Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

I get asked from time to time “why not GitHub for your projects?” and here’s a good answer from a fellow sourcehut user

https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/

@infosecdj @xabean wrote a thing this week about that and more: https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/faq-opt-out.md

English is a second language to me, feedback on the writing is always appreciated!

Many new people on the fediverse this week, and thus many discovering bird.makeup for the first time!

I wrote a thing this week in response to all the questions I got asked, about why (surprisingly) opt-outs would be counter-productive, and other stuff:

https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/faq-opt-out.md

@limedye @Carionto basically yes: https://social.librem.one/@vincent/110707196183171947

First thing I wanted to explore is porting the twitter algo to the fediverse: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

(And all experiments would be opt-in, so your experience can stay vanilla mastodon if that is what you wish)

Thinking of starting a mastodon instance for myself and for past and current patreon supporter, where I could develop more fediverse projects I want to create.

Is that something that you would be interested in?

(and of course bird.makeup would never get banned on it)

So I've been optimizing the number of calls I make to twitter this week ( https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/log ) and the error rate has been going down a lot.

It seems the user endpoint is the only one rated limited, so all the errors left are coming from that. You'll see that when looking at a profile or when trying to follow.

Still have many ideas on how I could optimize this further

Seems like the meme is happening for real!

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-barbie-oppenheimer-double-feature-is-really-happening-data-shows-1.1944290