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What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @axz, myself, @karger, and Mark Ackerman that will appear at #cscw2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05388
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Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
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Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a "wall" rather than a central feed.
If you don't like our 2x3 space, there's also a full 62-dimension treatment in the appendix from our inductive process, as we
📊 Post engagement
11
Avg engagement / post
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
May 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are · 31 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.26 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 5 text · 7 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
4.1×
Follows 227 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @axz, myself, @karger, and Mark Ackerman that will appear at #cscw2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05…
Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program is hiring a three-year lecturer position: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/29530
Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
Coming very soon: #cscw2024 panel on "Is Human-AI Interaction CSCW?" alongside @asb, @jbigham, @andresmh, and Merrie Morris!
https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/program/content/179232
A reviewer called @lindsay's work "a rare example of a 'full stack' CSCW paper. It is an unusual system paper that feels theoretically motivated and is evaluated experimentally against a meaningful control."
Congratulations, @lindsay!
This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.2…
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Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a…
Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2)~From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?
So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very produ…
One of my favorite little investigations was coding all the systems listed in a Wikipedia social media timeline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media) as of when they launched with Form-From. The pattern weaves back and f…
Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
Coming very soon: #cscw2024 panel on "Is Human-AI Interaction CSCW?" alongside @asb, @jbigham, @andresmh, and Merrie Morris!
https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/program/content/179232
A reviewer called @lindsay's work "a rare example of a 'full stack' CSCW paper. It is an unusual system paper that feels theoretically motivated and is evaluated experimentally against a meaningful control."
Congratulations, @lindsay!
This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.2…
You just got asked to review another paper; your third emoji is your review.
Photo post
Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a…
Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2)~From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?
So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very produ…
One of my favorite little investigations was coding all the systems listed in a Wikipedia social media timeline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media) as of when they launched with Form-From. The pattern weaves back and f…
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Home server
hci.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
May 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
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Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Stanford CS prof, human-computer interaction and social computing. Surely I will be interesting and entertaining here, even though I failed to achieve this on Twitter.
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