Post by @liaizon@social.wake.st

@liaizon@social.wake.st

2026-10-13 22:52 UTC

Fediverse.observer (one of the longest running fediverse instance and software trackers, as it started for Diaspora) shut down. I think it would be really good to figure out how we can at least get a copy of the historical data and get that back up somewhere. learned this thru https://cake.kobel.fyi/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/225784/fediverse-observer-is-offline-and-no-longer-being-developed

Replies (3)

@liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-10-13 23:31

hey @Epsilon_02@chaos.social, @6543@chaos.social I see you two are the ones working on the-federation (next) and now that fediverse.observer is gone and the-federation.info is no longer running it would be a great time to have something a little more robust up. Is the `next` project still planning on launching somewhere?

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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2026-10-13 23:37

@liaizon@social.wake.st Agreed, fully.

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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2026-10-13 22:57

@liaizon@social.wake.st I'm for backups of the data but also it should definitely be contextualized with, people (of those who have been indexed) have been lying in the API responses (as they should) since the start to make the graphs pretty&funny. Like it was an interesting collective-project but not an uncomplicatedly objective one. So hopefully the backups of the data somehow keep that context in or adjacent to them.

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