@thisismissem Do you think the broader fediverse would accept or reject an instance with a route that showed the ActivityPub messages passing between systems in a live 3d display?

I think it would be a fun visualization to build.

@v1sea depends what was displayed? Anything that were to reveal confidential or private information or content would be bad, I'd think?

@thisismissem Agreed. At a high level the goal is to visualize the interconnections between instances. It would be really neat to see the public posts flow between them. Maybe the favorites and boosts too.

I'm thinking about taking an explicit allow list approach to the message filtering.

@v1sea I don't think you'd have access to that data, unless you're doing something around the federated timeline. But the point still stands: be careful doing anything that could expose people's data in ways that they didn't consent to