Fediverse Jurisdiction Observatory

Data

The whole census, every column, one row per server — plus the per-link evidence behind every jurisdiction claim.

Census CSV · Parquet · Jurisdiction links CSV · summary JSON

Run 20260910T170344-classify-42c3a5 — 1,273 servers, 28 jurisdictions.

Recomputing the weighting

jurisdiction-links.csv is one row per (server, country, basis, weight, reason). If you disagree with the weights — and you might reasonably think a registry record should outrank a declaration, or that language should count for nothing — you can regroup that file and get a different answer without re-crawling anybody.

Tables beyond the census

tablewhat it holds
jurisdiction_linkone row per server, country and basis — the evidence
regime_signalwhich regulators a server has noticed (OSA, DSA, NetzDG, DMCA...)
activitytwelve weekly buckets of posts, logins and registrations
registrationRDAP: registrar, dates, nameservers, redaction status
cert_namehostnames observed in Certificate Transparency
rule, policy_textpublished rules and policies, hashed so changes are visible
probeevery HTTP request made, with status and timing — the provenance trail

Licence and attribution

The census is original measurement and free to reuse with credit. It derives in part from DB-IP's IP-to-country data, which is CC BY 4.0 — if you redistribute these files, carry that notice.

Corrections

If your server is described wrongly, the fix is usually in what it publishes: check your /api/v2/instance and your rules. If the hosting resolution is wrong — a stale IP, a CDN we failed to detect — that is our bug and worth reporting.