iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023

TL;DR

This paper introduces iDRAMA-Scored-2024, a large-scale dataset from an alternative social media platform, capturing community migration, discussions, and toxicity over four years to support research on online community behaviors and risks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive dataset of 57 million posts from Scored, including community migration data and sentence embeddings, enabling advanced analysis of fringe online communities.

Findings

Collected 57 million posts over four years

Identified 58 migrating communities from Reddit

Provided sentence embeddings for all posts

Abstract

Online web communities often face bans for violating platform policies, encouraging their migration to alternative platforms. This migration, however, can result in increased toxicity and unforeseen consequences on the new platform. In recent years, researchers have collected data from many alternative platforms, indicating coordinated efforts leading to offline events, conspiracy movements, hate speech propagation, and harassment. Thus, it becomes crucial to characterize and understand these alternative platforms. To advance research in this direction, we collect and release a large-scale dataset from Scored -- an alternative Reddit platform that sheltered banned fringe communities, for example, c/TheDonald (a prominent right-wing community) and c/GreatAwakening (a conspiratorial community). Over four years, we collected approximately 57M posts from Scored, with at least 58 communities identified as migrating from Reddit and over 950 communities created since the platform's inception. Furthermore, we provide sentence embeddings of all posts in our dataset, generated through a state-of-the-art model, to further advance the field in characterizing the discussions within these communities. We aim to provide these resources to facilitate their investigations without the need for extensive data collection and processing efforts.