The study talks to 16 Mastodon admins who got to say what they thought Mastodon did. It’s not really a study, it’s just a survey. Being posted here is just confirmation bias. For Mastodon to increase citizen empowerment, there has to be something measured and a control group that isn’t on Mastodon.
From the abstract
In this paper, following a pre-study survey, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 Mastodon instance administrators, including those who host instances to support marginalised and stigmatised communities
You really have to read beyond the headline. This isn’t Reddit.
Thank you for reading the article
Thank you for your service. o7
this. thank you
Message boards on private servers. Ftw
You wanna go back to BBS? Cause I’ll go back to BBS
Send me back to IRC in its prime, please I beg you!
On Tor or I2P
This justifies the amount of time I spend on Lemmy so I’ll believe it without so much as clicking the link
Do we also need a study that water is wet?
Idk if this is really true.
People get their accounts banned on this site for wrongthink constantly
This shit isn’t meaningfully different than reddit
i have only heard the term “wrongthink” used by those who participate in pretty not cool places.
edit: did I get downvoted for wrongthink? lol
I got my last account on here banned for telling a woman she was dumb for voting for trump
You’re thinking of the wrong wrongthink
there’s too much stuff to keep track of, man. all I know is that when I see that term, it sets off a red flag in my brain.
