For Mastodon in particular, the about page has an autogenerated table showing which instances they mute or block. However, this is optional. When creating a block or mute, one can choose whether to make it public.
@krinkle@darius oh, very nice! thanks a lot for the information.
It seems it should be relatively straightforward to scrape this information and assemble it into an optional [[graph]] of the [[fediverse]]? Do you know of such a thing being available somewhere?
@flancian@krinkle Very few instances I know of actually choose to expose their block lists though. Exposing who you block is a known attack surface, basically a provocation to say "here is who I don't like, come and get me if you don't like it"
But I don't get it, couldn't we go in a more "positive" direction and show which instances have high affinity by measuring e.g. number of mutual follows?
@krinkle @darius oh, very nice! thanks a lot for the information.
It seems it should be relatively straightforward to scrape this information and assemble it into an optional [[graph]] of the [[fediverse]]? Do you know of such a thing being available somewhere?
I know about https://gitlab.com/tao_oat/fediverse.space but I haven't tried it yet. Was thinking of setting it up.