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The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse
Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis, Aaron Shaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse
Online communities often overlap and coexist, despite incongruent norms and approaches to content moderation. When communities diverge, decentralized and federated communities may pursue group-level sanctions, including defederation (disconnection) to block communication between members of specific communities. We investigate the effects of defederation in the context of the Fediverse, a set of decentralized, interconnected social networks with independent governance. Mastodon and Pleroma, the …

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