Rob Ricci

bsky-experiments/pkg/usercount/usercount.go at 8dc8cde7050751940989971513b3268474f74ae8 · jazware/bsky-experiments A handful of Go-based tools for poking around with BlueSky using the AT Protocol - jazware/bsky-experiments

Well, there's this code here: github.com/jazware/bsky...

Though it's not clear to me if this is called repeatedly or not.

mau vs. total users · Issue #2 · ricci/distributed-social-networks looks like the numbers for fedi are MAU (biggest: 277,461, mastodon.social mau on fedilist: 269004) but the numbers for bsky are total users https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/d54d278ab...

Yes, this appears to be what jaz's counts do: github.com/ricci/distri...

I made a tool that helps you quantify how much of your personal social network on Mastodon is moderated by which servers: moderation-explorer.online

Yeah the regular relays return basically the same counts (hence the counts on arewedecentralizedyet.online)

A screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing an 8.54% increase in the Shannon Index for the Atmosphere in the last week

Wow this past week is by far the biggest jump in the Shannon Index (measure of how spread out users are across PDSes) for the atproto world since I started tracking, right on

Additionally, the bigger the "space" the more messy and flawed it is guaranteed to become.

This is why I prefer relatively small, 'hosted' communities, that interact with one another

dozent's of us!

It can just be a service that says "yes"

A screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that the Atmosphere has been getting more decentralized over the last week

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

what in the actual regression to the mean

A screenshot of arewedecentralized.online showing that the one-week trend of the Atmosphere is towards decentralization

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

Yeah exactly. We need more letters or something

A map of the world with about two dozen countries colored green. These countries can be found on every content, but there are particular concentrations in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.

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 […]

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Interesting the failure mode for me is different, it loads whatever I was looking at last time I was in the app.

I'm now running my own atproto relay. Neat.

Now to figure out some reason to run it.

Definitely not fixed, I'm sad to report

I check that site out from time to time when I want the educational experience of seeing what people who are maximally wrong and maximally confident about it have to say

Screenshot of the database displayed on a web page, showing several organisations and their logos

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.

This is why I care about putting numbers into these conversations, so many of them repeat dogma endlessly, we need to actually know where we're at if we want to be able to tell if we're getting where we want to be

I think that for things to get spread out more it's going to take the rise of services that have their own distinct identity and are able to pull people based on their own 'brand'

Yep, this is exactly the tradeoff. The theory is that ability to move data will result in an ecosystem where platforms have incentive not to piss off their users. Clearly, that is not the state of practice right now. Will it be in the future? I think it's worth rooting for a world where it is

Side note, if you want to see some stats about how decentralization works for your personal account on the fediverse, check out moderation-explorer.online

... moderation to occur. AppView is the place where it's more feasible to hide posts and block accounts after-the-fact. So yes, there need to be more of these if there is going to be less power concentrated in Bluesky. And there are signs that could in fact come to pass.

If your posts are not on Bluesky's PDSe then at least they cannot delete them. That's something. I could be wrong on this, but I think the bigger point of control is the AppView rather than the relay - generally speaking, stuff flows through the relay quickly, so it's not much of a place for ...

... lead to something taking off in a big way in terms of users.

... combined. I run a site to track data like this, and what I saw was that a few weeks ago, there was enough growth on third party PDSes that it was starting to trend towards more spread out, but in the last week that's reversed. All of the development that's going on right now certainly *could* ..

I think the main thing that needs to happen in terms of spreading out user data is that we need to see some alternatives pick up enough steam that they add users at a rate equal to or faster than bluesky itself - right now bluesky PDSes are still adding users much faster than all of the others ...

I made a list of every available `jorts.TLD` domain last weekend if you need any more

Yeah it just did it to me again, v 1.108 - tapped on a Bluesky link in another app, the Bluesky app did open but showed me the post I had previously been looking at instead of the one I had linked to