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   Eric Schutte (ericschutte@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 08:39:30 JST Eric Schutte

   • br00t4c

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   Dear br00t4c,

   508096 toots in 16 months. Wow !!!!!
   Is this correct ? If so, can you tell me how you manage to send more than 43 toots EVERY hour (in 24 hours)?

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 08:39:28 JST br00t4c

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     @ericschutte My account is partly automated. The news stories are aggregated, curated and posted by my bot. The commentary is me.

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     Raindrops and Roses (raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 11:22:44 JST Raindrops and Roses

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     @br00t4c @ericschutte 😂 Or are you the guy from Limitless? LOL. Do you read the stories that your account posts or just skim some?

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 21:39:39 JST br00t4c

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     @raindrops_and_roses @ericschutte I use my feed as my primary news source. I built the tech behind this account to aggregate news stories for my self long ago and then it became... this. I read a lot of the articles but definitely nowhere near all of then.

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     Raindrops and Roses (raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:35:43 JST Raindrops and Roses

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     @br00t4c Cool. How do you decide which stories to push out on the account? Or is it random?

     Sorry for the questions. Your account is varied and posts interesting stuff. I stop myself from replying to most of your posts otherwise you'd a have a constant stream!

     Anyway, that's some commitment and judging from the number of followers, people find it useful.

     @ericschutte

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:41:24 JST br00t4c

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     @raindrops_and_roses @ericschutte I am so happy you find my feed useful! That really means a lot to me. 🙏🏽 Basically the bot fetches the RSS feeds for ~ 200 different left-leaning pubs that I enjoy reading. Criteria for selection is inclusion is a decent/defensible track record of factual reporting (I do sprinkle in some stuff that is a little further in the Tankie left than my personal political leanings to provide alternate perspectives). The rest is a bit of NLP/LLM magic to classify and tag

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:43:14 JST br00t4c

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     @raindrops_and_roses @ericschutte Just a very basic firehose of left-leaning news with some hashtags and salty commentary bolted on

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     Raindrops and Roses (raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:47:05 JST Raindrops and Roses

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     @br00t4c Works for me! I hope to do something like this one day but need to learn the skills.

     @ericschutte

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     br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 07:19:11 JST br00t4c

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     @ericschutte Thank you for the feedback. I take it to heart and have thought quite a bit about the issue of volume and pacing. I am erring on the side of flooding the zone with info in hopes that someone will find something useful stream... but that could change. I am trying to find a balance where I have broad coverage but don't annoy people. Haven't quite gotten there yet. Take care and thanks again for sharing your inisght!

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     Eric Schutte (ericschutte@mastodon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 07:19:13 JST Eric Schutte

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     @br00t4c Hello BR, thanx for explaining. A little feedback; I read some of your toots which confused me and I got a feeling like, is this a troll, a bot ? Because some of the toots don’t feel right but others are OK and interesting.
     It took me some time to see the enormous amount of toots you sent, that made me suspicious.
     Now I understand how you work I will follow more closely. If it is OK I will reply to the “hmmmmm🤔” toots.
     Greetings from the Netherlands.

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     Raindrops and Roses (raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 11:36:56 JST Raindrops and Roses

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     @br00t4c To the point made by @ericschutte some toots confuse like witchery, astrology, real housewives, etc. Your account, your prerogative but it feels contradictory to the science, politics, and humor stuff.

     Anyway, I will be quiet now. Just giving friendly feedback which you can throw out to the curb. 🙏