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There are a number of papers discussing the quality of toots here...
Prosocial Design Network says a new social media metric could elevate positive, prosocial content!
Scores rating a post’s “quality,” as opposed to likes and shares, could help minimize the reach of toxic posts on social platforms:
@ozoned Thinking this over. If I want to measure what I'm getting out of the Fediverse, one way to look at is, if I post something, does anyone care? And do I care about what other people are posting?
A good measure of this is how many people actually comment on my posts, and how many posts do I comment on.
You could quantify this as "median written responses per post". Note I'm saying written responses, not boosts. Boosts are not enough effort to count.
The reason I'm saying *median* is that some networks have accounts with huge fanbases, and those followers do respond. That's "engagement" useful for marketers to know about influencers. And we do have a few very-well-followed accounts here. Using median means these outliers won't skew the result that much.
I mean, if I post something, and two people say something back, I'm happy.
@14mission@sfba.social It's a difficult one though. "Boosts" are you actively sharing with your community. That's the primary method of organic growth here I'd imagine. Of course I don't even know that for sure. How do folks primarily find others? Hashtags? Boosts from someone they follow? IDK. 😊
But someone else pointed out that even a low quality comment might not be as helpful for a quantitative analysis. How many +1 posts are there? Are they the same value as our conversation here?
IDK! 😁 I just feel passionate that MAU is the completely wrong metric.
@ozoned One thing that's nice about the Fediverse that's not quantifiable, is that I've actually made some friends here that I've never met in the real world.
In all the years I actually was on FB and looked at the "feed", it was zero.
(There have been a couple--ok maybe just one--from FB groups, but in the feed? nobody).
In the days of email lists, I had friends through those. That was pretty much destroyed by social media, mainly FB (and this is why I will curse meta forever).
Anyway, like I said, this is important, but not directly quantifiable.
@14mission@sfba.social Absolutely. And folks should have the option to stay private. We'll NEVER know the true size of the Fediverse. There will be islands, there will be people that just consume and don't respond to anything. All of that is ok.
But people are looking at just MAU and saying we're shrinking. And if we are, so what. It's not a valid number. It's A number yes.
But that's like saying my car is better than yours because it has 120,000 miles on it and your car is brand new. 😁
@ozoned also we need to measure the value of the fact that checking in doesn’t devolve into endless scrolling - I like that it only takes a few minutes of my day to connect, see a few new things and be on my way
@phwolfe940@denton.social OH YES! This place is absolutely not built to be addicting. It's built to be community first and I'd go so far as to say every project I've personally used, do as much as possible to break those bad habits.
@ozoned I'm not a scientist. But from my work with social media I know that the number of comments alone doesn't show quality. You get a maximum of comments with polarising and provoking posts. Or if people shitstorm you.
To measure the quality of highly interacting social media, one should measure the quality of communication: how constructive/long/interesting people are talking with one another.
And algorithms can falsify the results.
@NatureMC@mastodon.online ABSOLUTELY agree with all of this. I guess my underlying argument is the old yard stick of MAU, has zero relevance to us. And though I see folks having the best intentions, there are those that attempt to measure in MAU and indicate the Fediverse is dieing. I think that's absolutely incorrect. We're spreading out. Yes, some people left. But I know I run my own now, when in the past I was on a Mastodon instance.
@ozoned and given the general left-libertarian freeforall attitude of “how dare you read what I post on public timelines without my personal affirmative consent to view!!!!” that ppl keep fallling into, holy crap I would not want to see the ethics review board of a university deal with that.
@johannab@cosocial.ca excellent points. :-). I can definitely see numerous folks upset at the thought. And I can't blame anyone. Considering the abuses people are attempting to extract themselves from.
I think what we need is a serious systems design researcher, someone who can dig up and understand the fundamentals of network theory and of the architectures we once explored but have abandoned, or are slowly and haphazardly reinventing by bumbling around trying to define what we’re not.
That also has to be someone who understood the world before Canter & Siegel ever happened, because that decision to intrude on everyone’s networking for personal profit set this up.
@johannab@cosocial.ca this is already FAR deeper than my knowledge on the field. :-D. Sounds like numerous research papers to be had for anyone willing. Lol. NOT me though. Not my forte. 😄
@ozoned for all that my last couple of years of education have involved some training-wheel level Data Science and Research Methods class work, I’m not sure this is a thing anyone has worked out. I feel like it COULD be done and I can imagine the shape of it, but it would involve rethinking what we consider a metric at a very fundamental level.
With social “media”, the subject of all the metrics we have is NOT the person … it’s the product, the individual units of “content”.
@johannab@cosocial.ca exactly! We're measuring ourselves wrong. MAU is a meaningless statistics, when my site will probably only ever get me. But I'm still a piece of the conversation to Mastodon.social though I am NEVER one of their monthly active users.
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I know lots of folks are talking about Monthly Active Users when it comes to health of the Fediverse.
We use that to compare social medias and even ourselves, a social network, to each other.
I argue we should be focused on user engagement. I know LinkedIn has "impressions", but idk what that means.
So I wonder if there's a good way to generate this. Someone posting is the highest, commenting, subscribing, liking, disliking, and follow on down. I guess that would be a statistical model? But with diminishing returns. One SUPER ACTIVE ANNOYING poster does not a network make, but "media" it does.
I don't have a clue how this would work statistically. But I theorize, that while we're smaller MAU, our user engagement is significantly higher when population size is accounted for.
Is there any data anyone knows of to back this up or disapprove it? I'm pro small.social though, so maybe I'm wrong. Any data scientists in the Fediverse? :-D #data #dataIsBeautiful #fedi #fediverse #science
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