I am writing a research paper about #fediverse . I am almost at the deadline and I would greatly appreciate if you could comment down
• the difficulties you faced in the fediverse
• challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them
• your experience in fediverse
• feedbacks about fediverse
• your suggestions to improve
• setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.
[Update] I created a form to submit your responses
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could participate in the survey I created for my research about #fediverse . it won’t take much time and it is hosted on privacy friendly service #cryptpad . all responses are anonymized. You don’t have to answer all questions. Fill as much you can and submit when you had enough. The survey link : https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/LyJcsEgXPzaWJtwXXsGq4uoGwK6C+VzujXC6Wrz3YqI/
“Almost at the deadline” and starting to collect data. Sounds familiar.
What’s your research question? Your list of questions seem quite unfocused and broad.
Sorry, but your questions are difficult to understand. Could you please clarify what you are researching? The fediverse isn’t some metaphysical thing.
What is your curiosity?
I’m just doing a literature review about decentralized social media, nothing much. But I would like to include some suggestions the end to make fediverse better. So I want to identify some problems you guys facing when using Lemmy, mastodon, pixelfed, peertube, etc and your suggestions to make them better
I am on Mastodon, Lemmy and PixelFed.
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Difficulties: On Mastodon I had two accounts on different instances. It took some some to decide which to keep and which to deactivate. Not a big problem, as I am not a very active user.
I’ve been using Lemmy since the early days. It was harder to choose an instance on Lemmy than Mastodon.
I have never managed to find a PeerTube instance that I could use for uploading.
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Challenges: I have never really spent time trying to attract users. When describing it to some people they liked the idea, but wouldn’t move to a social network where their friends were not.
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Experience: Positive overall. I have had exactly one confusing problem with another user. I will say that there are some strongly opinionated people on Fedi. Instances do create groupthink which can lead to biases, but I was aware of that before onboarding.
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Feedback: The Fediverse is a good social network for many different people. It appears to me that Fedi can be quite welcoming to neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities. There is a political leaning, at least on the instances I see. I wouldn’t say there is a slant, but when opposing opinions collide, wording matters because #FediBlock is a thing. I am of the opinion that improvement should come about organically. Forcing changes is pointless, unless you are a developer who can suggest a way to make the improvement a reality.
New users to Mastodon (and Fedi as a whole) need to understand that “quote-tooting” isn’t a thing, monetisation isn’t a goal, and it will never be a 1:1 clone of Twitter, Reddit or Instagram.
What kind of Mickey Mouse data collection effort is this?
If you can’t be bothered to make a form, al least format your post so I can read the questions.
I did the survey but please would you mind identifying yourself and linking to the research paper when it’s ready?
