Year,Title,Authorship,Language,Type,Link
2024,Safeguarding Decentralized Social Media: LLM Agents for Automating Community Rule Compliance,"Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.08963
2024,Periodismo y redes sociales alternativas del Fediverso: estudio de la presencia de medios nativos digitales y matriciales en Mastodon,"Quian, Alberto; López-García, Xosé; Soengas-Pérez, Xosé",Spanish,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2025-2338
2024,"Public sentiment on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: insights from YouTube, Mastodon, and Google Trends","Mazzeo Rinaldi, Francesco; Miracula, Vincenzo; Picone, Antonio; Occhipinti, Ornella",English,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.1080/08898480.2024.2401339
2024,An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types,"Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova & Mirela Riveni ",English,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-024-01341-7
2024,"Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks","Salaverría, Ramón; Martínez-Costa, María-Pilar; González Tosat, Clara",English,Chapter,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2
2024,An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises,Henrique S. Xavier,English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.15383
2024,"Trouble in paradise? understanding Mastodon Admin's motivations, experiences, and challenges running decentralised social media","Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Wang, G., Johnston, S.-K., Chalhoub, G., Ross, T., Liu, D., Tinsman, C., Zhao, R., Van Kleek, M., & Shadbolt, N.",English,Conference paper,https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e9ea5d1-f02b-4f65-8f83-9a72e9e46213
2024,Análisis del cambio climático en Mastodon mediante técnicas de minería de datos y redes sociales,"Raduán Llopis, Victoria",Spanish,Final Degree Project,https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12880/8876
2024,“Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics,"Wähner, Marco; Deubel, Annika; Breuer, Johannes; Weller, Katrin",English,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00855-6
2024,Do Servers Matter on Mastodon? Data-driven Design for Decentralized Social Media,"Colglazier, Carl",English,Conference paper,https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2024_43.pdf
2024,Taming the Free: Content moderation in the Fediverse and the Role of the DSA ,"van Rijnswou, Emese; Verboom, Charlotte",English,Report,https://ssrn.com/abstract=4886386
2024,Decentralized Networks Growth Analysis: Instance Dynamics on Mastodon,"Sabo, Eduard; Riveni, Mirela; Karastoyanova, Dimka",English,Conference paper,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53503-1_30
2024,Trust and Safety Risks and Engineering Patterns Through the Lens of Issue Resolution: An Empirical Case Study in Mastodon and Diaspora,"Cramer, Geoffrey; Maxam III, William P.; Davis, James",English,Preprint,https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4768911
2024,Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study,"Jeong, Ujun; Sheth, Paras; Tahir, Anique; Alatawi, Faisal; Bernard, H. Russell; Liu, Huan",English,Conference paper,https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31348
2024,Automatización y mantenimiento de un servidor Mastodon,"Rodríguez-García, Marcos",Spanish,Final Degree Project,https://hdl.handle.net/10115/35039
2024,"A Kantian Right to Fediverse Access, Or: For a Digital Enlightenment on the Social Web","Bingemann, Jan Niklas",English,Journal Article,https://philarchive.org/rec/BINAKR
2024,"Mastodon gegen Twitter, Fediverse gegen Facebook – Was kann das dezentrale Kommunikationsnetz besser?","Welchering, Peter",German,Chapter,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44659-8_4
2024,Sistematična analiza decentraliziranih družbenih medijev,"Polančič, Gregor; Brdnik, Saša; Perša, Tomi",Slovenian,Book,https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/857
2024,An update on Rogue Scholar in the fediverse,"Fenner, Martin",English,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.53731/dnfg0-hge29
2024,Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory,"Lister, Pen; Norris, Trevor",English,Preprint,https://osf.io/te2ms
2024,Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances,Emma Tosch; Luis Garcia; Cynthia Li; Chris Martens,English,Conference paper,https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0138
2024,"Open-Source Software, Fediverse and Custom ROMs as Tools for a Sustainable Internet","S Rödiger, M Kögler, M Birkholz",English,Conference paper,https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan-Roediger/publication/381773235_Open-Source_Software_Fediverse_and_Custom_ROMs_as_Tools_for_a_Sustainable_Internet/links/667e59a5714e0b03152fd660/Open-Source-Software-Fediverse-and-Custom-ROMs-as-Tools-for-a-Sustainable-Internet.pdf
2024,Improving Content Moderation in the Fediverse,Anaobi IH,English,Thesis,https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/97538
2024,Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media (similar work in 2023),Alan Z. Rozenshtein,English,Chapter,https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009174411.019
2024,Time for Medicine and Public Health to Leave Platform X,Toomas Timpka,English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.2196/53810
2024,From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse,"Mönnink, Skip de",English,Master Thesis,https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46353
2024,Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks,"Lucio La Cava, Domenico Mandaglio, Andrea Tagarelli",English,Conference paper,https://doi.org/10.1145/3614419.3644013
2024,Das Fediverse: Social Media im Wandel,Mike Kuketz,German,Chapter,https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748944461-167
2024,Studying the Adoption of Mastodon: A Systematic Literature Review,Eduard Sabo and Tim Gesthuizen,English,Systematic review,https://hdl.handle.net/11370/39960f2e-7189-46b0-a896-89ded7d95364
2024,An Exploration of Decentralized Moderation on Mastodon,"Carlo Alberto Bono, Lucio La Cava, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri",English,Conference paper,https://doi.org/10.1145/3614419.3644016
2024,A Mastodon Corpus to Evaluate Federated Microblog Search,Matti Wiegmann; Jan Heinrich Reimer; Maximilian Ernst; Martin Potthast; Matthias Hagen; Benno Stein,English,Workshop,https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/wiegmann_2024a.pdf
2024,Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse,"Agarwal, V, Raman, A., Sastry, N.C., Abdelmoniem, A.M., Tyson, G., & Castro, I.",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.03048
2024,The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse,"Colglazier, Carl; TeBlunthuis, Nathan; Shaw, Aaron",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.02109
2024,"Análisis de la investigación sobre el Fediverso: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma y otras de sus plataformas [Analysis of the research about the Fediverse: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma and other fediverse platforms]","Lázaro-Rodríguez, Pedro",Spanish,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.3145/infonomy.24.017
2024,Everyone Everywhere All at Once: The Fediverse Problem,"Mahadeva, Nikhil ",English,Working paper,https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4716427
2024,"Showing your ass on Mastodon: Lossy distribution, hashtag activism, and public scrutiny on federated, feral social media ","Dunbar-Hester, Christina",English,Journal Article,https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i3.13367
2024,Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know,"Roscam Abbing, Roel; Gehl, Robert W.",English,Article (opinion),https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100914
2023,Amosando o Lado Escuro das redes sociais: desenvolvemento do primeiro corpus en lingua galega para a detección de misoxinia en Twitter e Mastodon,"Álvarez Crespo, Lucía María",Galician,Thesis (or Master Thesis),http://hdl.handle.net/2183/33351
2023,Consumo problemático de medios sociales. ¿Es el fediverso la solución?,"García Menéndez, Ángel",Spanish,Thesis (or Master Thesis),https://hdl.handle.net/10651/70432
2023,Business stealing in a decentralized social network-The case of Mastodon,"Dachert, Mathias",English,Thesis (or Master Thesis),https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recherche/sites/sciencespo.fr.ecole-recherche/files/Master_Thesis_Mathias_Dachert.pdf
2022,Adesão a redes sociais: Um estudo de caso da rede Mastodon,"Vasconcelos, António",Portuguese,Thesis (or Master Thesis),https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=pt-PT&user=O2P3mqIAAAAJ&citation_for_view=O2P3mqIAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C
2021,Applying Uses and Gratifications Theory to Investigate Social Media User's Motivations for Mastodon,"Wang, Mian",English,Thesis (or Master Thesis),http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623167544405036
2019,Supporting the portability of profiles using the blockchain in the mastodon social network,"Rossaro, Alessandra",English,Thesis (or Master Thesis),http://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/id/eprint/12436
2023,Section 230 and the Fediverse: Instances of Mastodon's Immunity and Liability,"Ahooja, Raghav",English,Preprint (SSRN),https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4421665
2023,Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse,"Struett, Thomas; Sinnreich, Aram; Aufderheide, Patricia; Gehl, Rob",English,Preprint (SSRN),https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4598303
2023,Academic# TwitterMigration to Mastodon: The Role of Influencers and the Open Science Movement,"Bittermann, André; Lauer, Tim; Peters, Fritz",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13062
2023,Twitter and Mastodon presence of highly-cited scientists,"Siebert, Maximilian; Siena, Leonardo Maria; Ioannidis, John P. A.",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.23.537950
2023,Uses and Gratifications of Alternative Social Media: Why do people use Mastodon?,"Lee, Kijung; Wang, Mian",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.01285
2023,Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study,"Jeong, Ujun; Sheth, Paras; Tahir, Anique; Alatawi, Faisal; Bernard, H. Russell; Liu, Huan",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.09196
2018,Multi-task dialog act and sentiment recognition on Mastodon,"Cerisara, Christophe; Jafaritazehjani, Somayeh; Oluokun, Adedayo; Le, Hoa",English,Preprint,https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1807.05013
2020,Decentralized Social Networks: Pros and Cons of the Mastodon Platform,"Shaw, Charlot R.",English,Other: seminary text,https://umm-csci.github.io/senior-seminar/seminars/spring2020/shaw.pdf
2023,"Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies: Lessons from Web3, the Fediverse, and beyond","Allen, Danielle; Lim, Woojin; Frankel, Eli; Simons, Joshua; Siddarth, Divya; Weyl, Glen",English,Other: report,https://philpapers.org/rec/ALLEOD
2018,The structure of a decentralized online social network: Mastodon,"Zignani, Matteo; Gaito, Sabrina; Cherifi, Chantal; Rossi, Gian Paolo",English,Other: poster,https://hal.science/hal-02444909/
2022,Should I join Mastodon? A scientists’ guide to Twitter’s rival,"Stokel-Walker, Chris",English,Other: news in Nature,https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03668-7
2023,"Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future","Braun, Joshua",English,Other: commentary (rounds),https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2208619
2023,Toxicology Rounds: Is Mastodon the New Twitter for EM?,"Gussow, Leon",English,Other: commentary,https://doi.org/10.1097/01.EEM.0000920072.89407.2d
2022,The environmental footprint of social media hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon,"Laser, Stefan; Pasek, Anne; Sørensen, Estrid; Hogan, Mel; Ojala, Mace; Fehrenbacher, Jens; Hepach, M.; Çelik, Leman; Ravi Kumar, K.",English,Journal article (review),https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/
2023,Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge,"Brembs, Björn; Lenardic, Adrian; Murray-Rust, Peter; Chan, Leslie; Irawan, Dasapta Erwin",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230207
2023,Software presentation: Rtoot. Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data,"Schoch, David; Chan, Chung-hong",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579231176678
2023,Calling the User: Interpellation and Narration of User Subjectivity in Mastodon and Trans* Feminist Servers,"Niederberger, Shusha",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v12i1.140449
2023,Fediverse’s evolution from the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory | Fast Capitalism,"Meza-Cano, José Manuel; González-Santiago, Edith",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.2023.002
2023,Twitter vs Mastodon vs What's going on with social media?,"Williams, Ethan",English,Journal article,https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.018398021849285
2023,"Exploring user perceived beliefs, evaluations, and gratifications in ASM: Applying expectancy-value approach for U&G theory on Mastodon instance Liker.social","Liao, Kai Hung",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1288614
2023,User Sentiments and Dynamics in the Decentralized Web: Reddit Migration’s Impact on Lemmy,"Nunes, Thatiany Andrade",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.33851/JMIS.2023.10.4.333
2023,Moderating the fediverse: Content moderation on distributed social media,"Rozenshtein, Alan Z.",English,Journal article,https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jfspl3&i=217
2023,The digital covenant: non-centralized platform governance on the mastodon social network,"Gehl, Robert W.; Zulli, Diana",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400
2023,Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon,"La Cava, Lucio; Aiello, Luca Maria; Tagarelli, Andrea",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48200-7
2022,Mastodon: Datenschutzfreundliche Twitter-Alternative,"Kelber, Ulrich",German,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-022-1630-7
2022,Information consumption and boundary spanning in decentralized online social networks: the case of mastodon users,"La Cava, Lucio; Greco, Sergio; Tagarelli, Andrea",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2022.100220
2021,"New virtual communities for a renewed digital activism in Italy: A case study of the Bida, Cisti and Nebbia Mastodon instances","Sorci, Giuliana",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00095_1
2021,Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon,"La Cava, Lucio; Greco, Sergio; Tagarelli, Andrea",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-021-00392-5
2020,"Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network","Zulli, Diana; Liu, Miao; Gehl, Robert",English,Journal article,https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820912533
2023,Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge,"Brembs, Björn; Lenardic, Adrian; Chan, Leslie",English,Correspondence (I considered it as journal article),https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00486-3
2020,Examination of Hard-Coded Censorship in Open Source Mastodon Clients,"Naskali, Juhani",English,Conference article (ext. Abstract),https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/413110611/Open_Access_Abstract.pdf#page=335
2024,Utilizing the Fediverse and AI-bots for Youth Engagement During COVID-19 in a Hybrid Preventative Intervention,"Cole, Mason; Gary, Kevin; Meier, Matt; Gonzales, Nancy; Pina, Armando; Stoll, Ryan",English,Conference article,https://hdl.handle.net/10125/106848
2023,Unveiling the Dark Side of Social Media: Developing the First Galician Corpus for Misogyny Detection on Twitter and Mastodon,"Álvarez Crespo, Lucía María; Castro, Laura M. ",English,Conference article,http://hdl.handle.net/2183/34240
2023,Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances,"Nicholson, Matthew N.; Keegan, Brian C; Fiesler, Casey",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606970
2023,Trust as the Elephant in the Room: Security Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networks with Mastodon,"Laux, Lea; ErdHodi, László; Selgrad, Kai",English,Conference article,https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/nikt/article/view/5653
2023,Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse,"Anaobi, Ishaku Hassan; Raman, Aravindh; Castro, Ignacio; Zia, Haris Bin; Ibosiola, Damilola; Tyson, Gareth",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583487
2023,Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration,"He, Jiahui; Zia, Haris Bin; Castro, Ignacio; Raman, Aravindh; Sastry, Nishanth; Tyson, Gareth",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3618257.3624819
2022,Dapping into the Fediverse: Analyzing What’s Trending on Mastodon Social,"Al-khateeb, Samer",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17114-7_10
2022,More of the Same? A Study of Images Shared on Mastodon’s Federated Timeline,"Nobre, Gabriel P.; Ferreira, Carlos H. G.; Almeida, Jussara M.",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_11
2022,Network analysis of the information consumption-production dichotomy in mastodon user behaviors,"La Cava, Lucio; Greco, Sergio; Tagarelli, Andrea",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19391
2022,Discovering the Landscape of Decentralized Online Social Networks through Mastodon,"La Cava, Lucio; Greco, Sergio; Tagarelli, Andrea",English,Conference article,https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3194/paper25.pdf
2021,The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma: the case for decentralised moderation,"Hassan, Anaobi Ishaku; Raman, Aravindh; Castro, Ignacio; Tyson, Gareth",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3488658.3493780
2021,Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web: the pleroma case,"Hassan, Anaobi Ishaku; Raman, Aravindh; Castro, Ignacio; Zia, Haris Bin; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Sastry, Nishanth; Tyson, Gareth",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3485983.3494838
2020,Hard-coded Censorship in Open Source Mastodon Clients-How Free is Open Source?,"Naskali, Juhani",English,Conference article,https://www.utupub.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/162401/FP_6.pdf?sequence=1
2019,Mastodon content warnings: Inappropriate contents in a microblogging platform,"Zignani, Matteo; Quadri, Christian; Galdeman, Alessia; Gaito, Sabrina; Rossi, Gian Paolo",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3262
2019,Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case,"Raman, Aravindh; Joglekar, Sagar; Cristofaro, Emiliano De; Sastry, Nishanth; Tyson, Gareth",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1145/3355369.3355572
2019,The Footprints of a “Mastodon”: How a Decentralized Architecture Influences Online Social Relationships,"Zignani, Matteo; Quadri, Christian; Gaito, Sabrina; Cherifi, Hocine; Rossi, Gian Paolo",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845221
2018,Follow the “mastodon”: Structure and evolution of a decentralized online social network,"Zignani, Matteo; Gaito, Sabrina; Rossi, Gian Paolo",English,Conference article,https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14988
2022,Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse,"Anderlini, Jacopo; Milani, Carlo B.",English,Book chapter,https://doi.org/10.16997/book54.m
2020,Seven theses on the fediverse and the becoming of FLOSS,"Mansoux, Aymeric; Roscam Abbing, Roel",English,Book chapter,https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1699767/FULLTEXT01.pdf
2022,Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques,"Robin, Chanel; Giard, Eva; Couture, Stéphane",French,Book (with ISBN),https://cirst2.openum.ca/files/sites/179/2022/11/CIRST_Note_2022-01.pdf
2023,Manual breve de Mastodon,"Orihuela, José Luis",Spanish,Book,https://www.eunsa.es/libro/manual-breve-de-mastodon_147414/
2023,Mastodon for Dummies,"Minnick, Chris; McCallister, Michael",English,Book,https://www.dummies.com/book/technology/social-media/general-social-media/mastodon-for-dummies-297020/
2022,Fediverse – so geht Social Media. Raus aus den Hassmedien,"Simon, Leena; Pietsch, Christian",German,Book,https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2966158