Are We Decentralized Yet?#

Code and data to measure how distributed various networks are in practice.

This is used to feed https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ .

• BIndex.md: A proposal for a way of measuring blockability on distributed social networks
• centralization_stats.py <file.csv>: Computes Herfindahl–Hirschman index and other statistics. Pass --json to get machine-readable output
• data-fetchers/ contains various scripts to grab statistics from a number of sources
• data-static/ contains static versions of the data - some are fetched with scripts from data-fetchers/, others are one-time dumps from sources such as academic papers
• habib-paper/ code and data specifically related to the Habib et al. paper
• liu-paper/ code and data specifically related to the Liu et al. paper
• helpers/ helper scripts for things like running all data fetchers, maintaining the website
• www/ code for the website; intended for static hosting

TODO:

• Add matrix, see https://codeberg.org/ricci/are-we-decentralized-yet/issues/2