Maybe all of Lemmy could play a game like chess, pokemon, etc. Like twitch plays videos.

Sorry for commenting again but I think there is a way for you to do this in a completely open, easy, and privacy-preserving way. You don’t need to access their database.

1. Get a list of instances that you want to look at the subscription patterns for. (All the instances here + Lemmy.world)

2. Go to that instance’s website, click the “Communities” tab at the top, and then click “All” It shows how many users from that instance are subscribed to that community (both communities from that instance and outside of that instance)

If you find a way to automatically (or manually) scrape this data from all of those websites you can create the visualization that you were talking about.

So you were right, the data is open source it is just specific to each website.

From the comments that you have been making it seems like you have a very negative view of other people and their ability to work together towards things that they both want (i.e. shared goals). This might be informed by your life experience and honestly, I’m sorry for what you have experienced that has led to such a negatively focused view.

I can’t convince you that anarchism can be good if you believe this staunchly. All I can say is that if you look at your surroundings you could find that people do this all the time.

An example I like to think about is driving. You know almost nothing about other drivers (how sane they are, where they are going, etc.) but we still drive and trust other drivers not to crash into us, and a majority of the time people are able to get to where they are going unharmed. This is an example of anarchy working in our everyday lives.

So, anarchism is being dead? Because that’s what happens when you reject authority - they fucking kill you. No exceptions; barely any delays.

As for this, my philosophy is that as anarchists we should follow the ideas that are based on the paradox of tolerance.

If we want a tolerant society, we need to be intolerant of intolerant ideas, or else those intolerant ideas over time become the norm.

The same goes for freedom (which is what anarchists want for everyone)

If we want a free society, we need to resist people that want to dominate, or else everyone will be dominated.

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

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.

Personally I would love to see this kind of project done. But for it to work most people on the servers data that you are working with would have to be informed and given time to answer. I hope you reach out to the administrators of each instance and ask them if they would be ok with this and give them time to ask their users. Knowledge is power and if the visualization was public I think it could be helpful.

Whoever owns this account should change the server used to show piped links because this server doesn’t work anymore.

Are you talking about the commentors or the post? I am assuming you are talking about the commentors.