One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.
With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:
@awilbert Brilliant! The server looks overloaded (red bar at 277% in attached image)… is this a POC to get others to run these bridges or is this server going to be a ‘public service’ instance?
@christopher I'm not sure about the load status bar, @vincent is the owner of the project.
@awilbert @christopher Yes, it is designed as a big instance. That bar comes from the original @BirdsiteLIVE . I'll switch it during my holiday break to the time of the last fetched tweet + the time it takes to iterate on all twitter accounts that are followed.
@vincent
Just curious, should I expect twitter posts to start making their way into my feed by now? I followed some accounts on your server yesterday. Some have posted today, and nothing is showing up yet.
Merry Christmas.