The original version of The Truman Platform can be found here: https://github.com/cornellsml/truman
Named after the 1998 film, The Truman Show, The Truman Platform is an open-source, complete social media simulation platform. It was developed as part of a joint effort by the Cornell Social Media Lab (SML), led by former SML post-doc Dominic DiFranzo, to provide researchers a community research infrastructure to conduct social media experiments in ecologically-valid realistic environments. Researchers can create different social media environments with a repertoire of features and affordances that fit their research goals and purposes, while ensuring participants have a naturalistic social media experience.
This project and software development was supported by the National Science Foundation through IIS-1405634. Special thanks to everyone at Cornell Social Media Lab in the Department of Communication.
Also special thanks to Sahat Yalkabov and his Hackathon Starter project, which provided the basic organization for this project.
https://truman-2023-82f66bc03792.herokuapp.com/. You may enter a random 6-digit ID when prompted to make an account and provide a Mechanical Turk ID.
Please see https://truman.gitbook.io/the-truman-platform/ for more details on how to use this tool.