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Rocketman

A student in Vienna is writing her master’s thesis about Mastodon and the Fediverse:

You can help by participating in this survey (ca 10 minutes):
sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonAct

17 December at 16:05 | Open on chaos.social
26 comments
Austin

@slothrop@chaos.social this is something I wanted to write about

17 December at 17:01 | Open on kitty.social
Dusk To Don :raccoon:
Epistatacadam
národní prase
@slothrop well at least she can filter out some outliers (me) to show off statistics work
17 December at 20:30 | Open on piggo.space
cichlidenfreund 💉💉💉💉💉💉
Steve

@slothrop
Done.
Allerdings weiss ich nicht so Recht, wie das Thema der Studie mit den Fragen der Studie aussagekräftig sein wird.
Für mich persönlich gefühlt zu viele geschlossene Fragen. Ist sicherlich auch ein weites Feld, da kommt man wohl ohne Einschränkungen nicht zum Ziel.

Drücke ihr die Daumen und wünsche viel Erfolg. :)

17 December at 21:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Simon (a 🐮 in 🇳🇿)

@slothrop I can't get past question 4, it keeps telling me not to use the back button of my browser...
Which, I'm not using...

17 December at 21:58 | Open on cloudisland.nz
Dynamic_Friendica
I continue to be disoriented by some of the size ranges for instances that others consider noteworthy. To me, everything above 1000, is "large", and everything above 10,000 is truly excessive. I can't even fathom a 500,000 person instance.
Screenshot of a survey question asking "Can you estimate the number of registered users on your instance?" with response options "Fewer than 100", "100-1,000", "1,001-10,000", "10,001-50,000", "50,001-500,000", and "More than 500,000"
17 December at 23:30 | Open on friendica.myportal.social
tootbrute

@slothrop i run my own self-hosted instance. hmm....nothing really to indicate on this that i do that so far. asking about my moderation policies.

i moderate my own posts, so yes....i know my policies.

18 December at 2:52 | Open on fedi.arkadi.one
Simx72 :gaming_kirby5:
Koutsie :unverified:

@slothrop Cant complete it because it complains about not using the back button when i click next :/

18 December at 6:43 | Open on layer8.space
:blobcatverified2:
@slothrop I took part, but I think the study has very bad questions. Sadly all the Questions are about the local Instance which one, if one is unhappy with, easily can move to a different one. It would be much more interessting to get questions about other aspects of the Fediverse
18 December at 7:55 | Open on blob.cat
George Wüst
Gratian

@slothrop Does said student have an account here? The design of the survey seem to suggest, that he*she is not familiar with the structure of the feeds in Mastodon.

18 December at 8:50 | Open on bildung.social
Rocketman

@GratianRiter she does, see other reply in thread.

By default, I would assume that she has understood Fedi mechanics well enough. Consider that surveys like this are designed to answer a specific question, and tend to hide quite a bit of the analytical complexity that exists below the surface.

18 December at 13:32 | Open on chaos.social
Gratian

@slothrop im aware of that. Though it does not really make sense to ask about "the feed". Since there are three feeds by default and I'm using approximately 12.

18 December at 13:53 | Open on bildung.social
jpw_owl
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
Irène Langlet
Matthew Loxton

@slothrop
The questions and the stated intent do not seem to align very well.
I can't see how those questions would explain why there was a drop off of user activity

18 December at 16:13 | Open on med-mastodon.com
Rocketman

@mloxton I have no idea - I can only assume that the researcher has done her homework, and on the basis of this, has decided that these are the right questions to ask.

We might just take the scientific approach and wait for the publication of her thesis, after which everyone can debate the whole thing on its merits.

18 December at 16:15 | Open on chaos.social
Matthew Loxton

@slothrop
Yah. I completed the survey and boosted, because helping other researchers is good.
I am unlikely to see her paper though, so not going to ever understand how she used those answers. It just struck me that maybe she was exploring a different construct to what was mentioned in the lead page

18 December at 16:20 | Open on med-mastodon.com
Stéphane Bortzmeyer

@slothrop From the questionnaire, the survey is just about Mastodon, the fediverse is not mentioned so if you use Pleroma or Misskey, you're probably not concerned.

18 December at 16:25 | Open on mastodon.gougere.fr
Rocketman

@bortzmeyer Right, the survey does focus on Mastodon. However, it asks about which applications you use (though I think you get to pick only one), and on that page some other Fedi apps are listed, eg Pleroma and Misskey

18 December at 16:26 | Open on chaos.social
ralf warümme tauscher
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