@stefko Sounds like a great project! It's probably too late to add it now, but it would be interesting to know how the results break down in terms of people's gender, race, and tech experience.

I've got some discussion of barriers newcomers in the 2022/2023 wave faced in A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness, as well as links out to @kissane's outstanding work on this front.

And, for deeper background Mastodon: a partial history has a lot of discussion and links from the early days. So many of the issues that are current barriers were already identified back in 2017!