Who's ready to read my not so spicy, not very hot take on the latest Mastodon Scraping deal?
I think it's ready!
On Scraping Mastodon:
If they hadn't misunderstood the difference between a name of a field and the social and cultural implications of it's usage, this paper wouldn't have been written.
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@maloki If they'd got it right and obtained consent, a far more interesting paper could have been written...
@dumpling Too true. I feel like we could bring some people together on here, to actually write such a paper correctly. :D
@maloki that would be fun... Fediverse research, produced by the fediverse!
@dumpling and peer reviewed by the fediverse
@maloki @dumpling paging scholar.social...uh... @bgcarlisle?
@maloki@elekk.xyz I wrote up a very nice retort to the paper along this line, but their journal appears to only have been a conference publication and not a regular publication that might publish retorts.
@aldersprig Yeah. It's a good retort, and I do not believe I was the only person who reached the conclusion.
I have like 20 tabs open that I wanted to link to, and credit, but my head forgot to go back to them (because it was a bit much)...
@maloki this is fantastic, thank you for writing it and sharing it!
@aparrish Thank you for reading it! I'm glad people like it, that impostor syndrome always tickles the back of your mind when you post stuff like this..
@lambdagrrl @maloki @aparrish it doesn't even make any sense!!
@lambdagrrl @maloki @aparrish seriously. Like it's just flat out wrong.
@June I think we've all established that already :D @lambdagrrl @aparrish
1) well written. nicely done.
2) WTFOMGBBQ??? 
I mean... WHAT???
I wish I was surprised. This whole 'research' *reeks* of "computer people doing utterly superficial research and thinking that they understand a topic." Which is endemic with this crowd.
Next up, they'll solve global warming with blockchain. 
@mwlucas seems it may not be peer reviewed or anything either, it's kinda funny :D
@maloki I was in the social sciences before and I find it maddening to see these computer science papers without any ethical considerations. You cannot start social research without ethical board approval. Cs: yolo let's scrape a network and and dump it online.
@maloki I wrote about this a while back and have some considerations on the ethics of online research coming from that background.
@jaranta 👍
I wish I had seen it earlier.
I originally wanted to connect back to a lot of other people, but then my mind couldn't, so I left it out (mh/brain fog/adhd stuff).
@maloki well said. They should have got you to write their paper! Or rather, a different paper...
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