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All of these points were written with commercial platforms in mind, however, exciting developments are happening in federated platforms such as Mastodon, where users are part of defining features and possibilities of interaction. There, the norms of the platform and the way they are codified into the technical structure are more often revised and reformulated together with the people using the platform.
All of these points were written with commercial platforms in mind, however, exciting developments are happening in federated platforms such as Mastodon, where users are part of defining features and possibilities of interaction. There, the norms of the platform and the way they are codified into the technical structure are more often revised and reformulated together with the people using the platform, as Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing have pointed out in their article *Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS*[^theses].
This in itself creates a different space for bots, which are still active contributors in the way sociality is imagined on these platforms. However, on platforms like Mastodon, bots don't only need to comply to the terms of services of the API, but also to collective agreements such as a code of conduct.
This in itself creates a different space for bots, which are still active contributors in the way sociality is imagined on these platforms. However interestingly enough, with a different infrastructural system comes a different type of ruleset. On platforms like Mastodon, bots don't only need to comply to the terms of services of the API, but also to collective agreements such as a code of conduct.
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# Footnotes
[^geiger]: Stuart Geiger
[^geiger]: Geiger, R. Stuart (2014). "Bots, bespoke, code and the materiality of software platforms" *Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.873069*
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[^platformlogic]: Andersson Schwarz, J. (2017). "Platform Logic: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Platform-Based Economy" *Policy & Internet, 9(4): 374–394. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.159*
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[^theses]: Mansoux, A., Roscam Abbing, R. (2020). "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS" *The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., Feb 2020, pp 124-140.*
