@a_cat With regard to Asia / Australia, I assume that it is a timezone issue. When I posted the question, it was already night in many parts of Asia. Let's see what happens over the next 12 hours.

@a_cat @gerald_leppert the biggest instances are japanese, so it probably reflects whos seen the poll more than the composition of the fedives

@radicalgraffiti @a_cat @gerald_leppert how many boosts will it take to escape the euro ghetto?

In the poll (above) asking "on which continent #Mastodon users live", the current results look strange and non-representative: #Asia / #Australia is just at 3% (!), although there was a great influx of people from #India in past months and there is a large community in #Japan (mstdn.jp 200k & pawoo.net 600k*).

*Pawoo.net uses Mastodon v2.4.0, which IMHO did not support polls.

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here is what I think.

1) Indian user may neglect to participate on the poll

I found them non reactive to posts like, not liking, boosting, commenting etc

2) might be this post not reached massive Indians (non tect)

@gerald_leppert

@noorul Thanks, interesting. Why, do you think, is it like that?

I done role as social media marketer.

for a period, I was seeking answer for why indian users tend not responsibe.

they tend to be active Online, view content but rarely engaging.

also it very depend on the type of content.

recent shifted users from India are left wings and tend to attracted towards politic posts

@gerald_leppert

@gerald_leppert @poebbel @radicalgraffiti @a_cat @IndiasMuslims @tecoholic @noorul @scharada @dsno @munyumunyu @souji

In the case of Japan, if you do not provide a questionnaire in your own language, you will not be able to answer. Certainly the Japanese instance is very large and the momentum has weakened considerably, but it is still active.

@hide104 You are right, this would be better. Mastodon does not support multilingual polls. I added the question in several languages (as far as possible with 500char), including Japanese. The answer categories are unfortunately only in English + emoji.
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why not, set an other poll in #Japanese ?

@gerald_leppert @hide104

@noorul Thanks for your idea. If you set up two polls (one in multiple languages and one in Japanese) then it is not really helpful for a "global" question. You'll never know who double-voted. Thus, it is impossible to merge or compare.

By the way, @hide104 has set up a similar poll here https://mstdn.jp/@hide104/103787411183117657 asking about the closest ocean in Japanese, English, Spanish and French.

😅😅

this is tricky question for me too.

which ocean near by 🤔

@gerald_leppert @hide104

@gerald_leppert I wouldn't mind the possible double-votes. They are possible now too.

More skewy IMHO is who starts the poll. If your followers are mostly EURopean and boost it to their mostly EUR folks, it's no wonder that EUR sticks out.

Maybe have someone from each continent (or better: each language) post the same poll and merge the results.

That still won't wipe out the skew of cultural differeneces like some tend not to engage etc.

@noorul @hide104

@guido Yes, there certainly is some starting point bias. The poll started from those who follow me and then expanded to others through futher boosts. I noticed that Europe and the Americas were picking up quickly, but not Asia and Africa. To reduce that starting bias, I actively contacted some people from Asia and Africa asking them to boost the poll.

BTW, you mention that double-votes are also now possible. How? Only, if someone has multiple accounts or do I miss something?

@noorul @hide104

@gerald_leppert

Yes, for the double-votes, I was thinking of people with multiple accounts.

@noorul @hide104

@guido @gerald_leppert @noorul

Not a celebrity, so few respond to the questionnaire call. I just repeat the questionnaire often in my native language. There are many or few participants. However, because of the large number of people, we will not recruit for a long time. At most about a day

@guido

I have to think through your idea of multiple polls and merge them later to achieve better representativeness.

Here some comparison for the continents poll. Hide104 was inspired by my poll and posted this similar poll from Japan (as starting point):
https://mstdn.jp/@hide104/103787411183117657

Although the starting point was Japan, there is still some high percentage of people close to Atlantic ocean. Quite interesting.

@owenthecat @gerald_leppert anata-ha dono kanji-niimasu-ka?

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@andrej Sorry, you are right that I forgot Antarctica. Are you tooting from there?

@gerald_leppert (Un)Fortunately not. But I can imagine some fediversies are actually there.

@greatjoe
You must be living in Pitcairn Islands. Are you?

Indeed, the emojis aren't that great. For example, there isn't even a emoji for Europe :earth_europe: . I used the Africa 🌍 emoji (also showing Europe) instead.

@gerald_leppert Iceland. The Americas emoji also doesn't show North America's largest glacier, Greenland.

@hadsn

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, indeed, in the question I meant "geo-political continent", which is the same which you call "region".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

@bortzmeyer

Haha, there is high demand wrt Antarctica. @andrej has already asked, too. Indeed, I forgot about Antarctica. Are you living there?

According to German Wikipedia, there are currently 1106 people living, mostly researchers and (long-term (?)) tourists. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarktika

@gerald_leppert @andrej No, sorry, I don't live there.

@gerald_leppert @bortzmeyer i am keen on it bc I was tempted to go their to one of the stations as a technician once ;)

@mewmew Thanks for the question. Mastodon only allows 4 answer categories. Thus, I had to group 2 of the 6 continents (and I had forgotten Antarctica). I assumed that Europe has the largest share of users (but I didn't expect that Africa has just 1%, as of now). That's why I singled out Europe. Btw, I also thought that Asia has a larger share than the Americas.

@isi @gerald_leppert >mfw on a sheet of ice near the north pole

Checkmate, I'm not on any continent

@fristi @gerald_leppert antarctic is south pole and it has land underneath the ice

@isi @gerald_leppert Antarctica is a continent
The north pole unfortunately has no continent of its own, instead being composed of the northernmost bits of land from Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland (and maybe some others), with the rest of it being an ice sheet.

@fristi @isi @gerald_leppert …or are you? vsauce music

@Koishi @gerald_leppert @isi on the internet, nobody knows you're actually a dog 🐶

@Koishi @fristi @isi

Indeed, I simply forgot Antarctica. 🙄 Is anyone of you living there?

@gerald_leppert @Koishi @fristi @isi isn’t the nature of it mastodons design such that no posts are rly global with in the whole fediverse? as in every toot is kind of located, and won’t be seen by ppl ‘far’ from it unless they seek it out or seek out a tag that it’s tagged with?

@mousebot @Koishi @fristi @isi

Indeed, that's the case, generally a toot is not global. However, if someone boosts a toot (or this poll), then the outreach expands to other people and instances to whom the person is connected to. Boosted toots also appear in the local timeline of the person who boosts. So far, the poll has been boosted 288 times.