Very interesting preprint by @pettertornberg comparing the language indicators for content sharing on different social media platforms. On Mastodon (not sure how much content from the wider Fediverse was included), reasoning and nuance were most strongly associated with boosting. On X, insult, identity attack, and toxicity are rewarded instead. Bluesky doesn't seem to have particularly strong language indicators for sharing content.
The Politics Attention Makes: Platform Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics
Empirical research on social media and politics has primarily treated platforms as distributive systems that expose users to particular messages.arXiv.org
