Since January, @kissane and I have been researching...

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

Like 20 August at 15:48 | Open on friend.camp

31 comments

NowWeAreAllTom

@darius @kissane Nice! I am looking forward to digging into this.

20 August at 15:53 | Open on labyrinth.social

KirstieJane

@darius @kissane obsessed with the title! #FediversalistPapers - love it!

Can’t wait to read - thank you for doing all this important work!

20 August at 15:59 | Open on fosstodon.org

Darius Kazemi

@KirstieJane @kissane haha we only went for it with the blog name; the study title is a lot drier :blobsobglasses:

20 August at 16:01 | Open on friend.camp

Dimitri Merejkowsky

@darius @KirstieJane @kissane

This rocks! Thank you for sharing

20 August at 16:13 | Open on mamot.fr

Darius Kazemi

I want to draw special attention to our Quick-Start Guide For Fediverse Governance Decisions. It is a collection of current best practices for server governance we found during our interview process. If you're an admin/mod, or thinking of becoming one, give it a read!

https://fediverse-governance.github.io/images/quick-start.pdf (PDF)

Also feel free to forward to any admins or mods in your life :AngelDevil:

20 August at 16:53 | Open on friend.camp

Simon Brooke

@darius Why is this PDF, when if it had been HTML (or even Markdown!) it would have been so much more readable for so many more people?

21 August at 7:09 | Open on mastodon.scot

Morten Frisch

@simon_brooke are you always this insufferable, or did you just not think before you wrote?

21 August at 12:21 | Open on sciences.social

Simon Brooke

@mortenfrisch I'm always this insufferable, particularly when people use unhelpful and disability-hostile data formats.

21 August at 12:30 | Open on mastodon.scot

Morten Frisch

@simon_brooke 🤡

21 August at 12:31 | Open on sciences.social

abekonge

@maiathecyberwitch were you working on something similar?

20 August at 17:05 | Open on sunbeam.city

Maia Kahlke Lorentzen

@abekonge yes 😊 we will publish soon

20 August at 17:12 | Open on helvede.net

abekonge

@maiathecyberwitch looooking forward to it :)

20 August at 17:14 | Open on sunbeam.city

maloki 🍍:ghostbat:

@darius @kissane I love how it's between about 80 and 2000. 🤣

20 August at 18:13 | Open on rage.love

Erin Kissane

@maloki @darius omg it's worse, we ended up with "80 to 11k, sort of"

20 August at 18:40 | Open on mas.to

sidereal

@darius @kissane Huh, this is actually the first I've heard of Hometown and I'm immediately super interested in it.

20 August at 18:42 | Open on kolektiva.social

Erin Kissane

@sidereal @darius Hometown is amazing.

20 August at 18:50 | Open on mas.to

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Irenes (many)

@darius @kissane oh nice!!!!!

20 August at 22:01 | Open on adhd.irenes.space

The Nexus of Privacy

Congrats, great to see it out in the world — and, outstanding job packaging it!
@darius @kissane

20 August at 22:08 | Open on infosec.exchange

SpaceLifeForm

@darius @kissane

Excellent research.

I highly recommend starting here:

https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

20 August at 22:57 | Open on infosec.exchange

nigini

@fediforum You probably want these folks on your (un)schedule talking about their work: @darius @kissane

20 August at 23:27 | Open on social.coop

Darius Kazemi

@nigini @fediforum @kissane I will be attending, though only on Saturday (I have daylong work meetings the other days)

20 August at 23:46 | Open on friend.camp

nigini

Great to hear you'll be there @darius. Hope we can gather a good crowd to hear more about your research with @kissane. I'll try to read some before the #FediForum @fediforum