Software presentation: Rtoot: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data

IF 3.1 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI:10.1177/20501579231176678

David Schoch, Chung-hong Chan

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Abstract

Mastodon is a free and open-source software which allows to run a self-hosted microblogging service, like Twitter. Servers running Mastodon can interoperate, meaning that their users can communicate across different instances. Together, all Mastodon instances form a large decentralized federation of social networking sites. Mastodon was first released in late 2016 but has not attracted as much attention by users and researchers compared to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter. Previous studies on Mastodon (e.g., La Cava et al., 2022; Zulli et al., 2020) classify it as an “alternative social media” platform, in contrast to “corporate social media” platforms such as Twitter. Due to the open-source nature, Mastodon is also famous for being the technology behind far-right social media platforms such as Gab and Donald Trump’s Truth Social. These far-right platforms have also captured certain academic attention (e.g., Zannettou et al., 2018; Zhou et al., 2019). The Twitter takeover by Elon Musk in 2022, however, has changed this alternative—if not fringe—status of the technology and sparked a huge wave of new registrations for instances running Mastodon (Huang, 2022). Mastodon will become increasingly more relevant for communication scholars who study online behavior and phenomena. It is important to note that Mastodon also is a mobile platform. Official mobile apps for the

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软件演示:root:收集和分析乳齿象数据

Mastodon是一个免费的开源软件，可以运行像Twitter这样的自托管微博服务。运行Mastodon的服务器可以互操作，这意味着它们的用户可以在不同的实例之间进行通信。所有Mastodon实例共同组成了一个大型的去中心化的社交网站联盟。Mastodon于2016年底首次发布，但与Twitter等集中式社交媒体平台相比，它并没有引起用户和研究人员的关注。先前对Mastodon的研究（例如，La Cava等人，2022；Zulli等人，2020）将其归类为“替代社交媒体”平台，而不是Twitter等“企业社交媒体”。由于其开源性质，Mastodon也因是Gab和Donald Trump的Truth social等极右翼社交媒体平台背后的技术而闻名。这些极右翼平台也引起了一定的学术关注（例如，Zannettou等人，2018；周等人，2019）。然而，埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在2022年收购推特（Twitter），改变了这项技术的替代地位——如果不是边缘地位的话——并引发了Mastodon实例的新注册浪潮（Huang，2022）。Mastodon对于研究网络行为和现象的传播学者来说将变得越来越重要。值得注意的是Mastodon也是一个移动平台。官方移动应用程序

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Mobile Media & Communication COMMUNICATION-

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9.40

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16.30%

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期刊介绍： Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.