I have a fair amount of experience with data visualization, analysis etc and thought it would be a fun project to try to visualize the Lemmy network, specifically which instances have strong links to one another via subscriptions from users in one to communities in the other.
How/where can I get that data?
EDIT: It sounds like many people would find this a violation of their data privacy and I simply shouldn’t do it. I had thought this kind of data was intended to be entirely accessible by design, but I learned something new!
Likely within the API, but I would say be cautious as people on the fediverse really do not like having their data scraped, especially for projects like this.
I think this is fine - people I’ve seen who objected to this kind of project were more about their account being indexed. Projects like respective size of instances were always fine
Interesting. Isn’t it entirely public though?
Yes, still doesn’t make people fine with it. People defederate over stuff like that on mastodon. It’s often seen as violating peoples privacy.
lol I won’t make you defend these people’s logic. Thanks for the warning!
Wow! Is that how little you care about other people?
What do you mean? I thought it was an explicit feature of this place that literally all of it was public and nobody owns any of the data. Isn’t it just sitting there in the public domain?
If people know that’s how it works, they can’t get mad if someone does access the data. Especially for innocuous curiosities like this.
The content of lemmy is in public, but is not in the public domain. They are different concepts.
