Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
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It's okay to tell your family you don't understand how their TV apps work either (even if you do).
Capping tech support is self care
@ticktok Not yet, no...
One thing I would like to add but doesn't solve everything you mention would be to redirect all followers from bird.makeup to their actual fediverse account once they join and set their twitter username to their fediverse handle.
@xuf mastodon.social has always been against bot accounts that replicate twitter, because they look like actual user but they are not. And it costs money to host those tweets.
I think it is reasonable. That's why we have multiple servers with different policies
So I've spent the day optimizing https://bird.makeup/ , should be faster now! Well at least for a few days at the rate at which people are signing up 🙃
Looks like mastodon.social has blocked bird.makeup (I don't disagree with that decision btw). If you want to continue using that service you will have to move servers, unfortunately...
Y'all are signing up for https://bird.makeup/ faster than I can make it scale 🤯
Normaly I would be on top of this, but it is Christmas, so it's going to take a few days for the sync to be back to normal...
Vincent Cloutier
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Hello Fediverse 👋 We're Third Room, the open, decentralized, immersive world platform built on the Matrix protocol by the people at @matrix https://thirdroom.io
@wenzel@masto.ai @elonmusk I'm actually using the same approach as Nitter to get around limitation! Still some work to do to make it more scalable though
https://bird.makeup/ has 900 users now 😵
@RaymondBarbour @awilbert It is getting busier that's for sure! Right now it takes a few hours to cycle through accounts, but I have lots of ideas to improve this.
@GPHemsley It takes a few hours to cycle through twitter accounts and push new tweets. How long have you been missing updates for?
@awilbert @christopher Yes, it is designed as a big instance. That bar comes from the original @BirdsiteLIVE . I'll switch it during my holiday break to the time of the last fetched tweet + the time it takes to iterate on all twitter accounts that are followed.
@awilbert @BikingViking @wspd7pio Thank you for doing user support for me! That is right, the service iterates on all twitter accounts that are followed, then forwards that to fediverse users. That whole process takes (for now) a few hours.
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Welcome to the fediverse @oising !
@kkremitzki I’m working on https://bird.makeup which allows you to follow Twitter users directly from Mastodon. Feel free to use it!
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Here's a neat interview with @blaine about Mastodon and how Fission is working to bring IPFS to the Fediverse. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
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One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.
With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
