The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening
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| author | Sahneh, Erfan Samieyan Nogara, Gianluca DeVerna, Matthew R. Liu, Nick Luceri, Luca Menczer, Filippo Pierri, Francesco Giordano, Silvia |
| author_facet | Sahneh, Erfan Samieyan Nogara, Gianluca DeVerna, Matthew R. Liu, Nick Luceri, Luca Menczer, Filippo Pierri, Francesco Giordano, Silvia |
| contents | Bluesky is a Twitter-like decentralized social media platform that has recently grown in popularity. After an invite-only period, it opened to the public worldwide on February 6th, 2024. In this paper, we provide a longitudinal analysis of user activity in the two months around the opening, studying changes in the general characteristics of the platform due to the rapid growth of the user base. We observe a broad distribution of activity similar to more established platforms, but a higher volume of original than reshared content, and very low toxicity. After opening to the public, Bluesky experienced a large surge in new users and activity, especially posting English and Japanese content. In particular, several accounts entered the discussion with suspicious behavior, like following many accounts and sharing content from low-credibility news outlets. Some of these have already been classified as spam or suspended, suggesting effective moderation. |
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| spellingShingle | The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening Sahneh, Erfan Samieyan Nogara, Gianluca DeVerna, Matthew R. Liu, Nick Luceri, Luca Menczer, Filippo Pierri, Francesco Giordano, Silvia Social and Information Networks Bluesky is a Twitter-like decentralized social media platform that has recently grown in popularity. After an invite-only period, it opened to the public worldwide on February 6th, 2024. In this paper, we provide a longitudinal analysis of user activity in the two months around the opening, studying changes in the general characteristics of the platform due to the rapid growth of the user base. We observe a broad distribution of activity similar to more established platforms, but a higher volume of original than reshared content, and very low toxicity. After opening to the public, Bluesky experienced a large surge in new users and activity, especially posting English and Japanese content. In particular, several accounts entered the discussion with suspicious behavior, like following many accounts and sharing content from low-credibility news outlets. Some of these have already been classified as spam or suspended, suggesting effective moderation. |
| title | The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03146 |