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* independently tries to verify fediverse statistics
* draws conclusions from that
## infos / resources
## methodology
methodology of [fediverse.network](https://fediverse.network/info)
Currently the script starts from <https://post.lurk.org> and queries `/api/v1/instance/peers` to find servers it is peering with. For each of the peering servers it hasn't seen before it does the same and in addition it tries to query `/api/v1/instance` for meta data.
This method is a bit lacking because providing `/api/v1/instance` is voluntary and specific to later versions of mastodon/activitypub fediverse. We should study the methodology of [fediverse.network](https://fediverse.network/info) for better results.
When the request fails on a given instance it just logs it as 'error' now.
Latest scrape results can be found in `instance_scrape.json`
## TODO FIXME
* add detailed error message to json when we get one
* abstract the functions so we can multithread them