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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] upside431 25 points 1 month ago

Thank you for reading the article

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your service. o7

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

this. thank you

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

[–] kernelle 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Send me back to IRC in its prime, please I beg you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

On Tor or I2P

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To whom? Cambridge students?

[–] FenrirIII 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] laxe 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DeadWorldWalking 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] DeadWorldWalking 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Touché

[–] DeadWorldWalking 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Banned from lemmy.world for telling a woman she was "Dumber than shit" for voting for trump and then defending him in a thread here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Banned from lemmy.world for telling a woman she was "Dumber than shit"

Well, that's not called wrongthink, that's just being an asshole.