As a reaction to the traditional centralised social networks such as Twitter or Facebook, new models have emerged. Bluesky is part of that exploration of the design space in social networks platforms.

Bluesky brings new functionalities that are opened to third parties and promises a greater degree of control by the users. This presentation will examine those functionalities and its uptake by the community by examining a comprehensive dataset that includes up to 30M. We also examine the role of starter packs, infer the follows resulting from them and quantify the overall effect of starter packs in bootstrapping the social network of individual users.

About Ignacio Castro

Ignacio Castro is Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Chair at the Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes proposed Research Group (RASP RG). He obtained his PhD while researching at the Institute IMDEA Networks (Madrid, Spain), and visiting UC Berkeley (California, USA). His work sits at the intersection between economics and computer systems and his interest spans from online social networks and moderation to the macroscopic evolution of the Internet. He has been an investigator on three major EPSRC grants that hold over £6 million in funding and his work appears in top tier journals and conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, USENIX Security, ACM IMC, AAAI ICWSM, WWW, and IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking. He also serves in TPCs and organises top tier conferences including SIGCOMM, IMC, and CoNEXT.

Este evento se impartirá en inglés