Have you ever wondered which cities are mentioned the most in the Fediverse?
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@maxpfe Thank you! I tested in the beginning different German speaking instances. Norden.social had quite different numbers for northern and southern cities. I also tested a relay, but this had way lower numbers. I guess mastodon.social is a good compromise. Otherwise, the software would create way more traffic.
In the end, accurately mapping a diverse federated service is never 100% accurate.
Sidenote: Munich is also a worse example because different Fediverse software will work/count munchen, münchen, and some people even use muc as hashtags.@sabrinkmann i also think mastodon.social is a good compromise. For Munich I would recommend sending the requests to muenchen.social instead of mastodon.social, because even the baseline is higher.
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@NousZLD I had to limit the project because of my time for this side project.
I guess belgium would be also harder because in the current setup I inly have one primary language for every country. I guess for switzerland this is still working?@sabrinkmann yeah, though I'm seeing "Geneva" has only three hits als "Genf", where you would expect it to be bigger than the little town of Lausanne (with 4, or even Zug with 27).
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Fedi Cities city hashtags are most active in the Fediverse?
data as of 12–13 June 2026:
#berlin 🇩🇪 1458
#hamburg 🇩🇪 1136
#paris 🇫🇷 660
#amsterdam 🇳🇱 594
#belfast 🇬🇧 431
#london 🇬🇧 430
#reading 🇬🇧 379
#tours 🇫🇷 338
#koln 🇩🇪 295
#wetter 🇩🇪 295
#dresden 🇩🇪 289
#rotterdam 🇳🇱 282
#bonn 🇩🇪 276
#bremen 🇩🇪 274
#almelo 🇳🇱 261
#munchen 🇩🇪 260
#groningen 🇳🇱 253
#lyon 🇫🇷 241
#leeuwarden 🇳🇱 237
#chemnitz 🇩🇪 230
#mainz 🇩🇪 222
#brandenburg 🇩🇪 220
#leipzig 🇩🇪 219
#zwolle 🇳🇱 200
#wimbledon 🇬🇧 194All results https://codeberg.org/54GradSoftware/fedi-cities/src/branch/pages/software/data/cities-result.csv [2/3]
@sabrinkmann, hmm… that list includes towns and possibly even villages. What's certain is that not every place listed is a city.
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Spontaneous listing/ranking for #cities in #germany which are mentioned most in the #Fediverse)
(#city: uses)
#berlin: 1458
#hamburg: 1136
#köln: 295
#wetter: 295
#dresden: 289
#bonn: 276
#bremen: 274
#münchen: 260
#chemnitz: 230
#mainz: 222
#wuppertal: 183
#erlangen: 181
#stuttgart: 176
#frankfurt: 172
#hannover: 170
#rostock: 164
#fürth: 157
#bochum: 152
#lübeck: 144
#neumarktoberpfalz 128 (how comes that much?)
#kiel: 128
#dortmund: 119
#nürnberg: 119
#forchheim: 116
#düsseldorf: 95
#karlsruhe: 95
#münster: 87wetter: 295 uses might be false cause "wetter" is not only a city but the german word for weather, and a very small city? But #essen (german word for eating / food and of tge biggest cities in germany) only has 62 uses, so it seems only real cities are mentioned.?
maybe some smaller cities but with a big university = more active users (students) are mentioned more often.?
@sabrinkmannBased on https://hachyderm.io/@sabrinkmann/116748232312273861
@synapsenkitzler hehe, Essen (the city) is mentioned by using EssenStadt or StadtEssen or EssenRuhr.
It's also the worst cityname to google with 🙄 -
@sabrinkmann, hmm… that list includes towns and possibly even villages. What's certain is that not every place listed is a city.
@lp0_on_fire
> A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City -
@ely_peddler this is one of timespan of data as of 12–13 June 2026 because the API only gives you 7 days of information. You can find the timespan on the Website
@sabrinkmann @ely_peddler
Thank you for this. I suspect that the British places Reading, as well as Deal and Sale, may be over-represented on the map! -
Have you ever wondered which cities are mentioned the most in the Fediverse? I did! I built a small tool that checks the hashtags for the biggest cities in DE, AT, CH, NL, GB, IT, FR and DK.
You can see the results on the map here: https://54gradsoftware.codeberg.page/fedi-cities/.
You can find the software here, along with a list of limitations: https://codeberg.org/54GradSoftware/fedi-cities.This is only a small, limited analysis, but you can see lots of dots everywhere, especially in bigger cities, and generally in Germany and the Netherlands. [1/3]
@sabrinkmann
This is funny because Reading gets featured because a lot of posts mention reading not Reading.
I'm from Reading and know at least 4 other posters who are.
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@sabrinkmann @ely_peddler
Thank you for this. I suspect that the British places Reading, as well as Deal and Sale, may be over-represented on the map!@Cameleopard @sabrinkmann Ely has some rather spicy entries which don't appear to a lot to do with this little cathedral city. :)
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@sabrinkmann
This is funny because Reading gets featured because a lot of posts mention reading not Reading.
I'm from Reading and know at least 4 other posters who are.
#rdguk@ArtBrew @sabrinkmann Also, Reading's not a city. We're a town, and we're proud of it.
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@sabrinkmann #Nice work! I think there are a few 'false positives', like the small town of #DAX in south-west and Nice, in the south-east of France ;-)
@pfsmet @sabrinkmann also the town #wetter is also more likely the German word for weather
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