Another way you can really help bird.makeup is finding any open source projects that integrates with any parts of Twitter that still work and send those to me. I’ll reverse engineer them and get new ways to crawl Twitter
Re: alternate ways of getting timelines
This is a critical call to make bird.makeup work. That’s how I get new tweets to forward to fediverse instances.
If I don’t find another public api call that’s still open to do that, I’ll have to pull out the big guns and use actual Twitter accounts to do the indexing.
I’ll probably do something where people can gift their old accounts to the project via the web UI.
Tbh I was expecting to have to do something like that much sooner
Re: converting handle
I’m thinking either I could index them as new users get retweeted (from another api call). Overtime it will become somewhat reliable, but not for niche accounts.
Or I can use actual Twitter accounts to crawl those in an async way after a follow
More specifically I have:
- A new way to read specific tweet
- A new way to pull a profile if they have been followed before
Still missing:
- A way to convert handles to numeric ID
- An alternative way to pull a user timeline
For anybody wondering what the Mastodon security issue is - CVE-2023-36460, you can send a toot which makes a webshell on instances that process it. #CVE202336460
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
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