cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

  • qprimedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    this is really, really interesting. thank you for this.

    instance reach and relationships are pretty wild and I can see this helping people to mix up their communities between instances.

    the tight groupings of some instance communities might be source of pride or distress, depending.

    would be nice to select a community and query its n closest overlap neighbors or all neighbors within a certain distance.

    very cool project.

      • qprimedEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        as a followup to how useful your visualization is, I have started spreading comments across a wider selection of instance communities.

        this is something I have considered before, but your visulazation made the possible utility and usefulness of doing so much more “real”.