Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

@alvinashcraft that's gonna be a little Christmas present to myself 🤓

One question I get asked a lot about bird.makeup is: How fast is federation (time between tweet posted and on your fediverse timeline)? And how fast will it be in the future?

So we did fall to days with the influx of new users, which is unusable. I'm working on a few simple changes to bring in down to hours, and in the long term I want to bring in down to less than a single hour. It will never be realtime though, due to how I fetch tweets.

@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...

@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.

Welcome to the fediverse @oising !