Paper 'Decentralized Social Networks and the Future of Free Speech Online' published on 11-06-2024 and zero hits if your look for Nostr.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06934
Sorry, to me you've failed as a researcher Mr Tao Huang.
Discussion
Cornell none the less!! Some interesting takes, but missing Nostr, they totally dropped the ball on the “promise of decentralization”.
To be at least a little bit fair to the researcher, there are dozens of different protocols, networks, and attempts happening concurrently at any given moment.
Yeah, missing out on Nostr is unfortunate, but I'll bet he didn't mention XMPP, Matrix, Zot, OStatus, Tent, Diaspora, Farcaster, and on and on and on. Sure, most of those things are either dead or even smaller than Nostr, but this collective effort has been going on for like 20 years now.
My point is, in a space where there's always yet another effort that's not known widely about within a group, it's a guarantee that someone will feel slighted because their specific thing got no credit.
Don't know how these researchers work for papers, but I assume they start with a certain main question...and then going to research the fields out in the wild. Especially when the question is future focused, you must research the status-quo (and not only two protocols/platform?).
I'm following all those initiatives you mention and when you are going to do some research, you will find them. In my opinion, you could at least mention them why or why not you included those...