Pro tip: If you're still using the bird site at all—even just to observe—but don't like the idea of helping Musk make money, do so using Tweeten (a TweetDeck alternative), which doesn't show you any ads. #Twitter
@couts I’m working on https://bird.makeup which allows you to follow Twitter users directly from Mastodon, and with no ads! Feel free to use it
@vincent @couts I’ve setup bird.makeup this weekend and I’m really happy with it overall. I did notice a few issues though which l’m not sure whether they could feasibly be fixed or are ActivityPub limitations… From what I can tell these also exist in BirdsiteLIVE.
- Video doesnt work, only the preview image is embedded, sample: https://ioc.exchange/@goldman@bird.makeup/109541301170710831
- Quote tweets dont work (I guess a link with a preciew card would work somehow?), sample: https://ioc.exchange/@taylorlorenz@bird.kuendig.io/109541315710217710
- Threads dont work, even if the related flags are enabled. I think the reply fields arent set correcty. sample: https://ioc.exchange/@thestudyofwar@bird.kuendig.io/109541227301798317
@chkuendig @couts Glad you like it!
I just pushed an update with regards to videos. They should work now, but do ping me if you see anything weird.
Threads is probably the next thing I want to make work great. I don't have unit tests for that part yet and I've probably broken them.
Quotes tweets are more complicated... They don't have a native equivalent and I'm not sure yet of the design I'll do. I can make them act like thread in the most simple cases
But anyway thanks for the feedback!
@couts Updated. I'll let you know how it goes.
Regarding QT: Having them as threads/replies will probably do (though that will mean you'll have to pull in the original post which usually isn't synced yet as it's from another user, no?)
@vincent oh nice! Thanks, I'll check it out.