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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study

Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says…

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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
- It's my opinion too
Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.
- If those Cambridge students could read they'd be very upset.
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
  
  Well, maybe you subscribe to the wrong subs on the wrong instance?

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