Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

The main bottleneck I have right now is fetching tweets, but not posting them, so if you follow the accounts that are the most popular, it won't slow down things at all 👇

@jay I would recommend having a whitelist at your reverse proxy that only allows for your mastodon instance's IP.

Also whitelist for accounts are probably going away eventually

@mcr314 @awilbert Thanks! 😄 I will setup a patreon eventually

@cautionwip @awilbert @wspd7pio No, it's because bird.makeup is very loaded at this moment. My goal with the optimizations I'm doing is that tweets are replicated within an hour, but we are more at like 4-5 hours behind right now

@eingfoan @def You can simply unfollow. It's one of the optimization I did yesterday: if no one follows an account, bird.makeup won't have any work to do!

So I spent the whole day optimizing bird.makeup and got about a 5x in performance. Things are starting to run better, seems we are iterating on all accounts within 4-5 hours right now. I have other ideas that will probably get another 3x that I want to implement tonight, so performance should be right on target.

Until more people sign up of course! 🙃

@christopher I mean they did fire everyone working on that! 😇

But seriously as long as people can see tweets without logging in I can make it work

@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...