3 papers
cs.SI2025
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…
cs.SI2025
Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +6
Microblogging is a crucial mode of online communication. However, launching a new microblogging platform remains challenging, largely due to network effects. This has resulted in e…
cs.NI2024
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +5
The pitfalls of centralized social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter/X, have led to concerns about control, transparency, and accountability. Decentralized social networks hav…