Fediverse Explorations

An analysis of Mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types ^PDF link.springer.com

A time-based dynamics analysis of various Mastodon instances.

📅 September 7, 2024 by Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, and Mirela Riveni

Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances ^PDF www.convivial.tools

A text analysis of 351 privacy policies and a survey of 104 Mastodon administrators.

📅 August 22, 2024 by Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, and Chris Martens

Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers fediverse-governance.github.io

Research report on Fediverse microblogging server governance: risks and mitigations, moderation, server leadership, federated diplomacy, and governance tooling.

📅 August 20, 2024 by Erin Kissane, Darius Kazemi

“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism wedistribute.org

Nearly half a million dollars raised.

📅 August 6, 2024 by Sean Tilley

Verification in the fediverse stefanbohacek.com

Analysis of the link verification feature in the fediverse.

📅 July 26, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

A scatter chart showing several popular fediverse servers laid out on a grid, with x axis representing number of registered users, and y axis representing the number of custom emoji on each server. The data point for mstdn.social is highlighted showing the corresponding data and a prompt to click the data point to browse the emoji.

Custom fediverse emoji stefanbohacek.com

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

📅 July 12, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

The phrase 'ignore all previous instructions' repeating over and over, in caps.

Ignore all previous instructions stefanbohacek.com

A look at a meme's journey through the fediverse.

📅 June 28, 2024 by Stefan Bohacek

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

The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter arxiv.org

A look at the dynamics of the migration of people in academia from Twitter to Mastodon.

📅 June 6, 2024 by Xinyu Wang, Sarah Rajtmajer, and Sai Koneru

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

Mapping Fediverse Communities fedidevs.com

A look at how people use micro-blogging for knowledge sharing.

📅 April 3, 2024 by Newsmast

Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know www.cell.com

Key differences between the fediverse and X.

📅 January 12, 2024 by Roel Roscam Abbing, Robert W. Gehl

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

Alt Text Health Check image accessibility reports stefanbohacek.com

A series of reports looking at the rate of images posted with and without 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