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Great for Mastodon adoption for sure. And even better smarts on NWS for diversifying their alert systems, especially outside of a large corporate-owned platform
by andirk 3y ago
Great for Mastodon adoption for sure. And even better smarts on NWS for diversifying their alert systems, especially outside of a large corporate-owned platform.
- joezydeco 3y agoHe's operating outside of NWS by taking a converted feed from elsewhere. Iowa State I think. But he's offered to let the government take the whole thing over if they want. It's kind of important that someone does this, glad he stepped up. You have always been able to roll your own code as well. There are Python libraries to produce verbose readouts of FAA METAR reports, for example.
- andirk 3y agoGood point that the starting point of the data in this case is publicly available APIs, but, and this will sound backwards, centralizing ones main firehose on a decentralized platform seems like a great way to reach the masses, including individuals but also smaller media outlets that don't interface directly with those initial APIs.