fediverse.space 🌐

The map of the fediverse that you always wanted.

Requirements

• For everything:
  • Docker
  • Docker-compose
• For the scraper + API:
  • Python 3
• For laying out the graph:
  • Java
• For the frontend:
  • Yarn

Running it

Backend

• cp example.env .env and modify environment variables as required
• docker-compose build
• docker-compose up -d django
  • if you don't specify django, it'll also start gephi which should only be run as a regular one-off job
  • to run in production, run caddy rather than django

Frontend

• cd frontend && yarn install
• yarn start

Commands

Backend

After running the backend in Docker:

• docker-compose exec web python manage.py scrape scrapes the fediverse
  • It only scrapes instances that have not been scraped in the last 24 hours.
  • By default, it'll only scrape 50 instances in one go. If you want to scrape everything, pass the --all flag.
• docker-compose exec web python manage.py build_edges aggregates this information into edges with weights
• docker-compose run gephi java -Xmx1g -jar build/libs/graphBuilder.jar lays out the graph

To run in production, use docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.production.yml instead of just docker-compose.

Frontend

• yarn build to create an optimized build for deployment