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jeremy, 1 month ago to random

Most online communities fail really quickly, never getting more than a few contributors.

What role do community founders have in which communities grow?

In this blog post, I summarize research that @skairam
and I did surveying Reddit founders.

https://blog.communitydata.science/founders-influence-on-their-new-online-communities/

jeremy, 1 month ago

The TL;DR is that founders differ along a lot of dimensions regarding why they start their subreddits and what they hope they become.

Those who are motivated by interest in a topic, and who have plans to recruit others are the most likely to see their communities grow.

To learn more, read the blog post, or better yet, read our paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00601, which will be presented at #CHI2024

jeremy, 1 month ago

@andresmh @skairam

Yes, I think there's a lot of noise and not all founders do much to contribute. :)

I don't remember if @skairam asked this in the Reddit, but in my earlier paper on wikis I asked how many contributors they thought their wiki would get. I never published it, but there was very little correlation with the actual size a year-ish later. I was actually surprised that the founder actions had as strong as a relationship as they do.

jeremy, 1 month ago to random

I'm working on a CAREER this year. Advice welcome!!

jeremy, 1 month ago

@jbigham Thanks!!!

andresmh, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

What’s your favorite mobile email app and why?

jeremy, 8 months ago

@andresmh eh, I think they're both good enough. I use Gmail and Outlook because it's nice to have work and personal email separated.

bkeegan, 8 months ago to random

It sure is fun to teach a Web Data Science class while all of this is unfolding! https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/x-updates-its-terms-to-ban-crawling-and-scraping/

jeremy, 8 months ago

@bkeegan Ditto!

I'm moving as much as I can to Reddit. PRAW is fantastic, and the terms are reasonable for many projects.

jeremy, 10 months ago to random

I enjoy Mastodon and follow a great set of folks but a few aspects of the experience are annoying.

Mastodon needs real threads and optional algorithmic sorting.

jeremy, 10 months ago

@andresmh Looks like iOS only? :( I'm on Android.

jeremy, 10 months ago

@gray17 Thanks! That is nice looking

jeremy, 11 months ago to random

Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty is a great framework for thinking about how people decide when and whether to migrate platforms.

The key insight is that when an organization's members become dissatisfied, they can either leave or express their discontent.

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jeremy, 11 months ago

Which option they choose depends on the other options available if they leave and the perceived efficacy of voicing concerns.

If, for example, an organization appeared not to care about what its members say 🤔, then they will be more likely to leave.

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jeremy, 11 months ago to random

Looking for pointers on using LLMs for social science research. E.g., for classification, as chatbots, as simulated agents, etc.

Would love to have a conversation here, and also to read good things that have been written.

#commodon #academia

jeremy, 11 months ago

@andresmh @msbernst yes, it's great!!

Niloufar, 1 year ago to random

I wonder if "early leavers" is a category of users we should pay as much attention to as "early adopters." What is a tool or service you left early? #UX #UXdesign

jeremy, 1 year ago

@andresmh @Niloufar @jbigham

I would read that.