“Almost at the deadline” and starting to collect data. Sounds familiar.
What’s your research question? Your list of questions seem quite unfocused and broad.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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Actually I just want to propose some suggestions to overcome current issues in decentralized social media to gain more involvement
Sorry, but your questions are difficult to understand. Could you please clarify what you are researching? The fediverse isn't some metaphysical thing.
What is your curiosity?
I'm just doing a literature review about decentralized social media, nothing much. But I would like to include some suggestions the end to make fediverse better. So I want to identify some problems you guys facing when using Lemmy, mastodon, pixelfed, peertube, etc and your suggestions to make them better
What kind of Mickey Mouse data collection effort is this?
If you can’t be bothered to make a form, al least format your post so I can read the questions.
:'(
I did the survey but please would you mind identifying yourself and linking to the research paper when it's ready?
Thank you. I will link the paper when it's done
The user @[email protected] is also doing research about Lemmy and the Reddit -> Lemmy migration:
Thank you very much sir. I should also try collecting data from a form
Yeah, you choose the correct methods. I'm not the one doing the research. But share your results with us if you can (and once you have them). 😀
That link doesn't work. Cryptpad says you should have used the "Share" button. "Link was copied from the browser's address bar and does not provide access to the document."
the difficulties you faced in the fediverse
Some networks are a bit confusing, like Misskey and Firefish. On Lemmy sometimes things don't federate as you'd expect them, like Mastodon <-> Lemmy. Even between different Lemmy instances sometimes things don't federate, so people on different instances will see different things on the same post. Not hard to get used to, overall, but it's there.
challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them
I'm not really inside that part of the fediverse. I enjoy Lemmy, and check Mastodon ocasionally. I guess an issue is that the people I follow on centralized social media aren't really on fediverse. Also, I think videos are a big issue. Video-based content is huge on the internet, but the fediverse video-sharing platforms just aren't very good.
your experience in fediverse
I've been having tons of fun. Lots of fun conversations and interesting topics to explore. Definitely positive.
feedbacks about fediverse
As I mentioned before I think video-based stuff really needs to improve. Some connectivity/federation issues also need to be ironed out. I also think chatroom style social-media would be great on the fediverse. Lemmy does that a little bit with the Chat comments, but it's not the same thing. I'm thinking something like Discord. Matrix can be federated I think, it does run AP, but it's not in practice AFAIK.
your suggestions to improve fediverse
Basically what I said above: focus on video content more and effective chatrooms.
setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.
Not sure what this means? Setbacks? I guess dumbasses talking shit online is an issue? A lot of people hear "fediverse, activitypub, blah blah blah" and decide it's "not for them". I guess it's hard to make people see the value of decentralized social media. And it's definitely difficult to make people let go of their virtual lives on other social media for something that's still a bit buggy and not used by a lot of people. Well there's a lot of people on the fediverse but a lot (A LOT) less than on other social media platforms.
This answer is very helpful. Thank you very much sir
Simply I just want to know are you happy about Lemmy, Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms? Or are they need to improve anything? If so what are your suggestions