2023/02000/Toxicology_Rounds__Is_Mastodon_the_New_Twitter_for.11.aspx?context=LatestArticles
Y2 - 2024/01/10/12:14:04
L2 - https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2023/02000/Toxicology_Rounds__Is_Mastodon_the_New_Twitter_for.11.aspx?context=LatestArticles
ER -