Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

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.

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!

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!

Small tweak on bird.makeup to better display what to expect performance-wise

Thinking about making another fediverse replicator like bird.makeup but for Instagram. It could be nice especially with @pixelfed clients that support stories.

Scrapping Instagram is waaaaay harder than Twitter though.

Happy to report that as we are about to hit 3.1k users on bird.makeup, the latest round of optimizations I did brought down the time it takes to iterate through all twitter users from ~1.5 hours to ~35 minutes.

Onwards!

I wonder how much more scalable the fediverse could be if we were sending around protobuf instead of JSON