Tootfinder

does anyone have a good blog / article criticizing bluesky? i remember lots of texts being thrown around on here about it not truly being decentralized. sadly i cannot find them now, would you help me with some links :D?

A Robust Decentralized Infrastructure for Trust-Aware Open Knowledge Sharing
#nanopublications

Earlier it was Tencent. Now it's Baidu (202.46.48.0/20) getting an iptables block from phpc.social because I like having decentralized social media reachable more than I like them scraping it for their LLMs or whatever (sorry Alibaba, had "Qwen" here a second ago, but I'll block y'all too if you try this crap).
#mastoadmin

what decentralized networks (tor, i2p, etc) are people still using and not just for mirrors of things on the clearnet? are there any cool ones?
#decentralization

Decentralized Social Media: What Creators Need To Know About Web3 Platforms
Most people don’t think about where their social media actually lives.
And if that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone. That’s a little too much power for a small group of people to wield.
Here’s the good news: A different kind of social media is starting to grow in the background. One built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.

Looks like the "decentralized" network went down today. The main page loads but no posts or feeds load at all, and sometimes I just get a 503. Nice.
#bluesky

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-form

GitHub's former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age
The developer tools startup said it's building better infrastructure for a future run by coding agents.

Dreams for the Web?
Reliable Private Fun /
No centralized points of control /
A game with many winners /
Lock the Web Open /
help people make money by publishing on the web (no middleman) /
_________, but decentralized (fill in cool service, e.g. google docs, tesla carOS, electronic tolls)
PublicAI: make progress on pressing issues like climate and healthcare.

What kinds of societies are capable of preserving knowledge across generations?
Libraries, archives, scientific repositories, and decentralized preservation projects have long understood that durability comes from constant stewardship.
Data is never simply stored once and for all;
It is continuously recreated through copying, verification, and migration.

Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?
When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect.

#EFF #Fediverse EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
How to Build a Decentralized Web That Truly Works for All
Thursday, September 17, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific - (Check Local Time)
Livestream followed by Q&A

@… Regarding:
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I'm far more active on Bluesky, where I haven't ever been forced to migrate from a dying server to a viable one.
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That IS the benefit of a service that is still mostly centralized. Per

Are We Decentralized Yet?
Statistics on how concentrated user accounts and data are across the Fediverse, the Atmosphere, web hosting, email, and other Internet infrastructure.

A local artist designed some sweet t-shirts and posters featuring the SF Bay Area Bench Collective, and is donating profits towards installing more community bus benches in SF and the East Bay:
https://unnaturalhabitats.com/pages/sfba-bench-collective
Mor…

SFBA Bench Collective
The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective is decentralized collaboration of local neighbors who build, install, and maintain much-needed benches, mainly at bus stops.

Good morning, lovely decentralized people in the #Fediverse. ☕
#mastodon

guten morgen! könntest Du vielleicht Deinen bluesky-account nach mastodon "bridgen", damit man Dir auch hier folgen kann? https://fed.brid.gy/docs#
hab grad erst gemerkt, dass ich Dich leider aus den augen verloren habe, weil der RSS-feed Deines blogs zzt. einen fehler wirft aufgrund der blog-überarbe…

On the Effects of Decentralized Moderation on Network Robustness and Information Diffusion in Mastodon [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.27149

Porn platforms, payment processors, and opaque algorithms should not decide which bodies, desires, fantasies, or communities are allowed to exist online.
I am preparing a talk about decentralized networks, erotic art, privacy, furry and anime-inspired work, kink, fantasy, and creative freedom.
https://wr…

Privacy, Pleasure, and Sharing
Public space is not only made of streets. It is also made of rooms. Chairs facing a stage. People sharing the same air. A microphone ...

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117168139124641297
I rather hope that decentralized media infrastructure _is_ a threat to the survival of the present U.S. government, but that's a question of timing -- and in case time is not on the side of the fighters, …

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DS/new
[1/2]:
- Inertial manifolds for the nonlocal parabolic problem
Xiaoqing Yang, Alexandre N. Carvalho, Chunyou Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00197 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036089642684807
- Why males compete rather than care, with an application to supplying collective goods
Sara L. Loo, Danya Rose, Michael Weight, Kristen Hawkes, Peter S. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/117036170847876781
- Sylvester's Theorem and Reduced Linear Systems: From Three-Factor Products to Small Dynamical Models
James M. Hyman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathHO_bot/117036100065935534
- Modeling Unknown Nonlocal PDE Systems via Flow Map Learning
Zhongshu Xu, Ying Li, Yanzhi Zhang, Dongbin Xiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00400 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117036316536728731
- Fundamental examples of height functions on closed manifolds and their 1st derivatives
Naoki Kitazawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00556 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117036201322109036
- Duck hunting with quantum mechanics
Artem Alexandrov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00579 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/117036126019380602
- Dynamics on graphs with disjoint cycles and applications
Pere Ara, Tran Quang Do, Tran Giang Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00587 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathRA_bot/117036105572329742
- Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions
Van An Nguyen, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01183 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117036523376490165
- Reputation-driven Cooperation in Lattice-based Decentralized Federated Learning through Evolution...
Huynh, Vinh, Lam, Truong, Bui, Dinh, Le Gia, Le Nguyen Nhat, Duong, Han, Nguyen, Trang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01197 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117036523769335776
- The Riemann Problem for a 3x3 Generalized Chaplygin Gas System with Variable Pressure
Thomas Allen, Ella Kim, Jonathan Nunes, Rita Xing, Charis Tsikkou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036470486364433
- Non-KKT Accumulation in Entropic Mirror Descent
Kuangyu Ding, Kim-Chuan Toh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/117036313981076116
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"Al Jazeera’s Nils Adler @nilsadler1 reports on how far-right ‘Active Clubs’ use fitness and camaraderie to recruit young white men while masking extremist ideology. Experts warn the decentralized groups are preparing members for real-world violence."
Far-right fitness clubs mask extremist recruitment, experts warn | The Far Right | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/6/aje-onl-nf_nationalism-3-0-nils-adler-060826

Collaborative System Failure Prognostics via Federated Longitudinal-Survival Modeling
Fan Yang, Madelyn Weller, Dimuthu Fernando, Hila Livneh, Yuxin Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26038 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26038
arXiv:2607.26038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-to-event modeling provides a systematic framework for estimating time-dependent failure risk, reliability, and remaining useful life (RUL) from longitudinal condition monitoring data. However, applying these models to distributed prognostics remains challenging because sensor trajectories and failure-time records are often stored across organizations or operational sites and cannot be centrally pooled due to privacy or proprietary constraints. Moreover, the classical Cox proportional hazards model relies on a nonseparable partial likelihood involving global risk sets, making direct optimization difficult under standard federated learning protocols. This paper presents a federated longitudinal-survival modeling framework for collaborative system failure prognostics. The proposed framework combines longitudinal sensor representation learning with a client-separable discrete-time hazard objective, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively train a prognostic model without sharing raw sensor measurements or individual failure records. Time-dependent representations extracted from multivariate sensor histories are used to estimate interval-specific failure hazards, reliability curves, and system RUL. Experiments on the four C-MAPSS turbofan engine degradation subsets under simulated decentralized settings demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently improves prognostic performance over isolated local training while maintaining performance comparable to centralized training across heterogeneous operating conditions and failure modes. These results demonstrate the potential of federated longitudinal-survival modeling for collaborative, data-aware condition monitoring and system failure prognostics.
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