Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here's what you need to know.
expert_opinion · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 38264715.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100914 and PMC identifier 10801199.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
Since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.