idk it’s my first time (kind of) trying to do dataviz, I thought the original post was super interesting but like other comments said, it was hard to read.

I think in a way it’s mostly because defederation is complex to show as links, since it is the break of said link, but hopefully this type of graph is better ?

you do lose the “group” of instances view, though (and also I did not bother with per instance MAU as raw number + percentage, or sofware used)

let me know what you think!

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I assume for you it may be because of your display type. But that made me think of colorblind people and how much this format probably totally excludes them as an entire swath of the population

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      But that made me think of colorblind people and how much this format probably totally excludes them as an entire swath of the population

      I’m colorblind. It does :/

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Do you have any design suggestions for op? (Assuming they’re the originators of this chart)

        Because as it is, this data is pretty hard to concisely portray. Whoever made this decided to use color, alone, which, even for me who is not colorblind, thinks could use some improvement. Design IS hard, the question is how.

        • inlandempire@jlai.luOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Chiming in as the OP, I used rawgraphs.io which only has 2 colour palettes for this amount of data (the first one only covers 7 colors the rest becomes grey), there’s the option to pick your own colours and I considered picking colours from instances logos so they would fit. No idea if that would have been better for accessibility. In general there are colourblind-friendly colour palettes suggestions out there and I should have checked them first!

        • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          In this particular instance, I don’t have many suggestions other than, maybe change the saturation?

          To give an example, the rainbow pride flag has always looked muddy to me;

          But I recently saw a colorblind friendly version that, to my eyes anyway, looks really good. I can much more easily distinguish the stripes in this one:

          I don’t know the exact mechanics of how these are different. But maybe there’s a lesson here about colorblind friendly stats representation?

          • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            You’ve managed to nerd snipe me with the colourblind friendly Pride flag, the second one somehow looks really good!