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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 332-354, May 2026.Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
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Labour pains: Content moderation challenges in Mastodon growth
Internet Policy ReviewAfter Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the number of users on the alternative social media platform Mastodon rose dramatically. The sudden influx of new users posed several challenges to content moderation distinct from those in large ...
Charlotte Spencer-Smith, Tales Tomaz
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de CulturaArtykuł analizuje, jak album Leviathan zespołu Mastodon interpretuje powieść Moby Dick H. Melville’a, wykorzystując utwory jako muzyczną ekfrazę. Teksty nawiązują do fabuły i motywów powieści, co udało się ukazać przez przytoczenie konkretnych wersów i ...
Łukasz Stec
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Social SciencesSocial media have been fundamental in the daily lives of millions of people, but they have raised concerns about content moderation policies, the management of personal data, and their commercial exploitation.
Simón Peña-Fernández +2 more
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First true mastodon from the Late Miocene of Iran
Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyA mammutid is described here for the first time from the Late Miocene (MN12 equivalent) deposits of Abkhareh village, Varzeghan region, in the North-Western part of Iran. It is identified as “Mammut” cf.
Sadaf Yaghoubi +3 more
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A Roadmap for Using Hybridisation Capture-Based Target Enrichment of Ancient Environmental DNA in Palaeoecology. [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT Recovering ancient DNA from environmental samples is transforming the way we understand historical ecosystems. While high‐throughput sequencing of the total DNA in environmental samples (shotgun metagenomic sequencing) reveals the taxonomic contents of these samples, the genetic signals of some taxa (e.g., eukaryotes) can be weak compared to ...
Foster NR +11 more
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Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration [PDF]
ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2023 The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised both praise and concerns, particularly regarding Musk's views on free speech.
Jiahui He +5 more
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Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here's what you need to know. [PDF]
Patterns (N Y)Summary Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse.
Roscam Abbing R, Gehl RW.
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Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study [PDF]
International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023 A recent surge of users migrating from Twitter to alternative platforms, such as Mastodon, raised questions regarding what migration patterns are, how different platforms impact user behaviors, and how migrated users settle in the migration process.
Ujun Jeong +5 more
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Late Pleistocene osseous projectile point from the Manis site, Washington-Mastodon hunting in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2023 Bone fragments embedded in a rib of a mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the Manis site, Washington, were digitally excavated and refit to reconstruct an object that is thin and broad, has smooth, shaped faces that converge to sharp lateral edges, and has
Waters MR +6 more
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