It really should be proper fedi-etiquette for a community owner to seek out and link to similar communities in the side bar. Not sure why they don’t do that either.

Thanks!

Thanks for the support! I thought it would be a useful tool too. People could use it to find instances they didn’t know about, but which are popular in their network, or to find under appreciated instances to build bridges.

Anyway, sounds like database access is a must, and I’m not trying to take on a massive data wrangling exercise. I had it in my mind that the data were just sitting their for download, which was wishful thinking!

I didn’t know that about the plans. I thought it was by design. Thanks I won’t do this project then

Thanks for the correction. I guess is see the point

What do you mean? I thought it was an explicit feature of this place that literally all of it was public and nobody owns any of the data. Isn’t it just sitting there in the public domain?

If people know that’s how it works, they can’t get mad if someone does access the data. Especially for innocuous curiosities like this.

lol I won’t make you defend these people’s logic. Thanks for the warning!

Interesting. Isn’t it entirely public though?

Yes do it! I love specialized instances.

Somebody made an awesome list here https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances

It does not include an instance like the one you’re describing. Maybe the closest is terefere.eu, which appears to be down at time of writing.