Social media ‘back in the hands of the people’? Nuancing assumptions of legitimate content moderation on Mastodon
Published online on May 14, 2026
Abstract
New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
A series of controversies have plunged large social media platforms into a perennial legitimacy crisis, fuelling interest in noncentralised digital spaces. In particular, the Fediverse has come to embody hopes that online speech governance can be more ...
A series of controversies have plunged large social media platforms into a perennial legitimacy crisis, fuelling interest in noncentralised digital spaces. In particular, the Fediverse has come to embody hopes that online speech governance can be more ...