Fetching all the various sources you all kindly pointed out, this is a quick and dirty list of all research papers that mention fediverse or mastodon words in their titles ordered by year. There are several authors that have published several papers. It would be awesome to reach them on their mastodon/fediverse accounts. If you know them or you are one of them, poke a mention or reply, i would like to follow you.

(1) Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network [Diana Zulli, Miao Liu & Robert Gehl] (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820912533?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2

(2) Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15473

(3) Network Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy inMastodon User Behaviors [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2022) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19391/19163

(4) Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674

(5) Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques [Chanel Robin, Eva Giard, Stéphane Couture] (2022) https://cirst.uqam.ca/publications/1514/

(6) CHAPTER 12 Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse [Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani] (2022)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv319wpvm.16

(7) Creating a City for All of Us: The Possible Role of the Fediverse in Archiving Civic Urban Memory [Pen Lister] (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44206-024-00137-8

(8) Information Consumption and Boundary Spanning in Decentralized Online Social Networks: the case of Mastodon Users [Lucio La Cava & Andrea Tagarelli] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15752

(9) Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse [Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola & Gareth Tyson] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05915

(10) The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse [Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis & Aaron Shaw] (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

(11) An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types [Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, Mirela Riveni] (2024) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13278-024-01341-7.pdf

(12) Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks:A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse [Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro] (2024) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/31293/33453

(13) Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks [Ramón Salaverría, María-Pilar Martínez-Costa & Clara González Tosat] (2024) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2

(14) 15 - Moderating the Fediverse. Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media from Part III - Platform Governance [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2024) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/media-and-society-after-technological-disruption/moderating-the-fediverse/A9018A2868DBE98ED59BA66BC6C25913

(15) From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse [Skip de Mönnink] (2024) https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46353

(16) Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse [Jamie A. Theophilos] (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241308323

(17) Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances [Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, Chris Martens] (2024) https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0138

(18) Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse [Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro & Gareth Tyson] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05871

(19) Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media [Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara & Yan Shvartzshnaider] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

(20) "A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks [Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito] (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919

(21) Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse [Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide & Rob Gehl] (2025) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4598303

#mastodon #fediverse #research #papers #academic #publishing #study

Fetching all the various sources you all kindly pointed out, this is a quick and dirty list of all research papers that mention fediverse or mastodon words in their titles ordered by year. There are several authors that have published several papers. It would be awesome to reach them on their mastodon/fediverse accounts. If you know them or you are one of them, poke a mention or reply, i would like to follow you.

(1) Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network [Diana Zulli, Miao Liu & Robert Gehl] (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820912533?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2

(2) Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15473

(3) Network Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy inMastodon User Behaviors [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2022) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19391/19163

(4) Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674

(5) Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques [Chanel Robin, Eva Giard, Stéphane Couture] (2022) https://cirst.uqam.ca/publications/1514/

(6) CHAPTER 12 Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse [Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani] (2022)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv319wpvm.16

(7) Creating a City for All of Us: The Possible Role of the Fediverse in Archiving Civic Urban Memory [Pen Lister] (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44206-024-00137-8

(8) Information Consumption and Boundary Spanning in Decentralized Online Social Networks: the case of Mastodon Users [Lucio La Cava & Andrea Tagarelli] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15752

(9) Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse [Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola & Gareth Tyson] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05915

(10) The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse [Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis & Aaron Shaw] (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

(11) An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types [Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, Mirela Riveni] (2024) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13278-024-01341-7.pdf

(12) Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks:A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse [Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro] (2024) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/31293/33453

(13) Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks [Ramón Salaverría, María-Pilar Martínez-Costa & Clara González Tosat] (2024) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2

(14) 15 - Moderating the Fediverse. Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media from Part III - Platform Governance [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2024) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/media-and-society-after-technological-disruption/moderating-the-fediverse/A9018A2868DBE98ED59BA66BC6C25913

(15) From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse [Skip de Mönnink] (2024) https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46353

(16) Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse [Jamie A. Theophilos] (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241308323

(17) Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances [Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, Chris Martens] (2024) https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0138

(18) Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse [Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro & Gareth Tyson] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05871

(19) Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media [Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara & Yan Shvartzshnaider] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

(20) "A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks [Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito] (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919

(21) Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse [Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide & Rob Gehl] (2025) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4598303

#mastodon #fediverse #research #papers #academic #publishing #study

Fediverse, do your magic. I'm looking for published academic papers on the fediverse network, i.e: mastodon, discussing or analyzing any topic from moderation, migration events, information propagation or other aspects of the network itself. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #fediverso #mastodon #internet #academic #paper #research

Fediverse, do your magic. I'm looking for published academic papers on the fediverse network, i.e: mastodon, discussing or analyzing any topic from moderation, migration events, information propagation or other aspects of the network itself. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #fediverso #mastodon #internet #academic #paper #research

The racism behind chatGPT we are not talking about....

This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread.

A few weeks ago, I was working on a paper with one of my RAs. I have permission from them to share this story. They had done the research and the draft. I was to come in and make minor edits, clarify the method, add some background literature, and we were to refine the discussion together.

The draft was incomprehensible. Whole paragraphs were vague, repetitive, and bewildering. It was like listening to a politician. I could not edit it. I had to rewrite nearly every section. We were on a tight deadline, and I was struggling to articulate what was wrong and how the student could fix it, so I sent them on to further sections while I cleaned up ... this.

As I edited, I had to keep my mind from wandering. I had written with this student before, and this was not normal. I usually did some light edits for phrasing, though sometimes with major restructuring.

I was worried about my student. They had been going through some complicated domestic issues. They were disabled. They'd had a prior head injury. They had done excellent on their prelims, which of course I couldn't edit for them. What was going on!?

We were co-writing the day before the deadline. I could tell they were struggling with how much I had to rewrite. I tried to be encouraging and remind them that this was their research project and they had done all of the interviews and analysis. And they were doing great.

In fact, the qualitative write-up they had done the night before was better, and I was back to just adjusting minor grammar and structure. I complimented their new work and noted it was different from the other parts of the draft that I had struggled to edit.

Quietly, they asked, "is it okay to use chatGPT to fix sentences to make you sound more white?"

"... is... is that what you did with the earlier draft?"

They had, a few sentences at a time, completely ruined their own work, and they couldnt tell, because they believed that the chatGPT output had to be better writing. Because it sounded smarter. It sounded fluent. It seemed fluent. But it was nonsense!

I nearly cried with relief. I told them I had been so worried. I was going to check in with them when we were done, because I could not figure out what was wrong. I showed them the clear differences between their raw drafting and their "corrected" draft.

I told them that I believed in them. They do great work. When I asked them why they felt they had to do that, they told me that another faculty member had told the class that they should use it to make their papers better, and that he and his RAs were doing it.

The student also told me that in therapy, their therapist had been misunderstanding them, blaming them, and denying that these misunderstandings were because of a language barrier.

They felt that they were so bad at communicating, because of their language, and their culture, and their head injury, that they would never be a good scholar. They thought they had to use chatGPT to make them sound like an American, or they would never get a job.

They also told me that when they used chatGPT to help them write emails, they got more responses, which helped them with research recruitment.

I've heard this from other students too. That faculty only respond to their emails when they use chatGPT. The great irony of my viral autistic email thread was always that had I actually used AI to write it, I would have sounded decidedly less robotic.

ChatGPT is probably pretty good at spitting out the meaningless pleasantries that people associate with respectability. But it's terrible at making coherent, complex, academic arguments!

Last semester, I gave my graduate students an assignment. They were to read some reports on labor exploitation and environmental impact of chatGPT and other language models. Then they were to write a reflection on why they have used chatGPT in the past, and how they might chose to use it in the future.

I told them I would not be policing their LLM use. But I wanted them to know things about it they were unlikely to know, and I warned them about the ways that using an LLM could cause them to submit inadequate work (incoherent methods and fake references, for example).

In their reflections, many international students reported that they used chatGPT to help them correct grammar, and to make their writing "more polished".

I was sad that so many students seemed to be relying on chatGPT to make them feel more confident in their writing, because I felt that the real problem was faculty attitudes toward multilingual scholars.

I have worked with a number of graduate international students who are told by other faculty that their writing is "bad", or are given bad grades for writing that is reflective of English as a second language, but still clearly demonstrates comprehension of the subject matter.

I believe that written communication is important. However, I also believe in focused feedback. As a professor of design, I am grading people's ability to demonstrate that they understand concepts and can apply them in design research and then communicate that process to me.

I do not require that communication to read like a first language student, when I am perfectly capable of understanding the intent. When I am confused about meaning, I suggest clarifying edits.

I can speak and write in one language with competence. How dare I punish international students for their bravery? Fixation on normative communication chronically suppresses their grades and their confidence. And, most importantly, it doesn't improve their language skills!

If I were teaching rhetoric and comp it might be different. But not THAT different. I'm a scholar of neurodivergent and Mad rhetorics. I can't in good conscience support Divergent rhetorics while supressing transnational rhetoric!

Anyway, if you want your students to stop using chatGPT then stop being racist and ableist when you grade.

#chatGPT#LLM #academic#graduateStudents#internationalStudents#ESL

Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for all kinds of humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:

https://hcommons.social

You can find out more at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello

#FeaturedServer#Humanities#Academic#Scholars#Mastodon#HomeTown#HometownMastodon #Fediverse#FreeFediverse

Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for all kinds of humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:

https://hcommons.social

You can find out more at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello

#FeaturedServer#Humanities#Academic#Scholars#Mastodon#HomeTown#HometownMastodon #Fediverse#FreeFediverse

Hi, academics,
I have a question that is somewhat important for understanding the treatment of some untenured folks at a university.

This question is specifically aimed for academics who are working in a country where they are not citizens: How much, if any, assistance did/does your university provide with your necessary visa requirements? (I was going to do a poll but its probably too fine-grained of answers.)

Please share if relevant!

#academia #academicchatter #academics #academic

Hi, academics,
I have a question that is somewhat important for understanding the treatment of some untenured folks at a university.

This question is specifically aimed for academics who are working in a country where they are not citizens: How much, if any, assistance did/does your university provide with your necessary visa requirements? (I was going to do a poll but its probably too fine-grained of answers.)

Please share if relevant!

#academia #academicchatter #academics #academic

AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing
This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the …
https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/
#academic #ai #jill-rettberg #p-bksy #paperpal #tools