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Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I had to try scraping the websites multiple times because of stupid bugs I put in the code beforehand, so I might of put more strain on the instances than I meant too. If I did this again it would hopefully be much less tolling on the servers.

As for the cost of scraping it actually isn't that hard I just had it running in the background most of the time.

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