Mastodon is a social network based on open web protocols and free, open-source software. The University of Twente is the _rst Dutch university that runs it own Mastodon instance. Currently, there are not a lot of users using the Mastodon of the University of Twente. One of the best ways to lure users to a social network is to let users tell acquaintances that they use Mastodon. But if there are not a lot of active users, how can we increase that number? An option is to lure them with an online multiplayer game. We created a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) game. This is how we tried increasing the amount of active users on the Mastodon server of the University of Twente. When playing the MUD a player can follow the storyline or perform side quests. Since we will use a Mastodon-bot, players can interact with other players via Mastodon. We hope that players gain more social contacts and lure even more people to the Mastodon network and to the MUD.
Mastodon is a social network based on open web protocols and free, open-source software. The University of Twente is the _rst Dutch university that runs it own Mastodon instance. Currently, there are not a lot of users using the Mastodon of the University of Twente. One of the best ways to lure users to a social network is to let users tell acquaintances that they use Mastodon. But if there are not a lot of active users, how can we increase that number? An option is to lure them with an online multiplayer game. We created a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) game. This is how we tried increasing the amount of active users on the Mastodon server of the University of Twente. When playing the MUD a player can follow the storyline or perform side quests. Since we will use a Mastodon-bot, players can interact with other players via Mastodon. We hope that players gain more social contacts and lure even more people to the Mastodon network and to the MUD.
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