A write-up of the Account Discovery feature can be found here hosted with IFTAS

This write-up comes with an accompanying graphic for easy sharing on social media

Below is the abstract for Keeping Watch over the Fediverse my article on the lessons that the BlueLeaks dataset has for state surveillance of the Fediverse

Non-centralized social media appears to be undergoing a "Killer Hype Cycle", where many users dissatisfied with centralized corporate platforms are identifying Mastodon as an alternative. With the influx of users there has been an increase in available data for researchers of social media and communication. Much of this work has focused on the everyday end user: someone who is using the platform to share personal information or consume media. However, these platforms have other uses. Corporations seek to mine federated media for their own endeavors, and state agents catalog the information for various uses. In this paper, I analyze data from the BlueLeaks dataset, 270 gigabytes of leaked messages, training, inventory lists, and membership logs from U.S. Fusion Centers, to determine state surveillance intrusion into non-centralized platforms. By viewing this data through the model of Abstraction, Topology, and Scale proposed by Zulli, Liu, and Gehl, I compare state actors' approaches to non-centralized media to those of regular users. This paper advances the study of non-centralized media in two key ways. First, it centers non-traditional users of media, like state agents and corporate actors. Second, it advances the use of leaked information in academic research as a method to reduce the problems of uncertainty and incentives to misrepresent information from official channels.