Mapping The Mastodon Fediverse

#dataviz #network

Questions

• How many Mastodon instances are there?
• Which instances have the most users?
• What do the inter-instance networks look like?
• Can we compare Mastodon communities to Twitter communities? Is there any way to measure migration?
• Are there particularly interesting

How do we gather our data?

How does Mastodon work?

How can we automate scraping the info we need?