Rob Ricci

@ricci.io

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Research Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah Here, I mostly post about decentralization and social networks. I'm more active on other topics in the fediverse at https://discuss.systems/@ricci/ .

Screenshot of The ARTmosphere Leaflet blog, with no posts
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A screenshot of https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ showing a gauge with the HHI, an indicator that the Shannon Index is increasing, and a graph of values over the last 6 months.
Screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing "rest" of PDSes at 9.2%
Message from Google Families warning me of upcoming changes to my spouse's role in my family group, as if they are filing for divorce or something
A drone shot of Presidents Circle at the University of Utah. It has typical campus things (grand old buildings, less grand new buildings), lawns, etc. The foothills of the Wasatch Mountains are in the background.
A screenshot showing the one-week trend for decentralization on the Atmosphere. The top contributor is surf.social, which has added 921 active users
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A scene that resembles the popular "sickos" meme but the face looking through the door is Tux, the Linux penguin
Scene from Monty Python with a character saying "I got better..."
A screenshot of arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that the Atmosphere is currently decentralizing - PDSes such as Blacksky and Eurosky are cumulatively adding users faster than Bluesky's PDSes.
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Screenshot of a gauge showing centralization of Bluesky Trusted Verifiers, with an HHI value of 6795 - about 2/3 of the way through the scale from "competitive" to "centralized"
A screenshot of a map showing that most Bluesky accounts are hosted in the US, but not all of them. There are a number in Canada and Europe as well.
Screenshot of the site Are We Decentralized Yet, showing gauges for the Fediverse and the Atmosphere. There is a banner at the top indicating that it's using new data sources.
Kiki, a tuxedo cat, pauses in he middle of playing with a plush Jiji, the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service
The classic scene from The Princess Bride that would normally say "You Fool! You fell for one of the classic blunders!" but instead of the text, there are black redaction-like boxes.
A screenshot from https://moderation-explorer.online/ showing that 19.8% of the posts in my feed come from types.pl a server with 0.006% of the fediverse population. Second is mastodon.social, then all other posts come from servers with less than 0.5% of the fediverse population.
The Bluesky "View full Thread" button
A screenshot of arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that the Shannon Index, a measure of decentralization, has shot up almost 20% for the Atmosphere in the last week
A screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing an 8.54% increase in the Shannon Index for the Atmosphere in the last week
A screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that the Atmosphere has been getting more decentralized over the last week
A screenshot of arewedecentralized.online showing that the one-week trend of the Atmosphere is towards decentralization
Screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online showing that in the last week the Shannon Index, a measure of population diversity, has remained almost totally flat for the atmosphere
A screenshot from arewedecentralizedyet.online that shows concentration of user data on the Fediverse, Atmosphere, and Public Git Forges. In addition to the HHI, it now highlights trends in the Shannon index, showing that the Atmopshere is decentralizing and the other two are holding steady.