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:
Lol at the Commie Cluster
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Probably a webgl problem. I had to use ungoogled chromium to open the page. I think it works on regular firefox too.
I use Tor Browser. OP should generate an image or have some sort if fallback for noscript users
What do the axis mean?
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 donβt really mean anything in particular.
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
So itβs a map of the top 35 instances for the last month instead of a map of Lemmy.
The 36th most active instance is Lemy.lol with 143 monthly active users. Out of 47k total, that seems reasonable
