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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 74 points 21 hours 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 14 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for reading the article

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

Thank you for your service. o7

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

this. thank you

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 21 points 22 hours 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 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

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

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

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

On Tor or I2P

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

To whom? Cambridge students?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] laxe@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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 1 points 21 hours 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 0 points 20 hours 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 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago

Touché

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours 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 3 points 13 hours 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.