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Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
submitted 19 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 65 points 13 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 11 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for reading the article

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Thank you for your service. o7

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

this. thank you

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 19 points 14 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 19 hours ago (2 children)

Message boards on private servers. Ftw

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 17 hours ago

On Tor or I2P

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To whom? Cambridge students?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

[–] laxe@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Do we also need a study that water is wet?

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 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 13 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 12 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 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 14 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 13 hours ago

Touché

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 13 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 5 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.