New research paper on the experiences of serving as Mastodon admins to be presented at ACM SIGCHI conference next month, based on 16 admin interviews (including me) #MastoAdmin #fedi #CHI https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e9ea5d1-f02b-4f65-8f83-9a72e9e46213

@profcarroll 16? that's quite a low number considering there's thousands of Mastodon admins.

@BeAware these were deep qualitative interviews/not quantitative analysis; it was accepted into the most competitive/prestigious tech conference on the planet; perhaps read the paper prior to posting critiques?

@profcarroll Sorry, I didn't think someone doing research would be so sensitive to criticism about their research techniques.

I'll keep that in mind for the next time I see someone making a research paper based on less than 1% of the real analytics.