The study talks to 16 Mastodon admins who got to say what they thought Mastodon did. It’s not really a study, it’s just a survey. Being posted here is just confirmation bias. For Mastodon to increase citizen empowerment, there has to be something measured and a control group that isn’t on Mastodon.
From the abstract
In this paper, following a pre-study survey, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 Mastodon instance administrators, including those who host instances to support marginalised and stigmatised communities
You really have to read beyond the headline. This isn’t Reddit.
Thank you for reading the article
Thank you for your service. o7
this. thank you
This justifies the amount of time I spend on Lemmy so I’ll believe it without so much as clicking the link
It’s my opinion too
Do we also need a study that water is wet?
I thought water wasn’t wet, just the stuff it touches.
Idk if this is really true.
People get their accounts banned on this site for wrongthink constantly
This shit isn’t meaningfully different than reddit
Well, maybe you subscribe to the wrong subs on the wrong instance?
Banned from lemmy.world for telling a woman she was “Dumber than shit” for voting for trump and then defending him in a thread here.
Banned from lemmy.world for telling a woman she was “Dumber than shit”
Well, that’s not called wrongthink, that’s just being an asshole.
If you vote for Trump and aren’t rich, you’re dumber than shit
That’s just a fact
Well, and it’s a fact that your behaviour is kinda lacklustre.
Wow they’re planning putting people in camps and you can’t even agree it’s dumb to vote for that.
Fuck you you dumb as shit too
