lateral is a user on hex.bz. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
Visualizing the data from instances.mastodon.xyz. Mastodon.social is far and away the largest network at the moment.
@wogan hmm, okay. Could fake it by creating as many dummy nodes as there are users on an instance though, wouldn't really matter.
Unless I would want to graph users who are active on several instances. Not that there is any way I knowing that (yet) though.
@lateral Not cleanly, no - there's no APIs for those yet. You can pretty much only see who's on an instance by interacting on it (or owning it).