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 this http URL, and different topic preferences on each server.

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[–] Obelix@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Just FYI: Data is from May till June 2023. Musk took over Twitter end of Oct. / Nov 2022. A lot of stuff has happened since then, so that study can't tell you much about the current X

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Nazi posts are way up on X.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought MissKey was more popular in Japan?

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

These are Japanese language posts from 2023

[–] kane@femboys.biz 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting report. Might give Mastodon a try someday, I quit Twitter a little bit before the acquisition.