Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

@condalmo That could work, thanks! If someone post again, it will break a test, but that looks good enough

Ok I have a weird request to help me build bird.makeup:

Do you know twitter accounts of dead people, ideally famous? They have to not be taken over by someone else too.

I'm using them for integration testing, and I only have kobebryant right now

Anyone working on a equivalent of Yo for the fediverse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

@smallsco Yeah, there is a memory leak somewhere... I'm hunting for it!

In the same vein, I'm thinking of giving priority to the accounts above, so that they are always posting to the fediverse in a timely fashion, at the expense of smaller account.

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.