I've received a lot of positive feedback regarding the world map of mastodon users, and also a lot of questions! :blush:
Instances countries are deduced from the instance IP, meaning japanese users residing on an instance hosted by a french provider would be marked as french.
At the moment, I see no other way to get instances countries. If you have any idea, question or feedback, please open an issue at https://github.com/EliotBerriot/mnm/issues or contact me here :)
@eliotberriot I wonder what rhe reason of sudden drop in users is. Did one of #instances crashed?
@crecca @eliotberriot The instance mstdn.jp with more than 40000 users had a problem and was reset today, with everything on it lost. It now only has around 1000 user.
@Feufochmar @crecca thanks for the heads up, it's nice to have some context about what is happening on the network!
@r3vlibre @Feufochmar @crecca thanks!
Maybe it would be great to gather data about such incidents in a structured way, I'll think about it.
@eliotberriot @Feufochmar yeah I just found it, see a toot by @nolan I just boosted.