Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
One of my favourite features of Fediverse is how different instances (whether it be Mastodon, Lemmy or Pixelfed) cooperate with each other over using the ActivityPub protocol. This is a fundamental feature of decentralised social media. For instance (pun unintended), users of mastodon.social can communicate with mastodonapp.uk, and mastodonapp.uk can communicate with pixelfed.social. As a … Read more
I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year now, and I felt like it was time to move on. What do I mean by move on? Well, until recently, I’ve been hanging out on mastodonapp.uk as my “home” instance but, me being the self-hosting nerd that I am, I knew that this was not a … Read more
I’m a huge fan of Reddit. In fact, I use it every day. There’s something about the community-oriented structure of the platform which makes it easy to reach like-minded people and to discuss things which are of interest to me. As of April 2023, Reddit receives around 1.7 billion visits per month however, recent changes … Read more
Your social network is bigger than you think! I remember what got me really interested in social network analysis as a field of academic study was just the scale at which these networks grow. Whether we are looking at how people talk with others or share things with other people, these interactions can grow to … Read more
On Thursday, Meta (you know, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) launched a new social media platform. It’s called Threads and it can be described as “text-based” microblogging platform similar to that of Twitter and Mastodon with around 55 millions users. With the downfall of Twitter, Meta seeks to add its own competitor … Read more