I select a few rss feeds, which it pipes every few hours through an LLM to classify into manually defined topics, those are finally displayed as streams of headlines. You can pick any news item and it fetches it for you in place. For every topic there's also a small frequency plot to know when interest grows or declines.

https://boliviadigest.val.run

Why the change.

Every server is its own funny mirror of the fediverse, often lacking large and interesting bits of context. How popular or active is this post in my timeline? Well, if I don't go hunting for it on its original server I may never know. The illusion of this being a common space frequently breaks down. I miss having a common space and the closest I'll get here is by joining the largest tent. So here I am. Hello!

Back on mastodon,

I collected stats from instances.social for almost a year ( https://github.com/mauforonda/mastodon_timeline ) mostly to make cute plots that showed where people were camping in the fediverse ( https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/what-goes-on-in-mastodon , https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/whatever-happened-at-mastodon ).

But oh boy it's not fun to always keep an eye for when a server decides to inflate its stats. Actually, some of the last spikes in fediverse user growth had nothing to do with muskification, but stuff like Firefish bad releases ( https://git.joinfirefish.org/firefish/firefish/-/issues/10759 )

While my mind is on the internet, my feet lie in Bolivia which is an interesting topic if only because most content and analysis on it are so poor. Over the years I've built many little projects where I try to illuminate my way around this mess through data I find in unusual places.

https://observablehq.com/collection/@mauforonda/datos-abiertos-del-gobierno-boliviano