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Where can I get the data about Lemmy subscription patterns? (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mookulator@mander.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Danterious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are interested there is a professor named Damon Centola that might be interested in dedicating time to gathering that data and might help with the visualization as well. If you are in the sociologist space or just interested you could reach out to him.

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] Danterious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No problem just notify me if you ever decide to follow through.