ICYMI: arewedecentralizedyet.online now has some features that show trends over time so you can watch user data get spread out more, whether you like waffles or not, and as the atproto ecosystem grows

Well, the "DEC/ACC" strategy seems to be having a measurable impact

independent plc org, ietf, migrating back to bsky, patent pledge BROTHER WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED

Web trackers are *everywhere*! There are trackers embedded, to some degree or another, in most of the websites people visit. But where, actually *are* they? As in, where are they hosted? If you're in the USA or the EU, this is pretty well-studied. In the US […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

I'm now running my own atproto relay. Neat. Now to figure out some reason to run it.

I'll be updating https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap/ - which is a database of companies and organisation self-hosting (as in, on their own domain) an ActivityPub service of any kind. if you know of any, please let me know.

On my own PDS now, neat 👍

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

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Just a draft, but a very exciting draft to have www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

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Hey @rude1.blacksky.team I'm building arewedecentralizedyet.online as a project to watch the atmosphere decentralize (we hope). Since you don't know me, if you need them I can provide receipts that tracking the growth of blacksky is part of my explicit motivation. 1/2

Looks like a decent amount of people are using the weekend to migrate to a new PDS 👀

Decentralization will continue until moderation improves 📈 +30% vs. earlier this week

1,000 repos on blacksky.app 👀

where are we actually at for PLC mirrors? code: - github.com/bsky-watch/p... (golang) - tangled.sh/@parakeet.at... (rust, newer) - github.com/blacksky-alg... (python sqlite import) public instances: - plc.blebbit.dev (running bsky-watch impl i think, doesn't support /export endpoint?) - ???????

ok i pulled the whole plc.directory and am making it available faster plc.t3.storage.dev ^ s3-compatible public object store with weekly batches of the entire plc, up to ~1 week ago files are named like `plc.directory/{week-truncated-timestamp}.jsonl.jz`, eg: plc.t3.storage.dev/plc.director...

I'm looking for data about #email hosting "market share", and could use some pointers; If you know of a source that matches the following description, I'd appreciate it! My ideal data source would have a list of email providers and an estimate of how many users (ideally active but I'll take […]

If I implied that Reddit was driven by anti-AI sentiment that would be a mistake. But Reddit is driven by "wanting to profit from AI" sentiment, which is "anti-AI scraping sentiment."

arewedecentralizedyet.online grew a new feature! How decentralized are the public git forges? Find out!

I have some ideas for another metric for distributed social networks: # The B-Index The B-Index intends to model the number of entities that have blocking-level control over an account's participation in a distributed social network.

AT Protocol - Bluesky PBC Dominance Index burningtree.github.io/bsky-dominan...

How decentralized are the deployments of the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) and the Atmosphere (Bluesky, etc.)? I'm starting a project to track this! arewedecentralizedyet.online

@mackuba.eu - I'm playing around with ways to measure how distributed the social networks are - see social.coop/@bnewbold/11... for a thread with @bnewbold.net and @xgranade.com . Your blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pd... page has been a great data source; any chance I could get the data in CSV or JSON?