Vincent Cloutier  

So now that the twitter official API ban is here, bird.makeup/ is now the only working twitter crossposter/bridge left working.

Kinda lonely !

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Alishara  

@vincent doesn’t work with mastodon.social

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Vincent Cloutier  

@Alishara Yeah mastodon.social has banned bird.makeup, you'll have to move servers if you want to use it...

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Dom DeLorenzo  

@vincent @Alishara Why do instances like .social ban cross-posting services like these? Does the extra traffic put a burden on the mastodon instance? Or is it a philosophical objection to mirroring other platforms?

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Vincent Cloutier

@dominick @Alishara Exactly to both! I think it’s reasonable, just wish that decision was better displayed

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Dom DeLorenzo  

@vincent @Alishara I'm sympathetic. On the one hand, I'd like to be able to subscribe to content from the birdsite (like an RSS feed), so that I'm less tempted spend time outside the Fediverse. On the other hand, I understand that means that my local instance has to host whatever I'm subscribing to, which puts extra burden on it, and I don't want to abuse it. Also, the original authors aren't giving consent for their content to be mirrored, and I can see how that is thorny.

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Dom DeLorenzo  

@vincent @Alishara That said, I just tried your service out with a couple accounts, and it works really well. Well done!

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Alishara  

@dominick @vincent I have some new instances on my list. Just checking which one ist the best for me.

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