Mastodawn

WXFanatic Aug 1, 2023

Good morning y'all

For those that weren't aware, IEMBot from Iowa State has come to the Fediverse officially. I'll leave it up to the bot maintainers whether or not they would rather continue running their own version which many of you are most likely already following.

Either way, the list of the bots maintained on the Fediverse by IA State can be found from the official site here https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/projects/iembot/#bots

I appreciate all the bot maintainers. Thanks for all y'all have done! ❤️🤗

#Weather #WX

IEM :: IEMBot Project

Iowa Environmental Mesonet of Iowa State University

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BakersRelay Aug 2, 2023

@WXFanatic The biggest thing the IEM bots do is put specific warnings onto the state WX sites. That way people don’t have to scroll through 49 states to find THEIR states. I’m very excited to see if the IEM group adapts to the Fediverse hashtags. If it does it may free up some server space for @ai6yr and @lckrohjr

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Technodad Aug 2, 2023

@BakerRL75 @WXFanatic @ai6yr @lckrohjr iembots are also too chatty to have in your main feed (IMO), especially during #weather events. (Thinking Local Storm Reports especially.)

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BakersRelay

@technodad @WXFanatic @ai6yr @lckrohjr Well, the actual IEM group is publishing pieces of their reports that the general public would find EXTREMELY USEFUL if we can just get them up to speed up on the hash tag situation. If they don’t people will move on.