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Cake day: Jul 11, 2023

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Thanks for the support! I thought it would be a useful tool too. People could use it to find instances they didn’t know about, but which are popular in their network, or to find under appreciated instances to build bridges.

Anyway, sounds like database access is a must, and I’m not trying to take on a massive data wrangling exercise. I had it in my mind that the data were just sitting their for download, which was wishful thinking!


I didn’t know that about the plans. I thought it was by design. Thanks I won’t do this project then



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.


lol I won’t make you defend these people’s logic. Thanks for the warning!



Where can I get the data about Lemmy subscription patterns?
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!
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Yes do it! I love specialized instances.

Somebody made an awesome list here https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances

It does not include an instance like the one you’re describing. Maybe the closest is terefere.eu, which appears to be down at time of writing.