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Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon - Applied Network Science
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 Existing studies are however limited to an analysis of a relatively outdated sample of Mastodon focusing on few aspects at a user level, while several open questions have not been answered yet, especially at the instance level.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.
Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances | Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Federated social networking is an increasingly popular alternative to more traditional, centralized forms. Yet, this federated arrangement can lead to dramatically different experiences across the network. Using a sample of the most popular instances on the federated social network Mastodon, we characterize the types of rules present in this emerging space. We then compare these rules to those on Reddit, as an example of a different, less centralized space. Rules on Mastodon often pay particular attention to issues of harassment and hate — strongly reflecting the spirit of the Mastodon Covenant. We speculate that these rules may have emerged in response to problems of other platforms, and reflect a lack of support for instance maintainers. With this work, we call for the development of additional instance-level governance and technical scaffolding, and raise questions for future work into the development, values, and value tensions present in the broader federated social networking landscape.
Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances
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The Roundup – episode 20 – The Fediverse Report
Conversations about Meta's new project continue, a look at what's happening with federated forum software, new updates for Pixelfed and more!
Analysis of Fediverse Diversity in terms of Decentralization - Fediversity - SocialHub
Hello, I’m a Fedizen interested in monitoring the dynamics of the Fediverse in terms of centralization/decentralization, so I have performed a small analysis of the Fediverse diversity comparing two time points. I would like to share it with you in case you find it interesting, too. Also, any technical or conceptual feedback will be welcome. As source data, I have used data acquired by @spla consisting in users and active users (MAU measure) by each known server. From his server mastodont.cat,...
Anyone keen on a fediverse conference in 2023/24 - Meeting - SocialHub
Yes, ActivityPub for Administrations also used BBB and it was a good experience, great software.
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#Twitter post importing is coming to #Calckey! Which means you’ll soon be able to upload all your old Twitter posts to your Calckey account! @fediversenews@venera.social 📎
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Decentralization is what makes so many of the Fediverse’s unique features possible. And it can also...
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Twitter’s new CEO is Linda Yaccarino - The Verge
Twitter’s new CEO will leave product design and tech to Elon Musk.
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mekka okereke :verified:: "All of the posts on Mastodon a…" - Hachyderm.io
All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen... ...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 🙂🙃
Twitter has a new mystery CEO - The Verge
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Audio chat space for Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial, and Calckey