@raphael That would be okay with me. Not importing accounts that are not active anymore would be great, but an optimization that fetches accounts that almost never posts or that are followed by a single person less often is something that is needed on my end anyway!
The error rate on accounts lookup is also high right now, so keep that in mind
@raphael I get rated limited on profiles lookup right now. I'll have to figure out an alternative way to get the information I want, or add more servers to spread the crawling on more IPs. I have some ideas for profiles especially, but people figuring things out about the twitter internal api and sending me them is always useful
Demand is very high for bird.makeup, I optimize things almost every weekend, but by the end of the week, more optimizations are needed! 🙃
“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
Some interesting fediverse stuff from the BBC! https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
@compuguy OVH, with the region in Québec, Canada. Powering bird.makeup with renewables is very important to me, and I have to say I'm very happy with OVH so far
@GeekMeSpeakStef I wish there were, but Twitter is closed platform, so only twitter to fediverse
Also I'm going to make it deploy automatically from sourcehut when I push new changes, this is going to save me so much time!
I did it! I now have a kubernetes cluster!
Here is the config for bird.makeup, for those curious: https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/k8s/dotmakeup.yaml
I'll see how it behaves in the next week or so, and then I'll start consolidating the various servers I have to it.
Also it's only in web server mode, it doesn't crawl yet. I will use the ordinal of the statefulset as the shard ID to enable crawling. Right now it has to be manually set per node
I'm so excited to share Mastopoet, a tool made by @raikas that allows you to capture Mastodon posts as beautiful images and share them across the Internet. This makes posts much more eye-catching in other social medias for instance.
Use the tool: https://mastopoet.ohjelmoi.fi/
Browse the source code: https://github.com/raikasdev/mastopoet
Mastopoet supports #MastodonBirdUI and options to show metrics in textual or icons or hide them completely.
Please note: If you use this tool to share toots, remember to copy the post text as alt text, thank you!
#Mastodon #MastodonTools #Mastopoet #Tools #MastodonTips #Fediverse #OpenSource
@ThaMunsta @admin Just to correct a thing: all the code is 100% open-source, and everything is there, but it's true I haven't done a walk-through of how it works exactly
Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around XOrg
-- Elon's weight in the XOrg vs. Wayland debate?
I posted about switching to Firefox as my "daily driver" browser as a little tiny step away from Chromium browser hegemony, and I had a ton of people in the replies suggesting I should just use Brave or Edge or Opera or Vivaldi instead.
I'm a little concerned that people don't realize just how pervasive this problem is. Every single one of those sits on top of the Chromium codebase.
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