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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 103 points 1 day 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@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Thank you for reading the article

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your service. o7

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

this. thank you

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

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

[–] card797@champserver.net 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

On Tor or I2P

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

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

To whom? Cambridge students?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

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

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Touché

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 day 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.