So here is a brief overview of our new project FediSea.
We are developing a Fediverse crawler which discovers and collects data about Fediverse instances. Then there will be an open API which provides this data.
The website will show statistics and information about the fediverse and there will be a clear API documentation.
All three Github repos (crawler, API and frontend) will be made public within the next few days.
We know that there are multiple similar services out there (FediDB, Fediverse Observer, ...).
The real reason we came up with that project is more the interest in the developing aspects.
We always wanted to create some kind of crawler and check out the Rust language. That's why we are writing the crawler in Rust.
Another thing we always wanted to learn is Spring Boot. So we are using it for our API.
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