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(26) Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media [Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara & Yan Shvartzshnaider] (2025) arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

(27) "A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks [Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito] (2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919

(28) Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse [Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide & Rob Gehl] (2025) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

(29) ORCID and the Fediverse: What Can We Do with Public Information? [Julian Fietkau] (2025) fietkau.science/orcid_fedivers

(30) Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration [Sean Ward, Jenny L. Davis, Adrian Mackenzie & Paul K. Jones] (2025) doi.org/10.1002/symb.1244

(31) The journalists’ exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms [Yee Man Margaret Ng & Rik Ray] (2025) doi.org/10.1177/14614448251321

(32) Periodismo y redes sociales alternativas del Fediverso: estudio de la presencia de medios nativos digitales y matriciales en Mastodon [Alberto Quian, Xosé López-García & Xosé Soengas-Pérez] (2025) doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2025-2338

(33) Labour pains: Content moderation challenges in Mastodon growth [Charlotte Spencer-Smith, Tales Tomaz] (2025) doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.1831

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arXiv.orgTrust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social MediaDecentralized social media protocols enable users in independent, user-hosted servers (i.e., instances) to interact with each other while they self-govern. This community-based model of social media governance opens up new opportunities for tailored decision-making about information flows -- i.e., what user data is shared to whom and when -- and in turn, for protecting user privacy. To better understand how community governance shapes privacy expectations on decentralized social media, we conducted a semi-structured interview with 23 users of the Fediverse, a decentralized social media network. Our findings illustrate important factors that shape a community's understandings of information flows, such as rules and proactive efforts from admins who are perceived as trustworthy. We also highlight ''governance frictions'' between communities that raise new privacy risks due to incompatibilities in values, security practices, and software. Our findings highlight the unique challenges of decentralized social media, suggest design opportunities to address frictions, and outline the role of participatory decision-making to realize the full potential of decentralization.
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Santiago

Fetching all the various sources you all kindly pointed out, this is a quick and dirty list of all research papers that mention fediverse or mastodon words in their titles ordered by year. There are several authors that have published several papers. It would be awesome to reach them on their mastodon/fediverse accounts. If you know them or you are one of them, poke a mention or reply, i would like to follow you.

(1) Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network [Diana Zulli, Miao Liu & Robert Gehl] (2020) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

(2) Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2021) arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15473

(3) New virtual communities for a renewed digital activism in Italy: A case study of the Bida, Cisti and Nebbia Mastodon instances [Giuliana Sorci] (2021) doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00095_1

(4) Network Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy inMastodon User Behaviors [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2022) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/a

(5) Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques [Chanel Robin, Eva Giard, Stéphane Couture] (2022) cirst.uqam.ca/publications/151

(6) CHAPTER 12 Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse [Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani] (2022) jstor.org/stable/j.ctv319wpvm.

(7) Creating a City for All of Us: The Possible Role of the Fediverse in Archiving Civic Urban Memory [Pen Lister] (2023) link.springer.com/article/10.1

(8) Information Consumption and Boundary Spanning in Decentralized Online Social Networks: the case of Mastodon Users [Lucio La Cava & Andrea Tagarelli] (2023) arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15752

(9) Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse [Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola & Gareth Tyson] (2023) arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05915

(10) Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration [Haris Bin Zia, Jiahui He, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Nishanth Sastry & Gareth Tyson] (2023) doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.14

(11) Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon [Matthew N. Nicholson, Brian C. Keegan & Casey Fiesler] (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606970

(12) Calling the User. Interpellation and Narration of User Subjectivity in Mastodon and Trans*Feminist Servers [Shusha Niederberger] (2023) doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v12i1.14

(13) Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know [Roel Roscam Abbing & Robert W. Gehl] (2023) doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.

(14) Exploring user perceived beliefs, evaluations, and gratifications in ASM: applying expectancy-value approach for U&G theory on Mastodon instance Liker.social [Kai Hung Liao] (2023) doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.128

(15) The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse [Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis & Aaron Shaw] (2024) arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

(16) An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types [Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, Mirela Riveni] (2024) link.springer.com/content/pdf/

(17) Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks:A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse [Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro] (2024) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/a

(18) Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks [Ramón Salaverría, María-Pilar Martínez-Costa & Clara González Tosat] (2024) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

(19) Moderating the Fediverse. Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media from Part III - Platform Governance [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2024) cambridge.org/core/books/media

(20) From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse [Skip de Mönnink] (2024) studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.

(21) Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse [Jamie A. Theophilos] (2024) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

(22) Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances [Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, Chris Martens] (2024) doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0

(23) Análisis de la investigación sobre el Fediverso: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma y otras de sus plataformas [Pedro Lázaro-Rodríguez] (2024) doi.org/10.3145/infonomy.24.017

(24) "Don’t research us" - How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics [Marco Wähner, Annika Deubel, Johannes Breuer & Katrin Weller] (2024) doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-008

(25) Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse [Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro & Gareth Tyson] (2025) arxiv.org/abs/2501.05871

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ClumsyGolem

Anime Faces A to Z: 'G' is for Gon!

Pretty happy with this one, I think it's ever so slightly out of proportion, but I'm really impressed with how quickly it come together! Had it done in just over 2 hours, which is really fast for me xP

I'm definitely finding a workflow that works for me :)

#Anime#AnimeAtoZ#ArtABCs
Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

With permission I wore my festival outfit (甚平, jimbei) to give a presentation in Kyōto on "Gion Matsuri and Japanese Festivals"! After dressing professionally for 105 different academic presentations, this was the first time to cosplay! I love trying new or mischievous things. Cosplay was actually one of the discussion topics along with traditional Japanese clothing. There was a balance of lecture, group discussions, and many questions that I had welcomed. Many of the California college students, here briefly to study abroad, sincerely thanked me afterwards, with words like "awesome." I went all out to prepare the slideshow and to delight the audience with both depth and humor.

Slideshow: researchgate.net/publication/3
or academia.edu/130493544
or Japanese annotated (日本語の説明):
researchmap.jp/waoe/presentati

#Japan #Kyoto #festival #cosplay #clothing #California #study #presentation #religion #Shinto #float
@religion @japan

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ClumsyGolem

Anime Faces A to Z: 'F' is for Frieren!

Really happy with this one, I don't know if it's because I took an involuntary break from illustration, or because we were discussing it on stream, but I felt I was really able to let go and embrace the imperfections making inking much less stressful. The textured pen was also a joy to use, will definitely come back to that one. :)

#Anime#ArtABCs#AnimeAtoZ
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