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! 🙌
@stefko Sounds like a great project! It's probably too late to add it now, but it would be interesting to know how the results break down in terms of people's gender, race, and tech experience.
I've got some discussion of barriers newcomers in the 2022/2023 wave faced in A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness, as well as links out to @kissane's outstanding work on this front.
And, for deeper background Mastodon: a partial history has a lot of discussion and links from the early days. So many of the issues that are current barriers were already identified back in 2017!
Stefanie Kogler
The Nexus of Privacy
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)