@vincent would be pretty cool if it displayed people who followed the specified account (yes, I'm following someone who has a Mastodon account that literally posts the same stuff, but bird.makeup is faster)

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@vincent@social.librem.one we have it banned too for spam

@thatonecalculator @vincent i spoke too soon then lol

honestly if there was like some sort of built in Twitter browser, I don't really give a **** about it being blocked for spam

i don't have a Twitter account and I don't want to deal with RSS ideally

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@vincent@social.librem.one I mean, there is a built in RSS reader in Calckey, just paste https://nitter.it/username/rss into the source and you're good to go.

@experiencersinternational@mstdn.social @vincent@social.librem.one (after adding the rss widget to your sidebar)

@thatonecalculator @vincent yeah, I prefer to have it more seamless though. plus, it's website only

@experiencersinternational@mstdn.social @vincent@social.librem.one fair enough. There's calckey servers that don't block birdsitelive which may suit you better 🤷

@thatonecalculator @experiencersinternational Care to elaborate on the why? There’s stuff I might be able to tweak to make bird.makeup a better fediverse citizen.

@vincent@social.librem.one @experiencersinternational@mstdn.social well I'm generally against the whole birdsitelive idea as a whole (since I think fedi and twt should be separate entities), but probably the biggest thing to do would be making sure that posts from twt accounts are rare limited at a much higher rate than that does by default and make sure the accounts are marked as bots (last time I checked they weren't?)

@thatonecalculator @vincent bird.makeup does classify as bots and clarifies that it's a Twitter replica

@experiencersinternational @thatonecalculator yeah, it’s been like that for a while. I found that there is only @IceCubesApp that displays that accounts are bots as much as I’d like (both in profile and on the home feed)

@thatonecalculator @experiencersinternational that’s some good feedback, thanks!

Re: rate limiting, what did you find was too much? Too many posts, media, replies, accounts? Or more like the traffic was too bursty?

@vincent@social.librem.one @experiencersinternational@mstdn.social too many accounts firstly, then too many posts, and lots of uneven, bursty traffic too.

@experiencersinternational @vincent @stux @thatonecalculator Yeah that’s pretty crazy, had no idea.

@baralheia I’m not sure it is possible on this end. Anyone can spin up an alternative instance of bird.makeup that doesn’t honour that since it’s open source. Stuff like that should be implemented on Twitter’s side

Working on a feature to help people find the people they want on the fediverse if they know their Twitter handle too

@vincent How would one go about preventing bird.makeup from mirroring an account from the Twitter side?

@vincent Repeatedly responding to requests for you to stop stealing artists' work by saying that other people could theoretically steal their work and therefore you will continue to do so is, the nastiest, slimiest, most vile way to respond. I hope you get sued.

Everyone everywhere should defederate from bird.makeup for its owner's unethical policy and abusive attitude.

#feditips

@JoeSondow @vincent Is it possible to have a redirect (like a migrated Mastodon account) for bird.makeup accounts with known fediverse analogues?

I'm just thinking of those people who are looking to re-follow a Twitter account but not realize there is a native account that they should be following instead. That is probably a common occurrence.

@steve @vincent They can find those links from the twitter bios or mastodon search, without any bird makeup accounts existing to add duplicates to the mastodon search results.