Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

I have also been prototyping bird.makeup for Instagram, which will be called kilogram.makeup.

Should I focus my energy on that instead?

Having said that, with the new restrictions, I can make bird.makeup work again but with severe limitations: only posts with lots of likes will be forwarded.

Is that worth doing?

@jerome I designed bird.makeup from the beginning to rely on endpoints that would break major use-cases of their product like yours if they ever remove them.

Turns out Elon is perfectly willing to break them, which completely blows my mind

Looks like Twitter has made it so that when you look up a profile without being logged in, you see posts ranked by likes instead of by time. This will be a problem…

@troy Ah, that's an interesting approach!

@adam @jorijn@toot.community That or interactions from fediverse users with replicated accounts

@malamoffo I'm on a server without DMs

Guys I didn’t change anything yet and bird.makeup started working again 🤯

@troy what software do you use? Do you have a git somewhere?

@troy I have some workarounds already, interested in collaborating?

@dodoandthebrawn @aidasb @sportsbots Interesting! I don't think their stuff is open source though

@dodoandthebrawn @aidasb What is that? I could maybe reuse their approach

@eg the cat in question

Looks like Twitter has removed the endpoint bird.makeup was using to fetch profiles...

I'll do another reverse engineering round to figure out another way