Topological and Conversational Features in a Large Mastodon Network

This dataset was created as part of a research paper titled 'Leading the Mastodon Herd: Analysing the Traits of Influential Leaders on a Decentralised Social Media Platform' by Luke Gassmann, Dr Matthew Edwards and Dr Ryan McConville. The datasets original purpose was to analyse how influence and conversational metrics interact within a decentralised social network environment.

This dataset contains a network of Mastodon users linked by conversational traits, mentions and reposts. Between the year 2001 and 2023 this dataset has 150,000 users, 70,000,000 total collected conversational and user features, 1,000,000 repost connections, 1,000,000 mention connections, and 1,000,000 post and reply connections. This dataset was collected using a three hop method from seed users referring to BBC News in the Mastodon Network. Personal information has been redacted from the dataset.