Fediverse Explorations

Studies, research papers, and informal polls that explore the fediverse.

Collected by @stefan.

All links listed below lead to external sites.

A pair of two charts: a bar chart showing number of boosts per account for the top 100 most boosted accounts, and a bar pie chart showing the breakdown of original and boosted posts, heavily skewed towards boost.

Lisa Melton: The fediverse's own algorithm stefanbohacek.com

What it takes to power fediverse's curation system.

📅 June 18, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A graph chart with nodes representing different fediverse servers. The servers that are the focus of this study are shown in size based on the total number of users on instances blocking each server.

Fediverse domain blocks stefanbohacek.com

Exploring fediverse domain blocks, an important tool that keeps the fediverse safe.

📅 June 16, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A color-tinted screenshot of a scatter chart showing the distribution of fediverse posts from April 23, 2023 to June 10, 2024 based on the number of likes. Most of the data is clustered in the 0 to 1,000 likes range, with a few posts in the 2,000 to 3,000 likes range, and even fewer above that. 5 posts are in the top 5,000 to 6,000 range, most of those posted in July 2023.

Searching for popular posts on federated social media.

📅 June 6, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A color-tinted collage of a very long bar chart that was cut up to make each section with its title visible.

Fediverse activity report #1 stefanbohacek.com

Is the activity in the fediverse slowing down? Maybe a little!

📅 June 5, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A tinted screenshot of a portion of the dataset rendered as a table, with one of the rows filled with bar charts representing data in the given column.

Impact of fediverse clients on the use of alt text stefanbohacek.com

Analyzing the ways fediverse apps handle image descriptions.

📅 May 14, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

How long does a Mastodon post take to federate between servers? stefanhayden.com

How long does it take a fediverse post to reach its audience?

📅 May 10, 2024 by Stefan Hayden

A tinted screenshot of a poll from the article.

Data on sending a post into the fediverse stefanbohacek.com

How long does it take a fediverse post to reach its audience?

📅 May 8, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A tinted screenshot showing results of the main poll from the article on the various ways people fund their fediverse communities.

The ways we keep the fediverse sustainable stefanbohacek.com

Go buy some stickers and plushies!

📅 May 8, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

How many fediverse servers know about my server? stefanbohacek.com

How federated is my fediverse server?

📅 May 6, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A cropped screenshot of a graph chart showing relationship between my bots and their followers. Each bot is represented by a circle corresponding to the number of followers, and is connected to dots representing them.

Analyzing fediverse followers stefanbohacek.com

A look at 6,000+ people following my 40+ creative bots.

📅 April 4, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A tinted screenshot of three posts made by the @AltTextHealthCheck bot showing breakdowns of the data it collects.

Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #1 stefanbohacek.com

Looking at a growing trend of images being posted without a description.

📅 October 26, 2023 by Stefan Bohacek

X/Twitter Migration Report www.deweysquare.com

The #TwitterMigration continues as users, developers, and technologies are migrating away from increasing chaos and toxicity on Twitter and toward newer, and more open, platforms.

📅 October 12, 2023 by Tim Chambers

How far did my post go on the Fediverse? shkspr.mobi

I wrote a moderately popular post on Mastodon. Lots of people shared it.

📅 September 26, 2023 by Terence Eden

A tinted screenshot of an unlabeled scatter chart, with most data points grouped on the right.

Analyzing the registration date of 7,925 fediverse domains stefanbohacek.com

It's a good time to be a domain registrar.

📅 May 23, 2023 by Stefan Bohacek

A tinted screenshot of two charts, one showing the popularity of various fediverse platforms (with Mastodon far ahead of the rest), and the other chart showing distribution of domain creation dates, mostly clustered around 2023.

Exploring your fediverse connections stefanbohacek.com

Learning about fediverse servers I'm connected to.

📅 May 22, 2023 by Stefan Bohacek

Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study papers.ssrn.com

What are migration patterns, how different platforms impact user behaviors, and how migrated users settle in the migration process.

📅 May 16, 2023 by Ujun Jeong, Paras Sheth, Anique Tahir, Faisal Alatawi, H. Russell Bernard, and Huan Liu

Mastodon Instances with Software Developers fedidevs.com

Which Mastodon instances have the most software developer accounts.

📅 May 16, 2023 by Anže Pečar

Section 230 and the Fediverse: The 'Instances' of Mastodon's Immunity and Liability papers.ssrn.com

Questions about Mastodon's liability and immunity at various levels.

📅 May 2, 2023 by Raghav Ahooja

A netizen's guide to Mastodon and the fediverse stefanbohacek.com

Learning about the fediverse from the people who use it.

📅 March 2, 2023 by Stefan Bohacek

A tinted collage showing bots featured in the article.

Exploring the bots people make and follow in the fediverse stefanbohacek.com

A follow-up to my article on the most popular Twitter bots.

📅 December 22, 2022 by Stefan Bohacek

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