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To examine the dynamics of platform disruption and moral entrepreneurship during the mass user migration from Twitter to decentralized Mastodon following platform ownership changes.

March 18, 2025Symbolic InteractionOpen Access

Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration

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To examine the dynamics of platform disruption and moral entrepreneurship during the mass user migration from Twitter to decentralized Mastodon following platform ownership changes.
Conducted a mixed-methods empirical analysis tracking user migration from post-Musk Twitter to Mastodon.
Applied a symbolic interactionist theoretical framework to analyze platform architecture, governance, and user discourses.
Identified migrating users as moral entrepreneurs who actively assert normative claims about platform governance and ethical operation through discourse and behavioral choices.
Theorized mediated moral enterprise as a tripartite operational process composed of idealization, materialization, and actualization in decentralized social media environments.

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Mixed methods analysis reveals ideological claims during user migration from Twitter to Mastodon, highlighting how moral values drive engagement with decentralized social platforms.

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Ward et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c05fc1567d2fc4d5f73a2 https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1244

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Mixed methods analysis reveals ideological claims during user migration from Twitter to Mastodon, highlighting how moral values drive engagement with decentralized social platforms.

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