The Observer

The goal of the project is to provide a 'no strings attatched' overview of public mastodon servers leveraging the strength of the BERTopic model and the extensible architecture ofthe project

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Architecture

Miro board here

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Setup

• It is preferable to run the project in a Linux environment or use wsl
• It is advised to run this project wither on the cloud, with a powerful VM instance or with at least 16GB or RAM and Linux

1. clone the directory with the git cli tool
2. chdir into the cloned directory
3. bash project_setup.sh
4. docker-compose build (This might take a while)

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Run

4. docker-compose up -d (If you have limited hardware, it might take a while)

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Configure Dashboard

5. in your local browser, browse http://localhost:5601/
6. Go to > Saved Objects > Import > TAP_Project/Data_Visualization/saved-objects/dashboard_export.ndjson > click import
7. Reload the page as is
8. Go to dashboard and select the 'the_observer' dashboard

Notes

Do with the project as you please, I designed it to be expandable and hihgly maintainable, therefore you can add other servers, other social medias so longs as you maintain the .jsonl format in the datastorage volume

End Result

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