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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
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[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 111 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Thank you for reading the article

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your service. o7

[-] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

this. thank you

[-] card797@champserver.net 47 points 2 years ago

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 years ago

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[-] laxe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 2 years 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.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago

Touché

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

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.

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