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Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…
Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +6
Microblogging is a crucial mode of online communication. However, launching a new microblogging platform remains challenging, largely due to network effects. This has resulted in e…
A Thorough Investigation of Content-Defined Chunking Algorithms for Data Deduplication
Marcel Gregoriadis, Leonhard Balduf, Björn Scheuermann +1
Data deduplication emerged as a powerful solution for reducing storage and bandwidth costs in cloud settings by eliminating redundancies at the level of chunks. This has spurred th…
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky
Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +5
The pitfalls of centralized social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter/X, have led to concerns about control, transparency, and accountability. Decentralized social networks hav…
The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS
Leonhard Balduf, Maciej Korczyński, Onur Ascigil +4
Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) is one of the largest peer-to-peer filesystems in operation. The network is the default storage layer for Web3 and is being presented as a solution…
Dude, where's my NFT? Distributed Infrastructures for Digital Art
Leonhard Balduf, Martin Florian, Björn Scheuermann
We explore issues relating to the storage of digital art, based on an empirical investigation into the storage of audiovisual data referenced by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We iden…
Monitoring Data Requests in Decentralized Data Storage Systems: A Case Study of IPFS
Leonhard Balduf, Sebastian Henningsen, Martin Florian +2
Decentralized data storage systems like the Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) are becoming increasingly popular, e. g., as a data layer in blockchain applications and for sharing co…