Category: Social Media
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Notes on Crawling Instances on the Known Fediverse
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…
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My Initial Thoughts on Lemmy – A Reddit Alternative for the Fediverse
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…
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Your Social Network Is Bigger Than You Think!
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…
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My Thoughts on Threads – Meta’s new text-based platform
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…
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Modelling Discussion Threads From Mastodon Timelines Using Python and Networkx
On Mastodon, users have the ability to reply to another user’s post by leaving comments as a response. This feature is designed to encourage users to engage and build connections…
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How I Use Mastodon: My Top 5 Favourite Mastodon Features
Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) provide so many useful features which simply aren’t present on other microblogging sites like Twitter. I’ve come to realise how much I’ve missed all…
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Alternative Federated Social Media Platforms to Try in 2023
It goes without saying that I’m a huge advocate for federated social media. I recently joined Mastodon (my profile) and I love it! As I mentioned in my previous post,…
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What Is the Fediverse, and Why Does It Matter?
Users of the internet have witnessed many movements over the past few decades. We have seen the shift from Web 2.0 to 3.0 and social media’s rise and widespread use.…