I guess that many fellow linguists and social media researchers who, like me, are new here, are already itching to compile corpora from Mastodon data. I have to admit, so do I. But all I can find on #scraping in toots, server rules and blogs is:
"Don't! Scrape! Mastodon!"
May this be the right time to rethink ingrained research habits, reconsider ethical standards and adapt to a new community and a different social media culture?
Any thoughts?
#researchethics @linguistics #corpuslinguistics
Very curious to see what happens when all us new people start either changing servers or adding accounts on new ones. Will we mostly stick to one server? Find 2-3 that reflect different interests and follow different people on each?
Clustering is awfully hard when the data points move around in response to one another’s behavior….
sorry this is not a good look for american realists
A reminder that there’s no horserace aspect to counting votes. No one “pulls ahead” in the count or “makes up ground” or “loses their lead” in any real sense. It’s just an artifact of the process, the order in which votes are counted, an order part mandated and part random.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1590027736243785729
“A reminder that there’s no horserace aspect to counting votes. No one “pulls ahead” in the count or “makes up ground” or “loses their lead” in any real sense. It’s just an artifact of the process, the order in which votes are counted, an order part mandated and part random.”
Bjørn Stærk
Mark Dang-Anh
Prof_BearB
Dan Nexon
Steve Saideman
Christian Erlinger