Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

@tonymasiello @jorijn@toot.community @bradr3d please respect admins’ decisions about this. They are also trusted by their communities to curate the fediverse. If you are not happy about how your server handle things, you can always move servers ✌️

@baralheia I’m not sure it is possible on this end. Anyone can spin up an alternative instance of bird.makeup that doesn’t honour that since it’s open source. Stuff like that should be implemented on Twitter’s side

Working on a feature to help people find the people they want on the fediverse if they know their Twitter handle too

@Fangh which account? That might help me debug

@Fangh I *think* that might happen if a tweet on the timeline gets deleted. I’ll look into that

@smallsco it’s something I want to add yes. I haven’t found yet good docs on the specs of that though. Hope I won’t have to reverse engineer that from mastodon/calckey

@smallsco an instance checker is a good idea! Won’t be 100% accurate for blocks though, since I don’t see if the instance is blocked, only that it has 0 followers from there.

Detecting if it’s not blocked will work great though

My little brother just produced a new song and it’s quite a banger!

(It’s in french though)

https://open.spotify.com/track/6mYMvVg5HVlfghntv9p1sI?si=O2DMebn0RNCpfyXP4Ca6Jw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1Na2YYpvbsnTG9EKjoVzOd

@radu this feature is more important to me than being easy to install. Also you are welcome to host a mirror on GitHub if you want

@fishcharlie @Mastodon Yes to work on mastodon too! That’s what I’ll be mainly using myself

It’s unfortunately not a given that ActivityPub makes everything work out of the box though, there are subtle things that create incompatibilities in practice.

@makkhorn Nope! That only helps the fediverse

On a more technical note: shoutout to https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader that will give me all the data I will need to make this work.

Also currently federation bird.makeup <> Pixelfed is imperfect. Posts and accounts can be found but followed posts don't show up in the timeline. I believe there might something with the activity ( https://bird.makeup/users/dog_rates/statuses/1650533062655242252/activity ) If a pixelfed expert could chime in here it will be very helpful to this project!

So I'm officially starting work to port bird.makeup to other social networks, starting with Instagram. There is some code already written, and the domain is already bought: kilogram.makeup

It will be very bare bone at first, and there will be a list of supported accounts, but as I make it scale those limits will be removed. I also plan to add features that will specifically help #pixelfed, like federating stories.