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Title: Make a bot
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Slug: 05-s6-step-5
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Date: 2020-11-01 12:04
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Summary: How to make a bot?
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For this exercise we will make use of the digital infrastructure of the *Fediverse*. Darius Kazemi introduces this federated network in his video contribution ([*Watch it again here*](09-s3-question-5.html)).
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The Fediverse has grown into a social media space that is currently used by more then 5 million people. In contrast to social media platforms as Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, it consists of a whole range of different *kind of* social media: blogs, micro-bloggin, photo-sharing, video-sharing, link-sharing, etc.
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The federated structure of the Fediverse is an interesting infrastructure to work with in this exercise, in two ways.
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The Fediverse is designed for all sorts of different kinds of *formats* of publishing. This choice for multiplicity is furthermore reflected in the way the Fediverse is governed: instead of being a top-down governed platform, it is a federated network of networks. Each network is being shaped by an owner. Which is sometimes an individual, sometimes a group of peers that share the same interest and other times by an organisation. The owner of a network decides about the rules: who can publish? What kind of material can be published?
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To dive into bot making, we will that is specially prepared for this module. It is written in the programming language *Python* and is saved as a *Jupyter Notebooks*, which makes it possible to run this code from the web![^botexample]
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Let's make a bot!
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Please follow the link to proceed:
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<https://mybinder.org/v2/git/https%3A%2F%2Fgit.vvvvvvaria.org%2Fmb%2Fbots-as-digital-infrapunctures/master?filepath=content%2Fbot-example%2Fmastodon-bot.ipynb>
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# Footnotes
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[^botexample]: The bot-example is kindly hosted by *MyBinder* (<https://mybinder.org>). [EXPAND] |