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

@stefko Will the outputs be published on an #OpenAccess repository under a free license (like CC BY for text, CC-0 for data)?

@nemobis Hi! Thank you so much for your interest! The code for my computational analysis is already online and available as Open Access (it’s also linked at the end of the survey).

I’d love to share the results of the survey too, but I haven’t decided where to publish them yet. Do you have any recommendations?

@stefko @nemobis hello Stefanie. I agree with Nemo. As a data repository I recommend Zenodo, where your survey will share hard drives with the data of high-energy physics experiments in the Large Hadron Collider. I also believe Open Access is the only path consistent with asking for people's collaboration.

Following you here. Will you toot when your results are out?

@alberto_cottica @nemobis Hi! Yes I will publish my results as soon as I have them. Thank you for participating in my survey!
@stefko @nemobis of course you will publish, that's what academics do. The request is for you to ALSO write 3/4 toots with the link to the paper or thesis or preprint, even if, by then, you have lost interest on Mastodon as a social media platform. Unlike the publications, those toots will not help your career, and are only a small cost that you accept to show accountability to the people that provided you with data.