Mastodon is free, open-source software for running a microblogging server, first released in 2016. Each server sets its own rules, and servers connect through ActivityPub to form the largest part of the fediverse. Website ↗
A Mastodon (2024 presidential debate coverage) dataset of 73,789 mastodon posts from June 25 - July 2, 2024, collected by Zenodo contributors via public API. Each record contains post text, user ID, post ID, creation date, hashtags, mentioned users, URLs, post type (post/reply/repost), linked post, root post, language. 73,789 mastodon posts covering the 2024 Biden-Trump presidential debate with pre-computed sentence embeddings. Suitable for political communication, debate analysis, cross-platform comparison, decentralized social media research, NLP with embeddings.
A Fediverse (mastodon, active_user graph) dataset of 8,135 nodes, 647,823 edges (24 snapshots merged), collected by Damie & Cyffers via weekly crawls over 6 months. Each record contains directed, weighted edges based on user follow activity across instances, aggregated over time. The dataset is notable for its influence-weighted graph where nodes are instances and directed edges represent user following behavior (weighted by count), showing which servers generate content consumed by users on other servers. Intended for research into information flow analysis, influence measurement, content source tracking, and cross-instance user attention studies.
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