This is the home for my collection of studies on migration to Mastodon since the 2022 Twitter exodus. I did a thorough search for studies in August 2023 – see here, including a summary of 5 migration studies. In October 2025 I did a less thorough search to support a blog post. The collection has 14 studies now (13 primary studies and a review). They are listed below in reverse chronological order from first publication/preprint.
My blog post at Absolutely Maybe: A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different.
Hilda Bastian
30 October 2025
Peña-Fernández (2025). Straddling two platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an analysis of the evolution of an unfinished social media migration.
Ward (2025). Moral entrepreneus of the Mastodon migration.
Ng (2025). The journalists' exodus: Navigating the transition from Twitter to Mastodon and other alternative platforms.
Ittefaq (2025). Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies.
Bittermann (2025 – preprint). Social influence in the Academic Twitter Migration to Mastodon: A computational psychology approach. (Preregistered in 2023.)
Wang (2024a – preprint v1, 2024b – preprint v2). The failed migration of Academic Twitter.
Radivojevic (2024 – preprint, 2025 – journal). Reputation transfer in the Twitter diaspora.
Zheng (2024 – thesis). Från X till Mastodon: Socialitet, autonomi och valet att
migrera i den digitala världen [Google translate from Swedish: From X to Mastodon: Sociality, autonomy, and the choice to migrate in the digital world.]
Sabo (2023/2024 – conference proceedings). Studying the adoption of Mastodon: A systematic literature review. [HB note: This casts a broader net, including studies of Mastodon users, not just ones studying platform migration.]
Bin Zia (2023 – preprint, He 2023 – journal). Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration.
Siebert (2023 – preprint). Twitter and Mastodon presence of highly-cited scientists.
Jeong (2023 – preprint, 2024 – journal). Exploring platform migration patters between Twitter and Mastodon: A user behavior study.
La Cava (2023a – preprint, 2023b – journal). Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon.
Valero (2023). Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty. [A Nature survey.]
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