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Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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

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[โ€“] Zorothamya@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do the axis mean?

[โ€“] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

The original data had 21,000+ features. I used an algorithm to reduce the dimensions to 2 but keep a similar structure (so similar communities are close dissimilar communities are far away).

So the axes don't really mean anything in particular.

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