Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

@tzeejay Not sure what you are referring to, but mastodon.social will ban all instances of twitter replicators. You will have to move server if you want to use them

@mactenchi It's enabled! You have to chose "make a custom pledge" and it seems to only be on mobile. Thank you !

So since users of bird.makeup keep increasing like crazy, I've setup a Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/birddotmakeup

Please help me grow a free and open source service in a sustainable way. Thank you! 😄

@jesscourtney You have to check the server policy, but here are the most popular servers that fetch from bird.makeup if you have a vibe-match with one of those:

@jesscourtney Yeah mastodon.social blocks all twitter replicators by policy, if you want to use any of those you will have to move servers

Ok another weird request to help me debug bird.makeup: can you reply to this post with Gifs? (hopefully cute or funny)

I want to see how various servers encode gifs. Bonus point if you can do from something else than mastodon too.

@luis@ursal.zone Postgres! Although a rather old version than I'm gonna upgrade soon

I have a truckload of interesting queries I run on the bird.makeup database. I want to make the result of those available on the website so that the community can enjoy them too.

I've started adding some on https://bird.makeup/About . So for now the number of fediverse users and of followed twitter users. I want to add the list of most followed accounts and the most followed per server too!

@gpollara Nothing to do on your end, things update automatically

@PhilGastwirth Not for now but eventually I will setup a Patreon! Thanks 😄

@gpollara @ivory Because I'm not using the official twitter API, but the one they use internally for the web page. They can't kick me out without breaking their own site!

Just pushed 2 tweaks to bird.makeup: There is now initial support for QT. In this first iteration, a link is added to the quoted thread. I'll add something more sophisticated later on. Second tweak is to make gifs work correctly

So it looks like Twitter has banned all third-party clients this morning, but bird.makeup is unaffected.

So this mean that for example Tweetbot users could switch to @ivory + bird.makeup to get back the lost functionality. A loss to the Twitter network, but a gain for the fediverse.

If I could help indirectly the mastodon app ecosystem to grow like that, it would make me quite happy!