Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon
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| author | Hironaka, Shiori Yoshida, Mitsuo Shudo, Kazuyuki |
| author_facet | Hironaka, Shiori Yoshida, Mitsuo Shudo, Kazuyuki |
| contents | The "Fediverse", a federation of decentralized social media servers, has emerged after a decade in which centralized platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have dominated the landscape. The structure of a federation should affect user activity, as a user selects a server to access the Fediverse and posts are distributed along the structure. This paper reports on the differences in user activity between Twitter and Mastodon, a prominent example of decentralized social media. The target of the analysis is Japanese posts because both Twitter and Mastodon are actively used especially in Japan. Our findings include a larger number of replies on Twitter, more consistent user engagement on mstdn.jp, and different topic preferences on each server. |
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| spellingShingle | Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon Hironaka, Shiori Yoshida, Mitsuo Shudo, Kazuyuki Social and Information Networks The "Fediverse", a federation of decentralized social media servers, has emerged after a decade in which centralized platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have dominated the landscape. The structure of a federation should affect user activity, as a user selects a server to access the Fediverse and posts are distributed along the structure. This paper reports on the differences in user activity between Twitter and Mastodon, a prominent example of decentralized social media. The target of the analysis is Japanese posts because both Twitter and Mastodon are actively used especially in Japan. Our findings include a larger number of replies on Twitter, more consistent user engagement on mstdn.jp, and different topic preferences on each server. |
| title | Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07068 |