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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
submitted 6 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 7 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 minutes ago

this. thank you

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 points 1 hour ago

This justifies the amount of time I spend on Lemmy so I'll believe it without so much as clicking the link

[–] laxe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 30 minutes ago

I thought water wasn’t wet, just the stuff it touches.

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 3 minutes ago

i have only heard the term "wrongthink" used by those who participate in pretty not cool places.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Well, maybe you subscribe to the wrong subs on the wrong instance?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Alternately: a 1 hour old account may not be entirely truthful about why they were banned

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 29 minutes ago

Touché

[–] card797@champserver.net 34 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

You wanna go back to BBS? Cause I'll go back to BBS

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago

On Tor or I2P

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 2 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

To whom? Cambridge students?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

If those Cambridge students could read they'd be very upset.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)