Tootfinder

Meta did this? I’m shocked!
(Meta is John Mastodon’s new bestie. https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/)

How Mastodon made friends with Meta
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

new things i want to learn now:
- geoDNS to route people to nearby servers (why do all the geo DNS servers look kinda janky?)
- TLS via acme protocol / let's encrypt, but without certbot

LooPIN: A PinFi protocol for decentralized computing
Yunwei Mao, Qi He, Ju Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09422 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

LooPIN: A PinFi protocol for decentralized computing
Networked computing power is a critical utility in the era of artificial intelligence. This paper presents a novel Physical Infrastructure Finance (PinFi) protocol designed to facilitate the distribution of computing power within networks in a decentralized manner. Addressing the core challenges of coordination, pricing, and liquidity in decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), the PinFi protocol introduces a distinctive dynamic pricing mechanism. It enables providers to allocate…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00393 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Inferring State Machine from the Protocol Implementation via Large Language Model
State machines play a pivotal role in augmenting the efficacy of protocol analyzing to unveil more vulnerabilities. However, the task of inferring state machines from network protocol implementations presents significant challenges. Traditional methods based on dynamic analysis often overlook crucial state transitions due to limited coverage, while static analysis faces difficulties with complex code structures and behaviors. To address these limitations, we propose an innovative state machine …

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09213 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Seeing the Unseen: The REVEAL protocol to expose the wireless Man-in-the-Middle
A Man-in-the-Middle (MiM) can collect over-the-air packets whether from a mobile or a base station, process them, possibly modify them, and forward them to the intended receiver. This paper exhibits the REVEAL protocol that can detect a MiM, whether it has half duplex capability, full duplex capability, or double full duplex capability. Protocol is based on synchronizing clocks between the mobile and the base station, with the MiM being detected if it interferes in the synchronization process. …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02571 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

The role of local bounds on neighborhoods in the network for scale-free state synchronization of multi-agent systems
This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to the state synchronization problem of homogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) via scale-free linear dynamic non-collaborative protocol for both continuous- and discrete-time. These conditions guarantee for which class of MAS, one can achieve scale-free state synchronization. We investigate protocol design with and without utilizing local bounds on neighborhood. The results show that the availability of local …

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Long post about my time on Nostr and how it compares to ActivityPub
So, after spending about 2 months on Nostr, I've decided to leave my account dormant there and come back to Fediverse as my "one true platform".
Let's do a postmortem.
What is Nostr?
Nostr is a protocol, much like ActivityPub or ATProto, but tries to solve problems that these platforms haven't.
The major difference is, your account is yours. There are "relays" there that are similar to instances here. However, unlike here, the relays don't always have a website attached and they don't "host" your account exclusively. Each relay you are a part of, has a copy of your profile and if you get "banned" from a relay, you just remove that relay from your connection and keep posting like normal.
There's many different things that Nostr can do, like microblogging, chat, streaming, communities similar to reddit, etc.
One of the other big features is that you can pay creators directly with the use of Bitcoin Lightning which I thought is a pretty neat idea. Though, with the amount of scammers in the crypto space, nobody wants to touch it anymore.
All of these things seemed good to me and I enjoyed engaging with the different systems. My issue, however, isn't with how the protocol is built, it's with the low engagement numbers.
Over my 2 months there, I've gained about 65 followers. Compared to Fediverse, that's REALLY low. Especially considering that there's only about 10% of followers that will engage with any post.
I'd even tried making exclusive Nostr themed content AND giving away Bitcoin Lightning (free money, anyone?) and only got a handful of interactions on each post.
It's good technology if you don't mind having to block stuff you don't want to see consistently. (Which I don't mind) But if the regular user doesn't get much out of the platform, they have no reason to put into the platform and that's pretty much where I'm at.
Fediverse continues to be the best social media platform for engagement. There are censorship issues here. (If you're banned by the biggest instances, you're pretty screwed) However, I don't have those problems.🤷
It was a good experiment nonetheless.
#Fediverse #Nostr #SocialMedia #ATproto #ActivityPub