Roblox Friend Path Finder: are you friends with David Baszucki? | FriendPath

[orangebird3alt]

Roblox Free Friend Path Finder [Six Degrees of Separation]
Are you friends with David Baszucki?

Try it out: friendpath.arbastro.com

See how many degrees of separation you are from any Roblox account on the platform, such as @david.baszucki, @erik.cassel, @RealKreek, @SpyderSammy, @jandel, @Shedletsky, @Coeptus, @TheRealShowspeedy, etc.

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How close are you to any Roblox player?
Are you friends with David Baszucki? Turns out, most Roblox players are only a handful of people away from Builderman, KreekCraft, or any other well-known account. This free tool traces those connections for you.

If you used to check this on areyoufriendswithdavid.com or areyoufriendswithdavid.xyz, those sites are no longer around. We added quite a bit more to what that site used to have, including mutual friend detection, a live 3D network graph, and shareable result links.

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Six degrees of separation
There’s a well-known theory that any two people on Earth are connected through six or fewer social connections, called Six Degrees of Separation, and it was first proposed in 1929 by Frigyes Karinthy.

The idea is that the world is smaller than it feels. Your friend knows someone who knows someone, and before long you’ve reached anyone. From data we’ve tested so far, the same usually holds true for Roblox. Learn more about the Six Degrees of Separation theory

What are degrees of separation?
If you’re friends with someone on Roblox, then that’s 1 degree of separation. If your friend is friends with David Baszucki, you’re 2 degrees of separation away from the Roblox CEO! This tool searches thousands of friend lists to find the shortest chain between any two accounts.

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Limitations
In 2023, the United Kingdom passed the Online Safety Act, which required platforms including Roblox to hide friend lists for accounts based in the UK. This means we cannot access friend data for British accounts, which reduces the total pool of paths our search can explore. In practice, the actual degrees of separation between two players might be lower than what we show, but the UK restrictions prevent us from finding those shorter routes. Learn more about the UK Online Safety Act
However, if @Roblox lifts this restriction for 18+ age-checked Roblox accounts in the UK, we’ll get closer to being able to accurately find the shortest path between two Roblox accounts:

Give 18+ verified UK users an option to make their connection list public

In March of this year, all accounts within the UK had their connection lists hidden due to the UK’s Online Safety Act. This was seemingly done in order to comply with the act by ensuring that children living in the UK are not visible in other users’ connection lists. However, this also affects adults living in the UK like myself, and I personally have no reason at all to have my connection/follower/following list hidden (nor is it legally required). It doesn’t make sense to blanket hide every U…

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FAQ:

Can you explain how this works?

Check out this reply: Roblox Friend Path Finder: are you friends with David Baszucki? | FriendPath - #24 by orangebird3alt

@orangebird3alt

It works by using the Roblox friends API to pull each user’s friend list:
https://friends.roblox.com/v1/users/{id}/friends
Then, it runs a bidirectional breadth-first search:

Image Source: Discovering the Power of Bidirectional BFS: A More Efficient Pathfinding Algorithm | by Zachary Freeman | Medium

The source I linked explains it a little complex, so to simplify, it basically expands outward from both usernames at the same time until there is a collision between the two networks.
The reason we do this instead of searching in one direction is because it is faster to only have to go half the depth on each side.
The site rotates across a few proxies that mirror Roblox API so it is faster and rate limits are not as big as a hurdle, and there is a concurrency pool so that it scans multiple users in parallel at every layer. Because of this, the site will be able to return most paths in under two minutes even if there is 5-6 degrees of separation.

Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong | zdimension

My account location is set to the United Kingdom, but I still want to see how far I am from someone. What should I do?

Until I figure out a workaround, check this reply suggested by @Hdiwowjbdsj (thank you!):
Roblox Friend Path Finder: are you friends with David Baszucki? | FriendPath - #34 by orangebird3alt

@orangebird3alt

I think @Hdiwowjbdsj is suggesting the following approach (which is honestly a great idea, well thought of):
(1) Check if you have any non-British accounts friended to your account (you probably do)
(2) Visit FriendPath and search the degrees of separation between that account, and the target account you’re interested in (for example, @david.baszucki)
(3) Add 1 to the number of degrees of separation returned. This gives a probable path between you and the target account, since you are already friends with that account.

Keep in mind that this won’t necessarily give the shortest possible path between you and the target user, but a normal probable path instead. Still, it should provide a close approximation and a reasonable margin to work with.

Why FriendPath? You've listed a few other games that achieve similar functionality too.

• Websites are more accessible than Roblox games
• The only other two major websites that achieved this functionality are both gone
• FriendPath shows you some other cool information too, such as 2D & 3D node graphs to visualize the process, % friend overlap details, detailed popups for individual accounts, API for anyone who’s looking to plug this into their own website or Roblox game, etc.

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Credits & Inspiration:

@ImATeapot418 / Kyle (@rbxXlXi on Twitter) for creating the .com version of “Are you friends with David Baszucki?” and keeping it active while it was!
@danodanya12Beta21 for creating the .xyz version of “Are you friends with David Baszucki?” and keeping it active while it was!
@nonorono2 for making Friendscape [Connection Paths] , a Roblox game version of this
@Duckitale for making [] Connections Finder!, another Roblox game version of this
@sircfenner for making Friend Connections, another Roblox game version of this

Learn more about the Bidirectional Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm

Discovering the Power of Bidirectional BFS: A More Efficient Pathfinding Algorithm | by Zachary Freeman | Medium
Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong | zdimension

Learn more about the Six Degrees of Separation theory

Six Degrees of Separation - The Decision Lab
Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia
CHAIN-LINKS by. Frigyes Karinthy. (1929, Everything is Different)

Other cool sites that apply this theory outside of Roblox

Naraview
The Oracle of Bacon
Six Degrees Of Kanye West

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Reply to this post with screenshots of your degrees of separation from notable Roblox accounts!

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[chickenpolp (Muffin)]

Such a cool service! I tried it myself.

[THEROBLOXAIN2 (therobloxian)]

Really interesting thanks for making this

[mlnitoon2]

how does it work ? very interesting. ive tried to do something similar but it took 30 minutes for someone super close

[Inkthirsty]

@orangebird3alt

Limitations
In 2023, the United Kingdom passed the Online Safety Act, which required platforms including Roblox to hide friend lists for accounts based in the UK. This means we cannot access friend data for British accounts, which reduces the total pool of paths our search can explore. In practice, the actual degrees of separation between two players might be lower than what we show, but the UK restrictions prevent us from finding those shorter routes. Learn more about the UK Online Safety Act
However, if @Roblox lifts this restriction for 18+ age-checked Roblox accounts in the UK, we’ll get closer to being able to accurately find the shortest path between two Roblox accounts:

oh right i forgot about this. wait until labour gets out then i guess this will be allowed

[pixe_ated (venv)]

you should cache the results in the URL to avoid having to perform a search again

Here are my results

image|503x499](upload://sNE8lZoRgSPDZ9ynjgvZPe7Fvf7.jpeg)

[Reditect]

this is pretty cool

results to the david man himself

[Sylmat]

Yeah pretty cool.

“KreekCraft” is entered/showed twice in the “Are you friends with XXXXX?” label

I feel like I’m cheating with my friend here knowing too many people

David

Shedletsky

Jandel

orangebird3alt

[orangebird3alt]

@Sylmat

“KreekCraft” is entered/showed twice in the “Are you friends with XXXXX?” label

I’ll take a look and fix it, thanks for letting me know! I’ll also replace it with his actual username, RealKreek (I think).
@Reinitialized is carrying here.

[orangebird3alt]

Thanks for the idea! I was really looking into doing this, but then I thought: let’s say someone posts a URL of their degrees of separation on Twitter. After doing so, many people unfriend them, many new people add them, etc., and if someone opens that URL in say, two months, it would be displaying what’s really not the shortest friend path, or even a potentially inaccurate friend path.

Also, I wanted new users who click a shared URL to be able to see the website work live, etc., since it shows them the process, making some people intrigued to try it out on more accounts.

I will probably add an “Download image” option however, which will include the website URL and the date captured in small text.

@pixe_ated

Here are my results

Wow, you have some great friends!

[breadflsh (breadfish)]

seriously HOW does this kid know david baszucki

1. Me
2. Alt
3. Old IRL
4. Old Mutual

[cybercrazyyy (cyber)]

i dont know if i wanna be friends with david baszucki bruh

[scooter_user (scooter)]

all roads leave from crazedbrick1

[Sylmat]

@orangebird3alt

Also, I wanted new users who click a shared URL to be able to see the website work live, etc., since it shows them the process, making some people intrigued to try it out on more accounts.

Doing so would count as making a search and directly prompt them to watch an ad, it wouldn’t be an idea scenario unless you increase the fpf_scan_count to 2 before prompting ads

[orangebird3alt]

Here’s my current logic. It only prompts them to watch an ad if they have already run a scan on the site before. It would make sense to make them watch an ad if they already ran a scan on the site before and are clicking on someone else’s share link. But if they have never used the site before, and they see their favorite content creator tweet a share link, then they’ll click it, and it doesn’t make them watch an ad (since it’s their first time using the site/running a scan). They see the results, like it, and want to test it out for themselves, and for that they will watch an ad.

I did not want to make share links fully adless, since people could abuse that by just inputting their username and then the target username into a sharelink and using that, thereby skipping the default ad prompt.

@Sylmat

fpf_scan_count to 2 before prompting ads

I could probably do this, just so people get an extra free scan.

At the moment, I am waiting on Google AdSense approval, and right now it just displays the template setup for AppLixir (which is another ad host company that I changed my mind on using since it’s very small and has reviews of scamming on Trustpilot). So, later today, I plan to disable the ad integration prompt and make it fully adless to use until I get Google AdSense approval.

[orangebird3alt]

@cybercrazyyy

i dont know if i wanna be friends with david baszucki bruh

Well, you could use this tool the other way around, and see the people you need to unfriend and avoid to stay farther away from him! Or, use it to see how close you are to accounts other than david.baszucki, like RealKreek, erik.cassel, TheRealShowspeedy, Shedletsky, etc.
Obviously, no path will exist to accounts like Roblox and builderman as those accounts have 0 friends.

[danodanya12Beta21 (John_Doe)]

Hi creator of the .xyz version of “Are you friends with David Baszucki?” Nice cool service!

[Moramics]

thats actually cool!

[Sylmat]

What I meant is if the share link is this for example, https://friendpath.arbastro.com/s/sylmat/david.baszucki, it would run an actual scan and increment the scan count.

I didn’t find a share button so I assume the url of the scan is the “share link”.

This means that if a user comes onto the link above as a “share ink” it increments the count, basically wasting their free scan.

You could however encode the scan path and return something like https://friendpath.arbastro.com?share=f8HfbS623hK for sharing. The site could then understand the user did not run a scan, but was instead lead on the site from a share link

[frrazers (Frazer)]