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I really enjoyed this post with lots of info on Gemini, Gopher, history and the present day including links to software I haven’t tried yet. https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

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.

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.

Another research paper "Understanding Decentralized Social Feed Curation on Mastodon" https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18817 mentioning @… @…

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

Cool, #PhanpySocial mentioned here: "Decentralized Social Media Platforms as a Path to a More Resilient Information Ecosystem" https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/doi/10.11586/…

Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/variational-raises-50-million-series-a/

Variational raises $50 million Series A to bring liquidity from traditional markets to blockchain rails
The startup is seeking to set itself apart from Hyperliquid by sourcing liquidity from traditional providers.

Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web
@…, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem: audience growth.
:mastodon:

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Ukraine's energy revolution is being powered by women leaders and local communities. Through initiatives like 100 Solar Schools and 50 Solar Hospitals, the country is building resilience with decentralized renewable systems—solar panels and batteries that keep critical infrastructure running even during conflict. This shift toward energy independence shows how sustainable power can be a security strategy.

Women’s leadership is everywhere in Ukraine
This week Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Yuliana Onishchuk, founder and CEO of the Charitable organisation Energy Act for Ukraine Foundation. She explains how Russia’s full-scale invasion transformed solar energy in Ukraine from a green technology into a vital tool for survival, powering hospitals, schools, and communities during blackouts and attacks. Through the Energy Act for Ukraine Foundation, decentralized renewable energy and women-led initiatives are helping build resilience, p…

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

Even on my darkest days (like the last couple, today is better), I find so many amazing things and cool people here on Mastodon. I just wanted to thank you all for that. You're all part of that. I love the fedi.
#fediverse #decentralized

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.

The Trump sons’ crypto scam is about to make their family even more money.
World Liberty Financial,
the decentralized finance platform co-founded by Eric and Donald Jr.,
will almost certainly be approved for a national bank trust charter,
according to two former staffers at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency who spoke with NOTUS Tuesday.
It was “inconceivable” that World Liberty Financial wouldn’t be approved,
one of the staffers told NOTUS.

Trump Is About to Give His Sons’ Crypto Firm a Massive Boost
And get a new way to line his pockets in the process.

‼️ BlueSky-Bridging von @… beibehalten? ‼️
Seit > 2 Jahren bridge ich die Inhalte von Mastodon zu Bluesky mithilfe des Dienstes https://bsky.brid.gy.
Ich bin mir unsicher,…

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add "communities" this year, smaller spaces to "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/948215/bluesky-comm…

Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
Bluesky will be getting “communities” sometime this year, according to head of product Alex Benzer. They will be built on the decentralized AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky.

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I've always thought it was a bit ironic that git was designed to be perfectly decentralized, only to have Github become the one centralized way one uses git (for many people, at any rate).
But this post makes a good point: the centralization also means that it functions as a reliable archive. If a popular open source project spins up its own git server, and then later goes mostly defunct -- or least, the git server goes away -- the code is pretty much gone. But with git…

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 ...

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.

Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention
Can Savc{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06162 https://arxiv.org/…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
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- Insurance of Agentic AI
Quanyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05449 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116696535801623005
- Bitcoin After Block Rewards
Junhyuk Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05503 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116696457548098249
- Online Min-Cost Matching with General Arrivals
Josh Ascher, Eric Balkanski, Jason Chatzitheodorou, Vasilis Gkatzelis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05546 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116696483136717005
- Measuring Concentration of Power in Approval Voting Games
Takaaki Abe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05655 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econTH_bot/116696378312014137
- Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention
Can Savc{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06162 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/116696376542763270
- Regret Minimization with Adaptive Opponents in Repeated Games
Mingyang Liu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Tiancheng Yu, Kaiqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06486
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Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotific…

Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

GNStor: Design of GPU-Native High-Performance Remote All-Flash Array
Shushu Yi, Wenbo Wu, Guoci Chen, Junrong Zhu, Shengwen Liang, Mao Bo, Chenying Huan, Chen Tian, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04908 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04908 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04908
arXiv:2606.04908v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: GPU has become the leading computing device for a wide range of data-intensive applications, which tightly collaborates with remote all-flash array (AFA) to accommodate ever-expanding datasets, facilitate multi-client data sharing, and guarantee fault tolerance. Although GPU is the center of computation, all I/O processes in existing GPU-AFA systems are still CPU-centric. CPU orchestrates remote I/O requests and executes a centralized AFA engine to take charge of AFA-level functionalities (e.g., access control and metadata persistence). This design disparity suffers from substantial CPU-GPU interaction overhead and I/O traffic amplification, compromising end-to-end I/O performance.
In this work, we present \emph{GNStor}, a GPU-native AFA system that enables GPU to directly access remote AFA without CPU intervention in the I/O path, thereby fully exploiting the performance of AFA. Specifically, GNStor first proposes a GPU-centric NVMe over RDMA (NoR) software stack (named \emph{GNoR}), paving a fast path for GPUs to directly initiate NoR I/O requests to SSDs within remote AFA. GNoR employs an atomic-operation-based I/O orchestration design and follows the single-instruction-multiple-thread (SIMT) execution model of GPU, fully exploiting the massive parallelism of GPU architectures. To facilitate essential AFA functionalities in a CPU-bypass I/O path, GNStor further designs \emph{deEngine}, a decentralized AFA engine that seamlessly decomposes and integrates AFA-level tasks into each SSD firmware, thereby achieving efficient AFA access at low cost. Evaluation results show that GNStor achieves 3.2$\times$ higher I/O throughput and reduces application execution time by 31.1\%, compared to state-of-the-art AFA systems.
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