This is a bit hackier than usual. I’ve been wanting to make wordclouds for a long time and I’ve been wanting to use wordclouds to try to look at what the ICYMI (ADN) bot boosts for a long time. I now have data for most of Q1 of 2024 (to be precise, January 08-April 03, 2024). I’ve used most of the data analysis code from previous monthly reports but done some adjusting to let me look at the text of the toots which are boosted.

In January the bot was moved from one instance (server) to another, principally because it was no longer seeing toots from unfollowed accounts which had relevant hashtags on the older instance. There is more detail about this in my initial discussion of what I thought was wrong and my plan of how to try to fix it.

As described in an earlier post about problems with the bot, the ICYMI (ADN) bot has not been seeing a fairly large set of possible inputs for some time, has worked only as an aggregator of a (small) fixed set of accounts, and not worked with the wider range of possibly-relevant toots to amplify those as well. This is what I’m going to do to fix things.

The ICYMI (ADN) bot has not been seeing a fairly large set of possible inputs for some time, meaning that it has only seen the accounts which it follows directly and essentially worked as an aggregator of a (small) fixed set of accounts, instead of also being able to look at a wider range of possibly-relevant toots and amplify those as well.

Introduction

Introduction