Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

It could have been oracle cloud but they wouldn’t even let me sign up lol

Just bought a VPS on OVH and added it the the crawling team of bird.makeup.

So we are now at 30 minutes to iterate on all twitter accounts, and 2/3 of the crawling servers are powered by 100% renewable energy. Nice!

New patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bumby-road-to-80934377

@aurynn people consented to it :

Snark aside, that’s why I tell people they should move to the fediverse, where there is none (or at least less) of that bullshit

@adam_ Everything about bird.makeup is designed for scale, so there is nothing to scale it down no. Code is open for tweaks though!

You can also use the latest code too, there are new workarounds for 429

I'm using some free cloud credits right now, but I'm thinking of investing some of the Patreon donation in something beefier than a Rasberry Pie that I can still run a home

So the raspberry pie constantly dies with a small portion of the traffic 💥

But I still used the new architecture with 2 servers on the cloud instead, and found a fix for the 429 errors. Looking more stable now, but I will continue to monitor it to see how that goes!

@aurynn 1) Twitter sells the tweets to third parties with no way to opt-out. I don't feel bad using the content of those that support Musk to grow the fediverse. The official recommendation of bird.makeup to delete their mirror is to delete their twitter account

2) I really don't want to promote terf and other hateful content, but I want people to be able to research hate and/or be able to organize counter-protests. It's a hard line to thread. Always happy to hear your thoughts on that though!

@aurynn hey! What’s wrong?

On my side, I’ve been having some problems pulling from Twitter in the last few days, and traffic has been spiky. Is it about that?

I'm also starting to think they made changes server-side also. I think I will have to make some changes to be more stealthy

@aisteel
Thanks!

ELI5 of how it works: you know how you can browse the twitter.com site and see tweets for free? bird.makeup is pretending to be humans doing that!

So we are at a point with bird.makeup where I'm sending to many requests to Twitter and I'm triggering some rates limits. The plan is to figure out Wireguard, than I'll split request half and half from the server to my home using a rasberry pie. Sounds fun!

(but expect relaying delays while I set that up)