Tim Chambers on Nostr: Interesting find: "Despite Mastodon’s decentralized architecture, we found that the ...
Interesting find:
"Despite Mastodon’s decentralized architecture, we found that the 25% of the largest instances on Mastodon contains 96% of the users.
Paradoxically, while larger instances attract more users, smaller ones attract more active users, reinforcing Mastodon’s decentralization."
...We observed the impact of social network in migration, with an average of 14.72% of Twitter followees per user migrating to the exact same Mastodon instance as user."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.14294.pdf
"Despite Mastodon’s decentralized architecture, we found that the 25% of the largest instances on Mastodon contains 96% of the users.
Paradoxically, while larger instances attract more users, smaller ones attract more active users, reinforcing Mastodon’s decentralization."
...We observed the impact of social network in migration, with an average of 14.72% of Twitter followees per user migrating to the exact same Mastodon instance as user."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.14294.pdf