Stefanie KoglerDec 16, 2024

Mastodon #research 🚀

I’m working on my master’s thesis at the University of Vienna, and I’d love your input! My research focuses on sustaining long-term user activity on Mastodon, contributing to a more active Fediverse. If you have a few minutes, please take my short survey:
👉 https://sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonActivity/

Your thoughts will contribute to meaningful research. Feel free to boost this post so we can reach as many users as possible. Thank you so much! 🙌

#Mastodon #Survey #FediverseResearch

Questionnaire | page 1

Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Dec 17, 2024
@stefko hi Stefko. I answered your survey. But some of my answers may not be as informative as you'd like: I don't use Home or Local feeds, only lists and #, so I'm not so aware of noise on my own instance. I noted this as a comment at the end.
I'm more aware of trolls on other instances, and I block those accounts - though, often by the time I spot them, they've been blocked (good work, moderators).
Best wishes for your studies.
Deb
Show threadStefanie Kogler
@deborahh Thank you so much! :)
Dec 17, 2024 at 3:23pmWeb
Show threadAndreas KDec 29, 2024

@stefko
Technically, the instance feeds are broken, as Mastodon relies on users to tag their toots with the correct languages.

So the local "feeds" even if I filter them in the languages I read, contain quite a bit of language spam.

Understandable in a way as reliable language detection of short texts (say under 100 characters) is iffy. From professional experience it could be handled better, but the itch is not yet big enough to reactivate my ruby skills.
@deborahh