Hi everyone, I have some technical questions regarding federation. Answers backed by documentation would be perfect.

  1. Is there a way to get the list of federated instances of a specific instance?
  2. (Regarding question 1, should this consider active followers between instances? If not actively defederated/blocked, when one account follows another from another instance, the two instances get federated, right?)
  3. Can I get a list of actively blocked/defederated/muted instances?
  4. How does this change between applications? Are for example Lemmy and Mastodon the same?

My goal is to possibly create a graph/network analysis.

Thank you for your help.

  • SamXavia@kbin.run
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    1 year ago
    1. https://fedidb.org/ This is a great site to find different Instances
    2. A person who runs the instance blocks ones that may be deemed as unsafe, you can further block users and sometimes instances depending on the instance (But this will only block it for your view)
    3. If the Instance displays it publicly than yes overwise no
    4. Mastodon is more towards what Twitter is like, as Lemmy is more towards Reddit, Crossover for them can be done on things like Kbin/Mbin but they are confusing to begin with. If you have a certain Social Media you like we can most likely find a Fediverse version