Notices by Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems), page 2

@jdp23 @bnewbold

I think it's *probably* fair to leave PLC off the threat list for B-Index , since, as you say, it can be backed up (though I think one would have to get control of the domain to actually use the backups in a disaster). I'll focus on the relays.

And yeah the bad space and others like it are why I want to figure out how to include blocklists in the calculation for the fediverse; the hard part of course will be trying to get data on how widely they are used. I've been watching the bad space from the beginning and have my own concerns too. I *think* the tier0 lists from seirdy https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/ and oliphant https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists are more widely used, but frankly that's just a hunch, I want data. :) And whether you think seirdy's list is good or not (I happen to think it looks good), it's one person maintaining the tier0, so that significantly centralizes things for the B-Index for the fediverse.

BTW I just added git forges to the main stats page...

Saw a capitalized domain name and I'm still recovering

It's never too late for #caturday

@dan that is up there with the wildest URLs I have ever seen

POV: Olive has convinced you to play tug of war for the 15th time today

@evan @hamishcampbell @_elena

Since they have $100M in the bank, 3 is probably a way off. AFACT, they are currently doing both 1 and 2 in parallel; if you look at their protocol engineers, I do believe they are really all in on 1, but much of the rest of the company is taking every opportunity to act in a decentralized manner and going in the opposite direction.

pan people dancing in the club be like

I just want to remind people that - in addition to all of the other things it is - war is a mechanism for wealth transfer to people who already have most of the wealth. It can be understood as part of the decades-long project of the right to shovel more into the pockets of the wealthy.

@benroyce

some people are doing it right:

https://discuss.systems/@gwozniak/116202884714935538

@benroyce "prove you're not a bot" but it's "prove you are a cat"

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114376789614385099

My toxic trait is that I am secretly looking forward to our next stock market crash so that I can collect more pictures of this guy

My collecting activity has resumed

Starting to wonder if this is maybe the only guy left who is physically on a stock trading floor

Noem to become first US Special Envoy to FIFA

#caturday

@botvolution @DamonWakes This is the number of active accounts, I update them daily

Hachyderm is the El Paso of the Fediverse

It can be kind of hard to understand how big a server (instance) on the Fediverse really is. I know mastodon.social is much bigger than the server I'm on, but how much bigger, really?

So what if we compare the populations of servers to cities?

I built a tool for that! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/fedicities/

Let's compare mastodon.social, the biggest server on the Fediverse, to the biggest city in the world, Shanghai (pop 24.9M). In comparison, pixelfed.social is like Ahmedabad, India (pop 6.4M). hachyderm.io is like El Paso, Texas (pop 679K). The server I'm on, discuss.systems, is like Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany (pop 32.1K).

Cool but maybe I'm not so familiar with some of those cities. What if we compare to cities in Mexico? (mastodon.social is Mexico City, Hachyderm is Tepic) Or Ontario? (mastodon.social is Toronto, Hachyderm is Caledon).

Play around with this tool, select an area of the world you're familiar with, and get a better sense for how big all these servers really are! Check out what your own server is comparable to!

@DamonWakes hmmm... I assume this is after doing multiple searches, or is it on initial page load? Look like something isn't get cleared out properly

@DamonWakes hmm, I've tried searching for the same server and I'm getting more global results (a city in Japan) so I'm not sure what's going on here. I did have some bugs related to searching earlier so it seems quite possible I didn't squash them all

@liaizon if they do we *need* and activitypub adapter for it