Updates to my #NCAAWBB model as we reach the Sweet Sixteen. Pulling for the 0.82% outcome!

#NCAAW #MarchMadness

Hello #IC2S2!

I'm presenting my work comparing newcomer retention on Mastodon servers and designing a server recommendation system at [11AM Friday] at the [Irvine Hall Green Room].

Thinking about multi-server aggregations and recommendation systems on decentralized online social networks like the #Fediverse.

Here we see an exploit: someone has created hundreds of fake accounts on different servers to spam the same tag.

#spam

I created a simple #QuartoPub template for #ic2s2.
@IC2S2

https://github.com/CarlColglazier/ic2s2_quarto

Mastodon has grown a lot over the last two months. Where are people setting up new accounts?

As might be expected, growth correlates with instance size (Matthew effect), but there's another part of the story: many people joined new instances that didn't even exist previously!