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Vincent Cloutier  

New little feature on bird.makeup this weekend: the account page will now display the number of followers a user has, and also in which server that account is the most popular.

Hope this will help users find more niche servers that host the communities they want to be part of! Also if you are on a server like mastodon.social that bans bird.makeup and you want to move, this is now my recommended way to find a new home

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Vincent Cloutier  

Proud to introduce my new activitypub project: bird.makeup . Do you wish to follow on mastodon some people that are still on the bird site? Now you can! You can even follow the muskrat if you want @elonmusk (but why would you?)

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Vincent Cloutier  

I have been obsessing over Stable Diffusion over the last few weeks, and I wanted to to a quick thread of my best results so far 👇

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Aks  
#Github #enshittification well on its way
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Vincent Cloutier  

New cool feature on bird.makeup this morning: pinned tweets!

They show as native pinned toots and they are not affected by the 100 top tweets limitation.

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abadidea  

work laptop has gained another level in untitled

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Vincent Cloutier  

To fix the crawling, I'm going to need to start using Twitter accounts to fetch new posts. This is getting complicated for the time I can put on this as a side project, so I'm going to rely on Nitter implementing this, then I'm going to use that. You can track progress here: github.com/zedeus/nitter/issue

There is another thing I can fix natively in bird.makeup though. I noticed pinned tweets are there in user lookups. I can forward this, and the top 100 limitation doesn't apply to that.

2/2

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Vincent Cloutier  

I'm getting a lot of question about what's currently working with bird.makeup, so here it is:

The system is mostly back online, but there are some major limitation when crawling new posts.

- To be forwarded, a post has to be in the top 100 of an account as measured by likes
- There are no retweets being forwarded right now

1/2

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Vincent Cloutier  

One really useful thing Nitter could do is to log the id of new tweets (and their author) as it encounters them during normal operation. Bird.makeup could simply hook into that byproduct and it can already figure out the rest on its own.

I’ll sleep on it and if I still like it I’ll propose it to the nitter dev

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And no retweets, but I did notice I can get pinned tweets though

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And we are back*, baby!

* with the limitation on popular tweets for now

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Vincent Cloutier  

Currently setting up a mastodon instance and it looks like all requests have a 20 second delay added. It's driving me crazy!

Anyone knows what's up? My google-fu is giving me nothing

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Troy  

Hmm there’s a lot fewer bot posts this morning than normal. I gave it 200 guest accounts and if that’s not enough to prevent being rate limited… oof. Whatever it’s Elons server resources that are being taxed the most.

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Vincent Cloutier  

So they are all green right now, and the fetching tweets part works from my computer and CI, but not from any of the servers... The approach of fetching tweets from the embeds doesn't seem to work....

FML, and back to the drawing board!

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Liam  

I can't even...they're going to remove blocking from #Twitter or #X or whatever the fuck it's called today.

This is absolutely brain-dead. Muting only stops you seeing them. Blocking prevents them replying with shit that others will see, that you then can't see. Removing blocking is just so stupid.

So many reasons why a hard block is necessary from bots to harassment. They don't stop just because you can't see them ffs.

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Vincent Cloutier  

I will continue with something homegrown for users and individual tweets, but I'm thinking if I should add a dependency on nitter to fetch timelines 🤔

The lead dev has timelines working again already: github.com/zedeus/nitter/issue

While having everything built-in is neat, strategies to crawl are getting more complicated and it's starting to take a lot of time to re-implement things in C#

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Vincent Cloutier  

More checkmarks are green today!

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Luke Johnson  

@vincent I'm loving the conflicting poll responses so far. "Fixing bird isn't worth it! But you should do it!"

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Vincent Cloutier  

I have also been prototyping bird.makeup for Instagram, which will be called kilogram.makeup.

Should I focus my energy on that instead?

162 people · Aug 20, 2023, 14:32
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Vincent Cloutier  

@jerome I designed bird.makeup from the beginning to rely on endpoints that would break major use-cases of their product like yours if they ever remove them.

Turns out Elon is perfectly willing to break them, which completely blows my mind

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Fabian Pimminger  

🤯

"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/24

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Vincent Cloutier  

Looks like Twitter has made it so that when you look up a profile without being logged in, you see posts ranked by likes instead of by time. This will be a problem…

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Mark Riedl  

TweetDeck still runs, but it is hidden 

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