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Federated Online Social Network Monitoring - available

The Currently, the Mastodon network - with its 3 Million accounts distributed over +3000 servers - is widely regarded as one of the most successful alternative online social network projects around as of 2021yet. Since its inception, this network the network keeps evolving rapidly, and its decentralized nature poses novel challenges to any statistical network health analysis.

Your task is to:

  1. Research the current state of SOTA in mastodon/fediverse network monitoring.
  2. Apply those insights and your ingenuity to improve the situation, e.g. by
    1. implementing implement a public monitoring service directory
    2. improving the come up with alternative solutions to the current economic model for network health services

Network health monitoring is vital and needs to be done with ethical considerations in mind. And a thriving online social network that does not want to take money from surveillance capitalists needs at least free health care plan. (smile)

Further reading: https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon

Further watching: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-857362-die_rosarote_brille_des_fediverse

If you're interested, please contact Paul Fuxjäger (paul.fuxjaeger(at)univie.ac.at).



An IoT Retrofitting Proof of Concept - available

Household appliances are made to last longer than network or security standards. Most offer no support for network based communication and remote management, but provide serial ports for maintenance.

Your task is to select an appliance with an accessible serial port and connect to it using a wifi-enabled micro controller or raspberry pi and convice it to 


If you're interested, please contact Kaspar Lebloch (kaspar.lebloch@univie.ac.at)