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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 26, 2023

New cool feature on bird.makeup this morning: pinned tweets!

They show as native pinned toots and they are not affected by the 100 top tweets limitation.

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 25, 2023

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To fix the crawling, I'm going to need to start using Twitter accounts to fetch new posts. This is getting complicated for the time I can put on this as a side project, so I'm going to rely on Nitter implementing this, then I'm going to use that. You can track progress here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983 There is another thing I can fix natively in bird.makeup though. I noticed pinned tweets are there in user lookups. I can forward this, and the top 100 limitation doesn't apply to that. 2/2

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 25, 2023

I'm getting a lot of question about what's currently working with bird.makeup, so here it is:

The system is mostly back online, but there are some major limitation when crawling new posts.

- To be forwarded, a post has to be in the top 100 of an account as measured by likes
- There are no retweets being forwarded right now

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 24, 2023

One really useful thing Nitter could do is to log the id of new tweets (and their author) as it encounters them during normal operation. Bird.makeup could simply hook into that byproduct and it can already figure out the rest on its own.

I’ll sleep on it and if I still like it I’ll propose it to the nitter dev

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 23, 2023

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And no retweets, but I did notice I can get pinned tweets though

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 23, 2023

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And we are back*, baby!

with the limitation on popular tweets for now

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 22, 2023

Currently setting up a mastodon instance and it looks like all requests have a 20 second delay added. It's driving me crazy!

Anyone knows what's up? My google-fu is giving me nothing

#MastoAdmin

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 21, 2023

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So they are all green right now, and the fetching tweets part works from my computer and CI, but not from any of the servers... The approach of fetching tweets from the embeds doesn't seem to work.... FML, and back to the drawing board!

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 18, 2023

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I will continue with something homegrown for users and individual tweets, but I'm thinking if I should add a dependency on nitter to fetch timelines 🤔 The lead dev has timelines working again already: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1684070343 While having everything built-in is neat, strategies to crawl are getting more complicated and it's starting to take a lot of time to re-implement things in C#

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Aug 18, 2023

More checkmarks are green today!

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Dec 24, 2022

Replying to @RaymondBarbour@mastodon.world

@RaymondBarbour@mastodon.world @awilbert@mastodon.social It is getting busier that's for sure! Right now it takes a few hours to cycle through accounts, but I have lots of ideas to improve this.

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Dec 24, 2022

Replying to @awilbert@mastodon.social

@awilbert@mastodon.social @christopher@mastodon.schulte.org Yes, it is designed as a big instance. That bar comes from the original @BirdsiteLIVE@fosstodon.org . 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.

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Vincent Cloutier @vincent@social.librem.one · Dec 24, 2022

Replying to @awilbert@mastodon.social

@awilbert@mastodon.social @BikingViking@mastodon.social @wspd7pio@bird.makeup Thank you for doing user support for me! That is right, the service iterates on all twitter accounts that are followed, then forwards that to fediverse users. That whole process takes (for now) a few hours.

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