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

      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”.