lostinlightnew regional server ⛳
https://bath.social - a local social network for #Bath, #UK (#Hometown)
🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview
🔭 Interests and hobbies
• https://screenwriting.space - a place for storytellers
• https://solarpunks.social - network for #solarpunks
• https://rocketscientists.club - community of #3D artists and performers
• https://sunny.garden - for #indie creators who draw, sculpt, write, design, sing, build
• https://craftodon.social - for everyone who plays #Minecraft
• https://introvert.country
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• https://blahaj.social - for people who own at least 1 IKEA BLÅHAJ
🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview
🎨 https://artworld.social - for artists, curators, art critics, gallerists, collectors, journalists, educators, researchers, specializing in contemporary #art
⛺ https://tyrol.social - #Tyrol area
⛺ https://hameln.social - #Hameln #Germany
🎲 https://dungeons.social - #RPG and #tabletop
artworld.social
artworld.social is a federated social media for artists, curators, art critics, scholars, educators, journalists, gallerists, collectors, administrators, any kind of cultural agents involved in the art worlds across the globe, specializing in contemporary art.
🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview
🚄 https://rail.chat - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight #rail networks, for economic, environmental and equity benefits
⛺ https://krems.social - Krems, #Austria
🎨 https://mensmaaktmooi.nl - community for creative thinkers with unconventional mindset who make beautiful things (#Dutch)
🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview
⛺ Regional
• https://bizkaia.social - #Bizkaia
• https://andalucia.social - #Andalucía
💻 Work
• https://presentadistance.social - discussions about #remote work, telecommuting, team spirit and remote collaborator experience
🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview
Some new #German ⛺ regional servers
• https://nahe.social - #Nahe region
• https://moessingen.social - Mössingen area #Moessingen
• https://odenwald.social - #Odenwald area
Welcome to all #Fediverse newcomers! 👋
Hopefully, we'll see more themed servers and communities too!
🌌 Some recent additions to the network (1/2):
• https://fediverse.co.za - South #Africa
• https://fedisabled.social - for all disabled people
• https://recht.social - focus on #legal topics
• https://sciencemastodon.com - for #science journalists and scientists
• https://dju.social - German #journalists union
🌌 Some recent additions to the network (2/2):
• https://apotheke.social - for anyone from the #pharmacy sector
• https://medic.cafe - for employees in the #medical field
• https://aircrew.rocks - for #pilots, #flight attendants, and flight enthusiasts
• https://genart.social - for #artists working in the generative, AI, and glitch spaces
• https://mastodon.tech - English language #tech and open source
🌌 New themed servers in #Fediverse network (1/3):
• https://astrodon.social - for anyone interested in #astronomy, #astrophysics, #astrophotography, and adjacent sciences
• https://sciences.social - for social #scientists
• https://mstdn.science - for #microbiologists, scientists in general, and #science enthusiasts
• https://earthlings.social - for all precious earthlings
🌌 New themed servers in Fedi network (2/3):
• https://indiepocalypse.social - for independent #creators of all sorts
• https://makerspace.social - space for makers (#CNC, #woodworking, #microcontrollers, etc)
• https://3dp.chat - #3D printing
• https://brettspiel.space - for #boardgame players
• https://podcasts.social - for #podcasters
🌌 New themed servers in #Fedi network (3/3):
• https://techspace.social - for techies and tech-curious people
• https://techhub.social - for passionate technologists
• https://k8s.social - for #Kubernetes, container and #cloud native enthusiasts
• https://urbanists.social - for people who like #bikes, transit, and walkable #cities
• https://bikejam.social - for bike and pedestrian #infrastructure
• https://bahn.social - for #rail enthusiasts
Now new themed communities appear daily. 😃
I don't want to bore you with server posts. 🤔 So I'll occasionally post only about the ones that caught my attention. For anyone interested in all updates, check the source: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commits/branch/main/source/en/portal/servers/index.md
Also, feel free to filter out the *fediworld* tag in your Filter settings, if you wish to mute such "server posts".
🌌 New themed servers in #Fediverse:
• https://archaeo.social - for #archaeologists, historians and lovers of all things ancient
• https://astronomy.city - for #astronomy and astronomy-adjacent users
• https://astronomy.social - astronomy, #space travel
• https://cartoonist.social - community for #cartoonists
• https://graphics.social - computer graphics community #3D #2D
• https://veterinary.education - #veterinary medicine
Nemo_bis 🌈Sometimes we also have to remove many instances from the #FediParty list. :(
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commit/8c0538bf0cc55e693e5818f04e12d1ca3c9889d7
Instances behind #CloudFlare aren't listed, because there are already hundreds, and this centralises a lot of #fediverse network traffic in #AS13335.
Ghost of John Adams@nemobis Why would what AS fediverse traffic comes from matter at all?
@gja As a matter of general principle, some people see the fediverse as something intended to be decentralised. Routing a large part of the traffic through the same network increases centralisation.
On a practical level, in general, concentration of traffic simplifies the deployment of #TrafficAnalysis / #TrafficCorrelation de-anonymization attacks.
https://zenodo.org/record/7395561
Poster
Tor is the most popular anonymity network in the world. It relies on advanced security and obfuscation techniques to ensure the privacy of its users and free access to the Internet. However, the investigation of traffic correlation attacks against Tor Onion Services (OSes) has been relatively overlooked in the literature. In particular, determining whether it is possible to emulate a global passive adversary capable of deanonymizing the IP addresses of both the Tor OSes and of the clients accessing them has remained, so far, an open question. In this paper, we present ongoing work toward addressing this question and reveal some preliminary results on a scalable traffic correlation attack that can potentially be used to deanonymize Tor OS sessions. Our attack is based on a distributed architecture involving a group of colluding ISPs from across the world. After collecting Tor traffic samples at multiple vantage points, ISPs can run them through a pipeline where several stages of traffic classifiers employ complementary techniques that result in the deanonymization of OS sessions with high confidence (i.e., low false positives). We have responsibly disclosed our early results with the Tor Project team and are currently working not only on improving the effectiveness of our attack but also on developing countermeasures to preserve Tor users' privacy.
@nemobis So basically fediverse.party is projecting their idea that the Fediverse should be like a blockchain because decentralization somehows matters?
@gja I have no idea what this has to do with the blockchain.
@nemobis Decentralization is irrelevant for the Fediverse. By this logic should delist AWS, GCP, Hetzner hosted instances as well.
@gja Instances on AWS and GCP aren't that many. Hetzner and OVH may become too big, yes. See also the #MastoHost commitment:
https://masto.host/the-25-percent-commitment/
Anyway, I'm not trying to convince you. It's ok if you don't care or you disagree. We can have different lists of instances based on different criteria.
@nemobis I'd put money that more instances are running in AWS than are using Cloudflare.
Masto.host's post isn't germane since Cloudflare isn't hosting these instances, just doing DDOS protection or CDN.
But yeah, you might want to update your 'goals' to include 'attempting to foist my silly personal axe to grind against cloudflare on other instance operations'