cloutier--bird.makeup/README.md
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# bird.makeup
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## About
Bird.makeup is a way to follow Twitter users from any ActivityPub service. The aim is to make tweets appear as native a possible to the fediverse, while being as scalable as possible. The project started from BirdsiteLive, but has now been improved significantly.
Compared to BirdsiteLive, bird.makeup is:
More scalable:
- Twitter API calls are not rate-limited
- It is possible to split the Twitter crawling to multiple servers
- There are now integration tests for the non-official api
- The core pipeline has been tweaked to remove bottlenecks. As of writing this, bird.makeup supports without problems more than 20k users.
- Twitter users with no followers on the fediverse will stop being fetched
More native to the fediverse:
- Retweets are propagated as boosts
- Activities are now "unlisted" which means that they won't polute the public timeline, but they can still be boosted
- WIP support for QT
More modern:
- Moved from .net core 3.1 to .net 6 which is still supported
- Moved from postgres 9 to 15
- Moved from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json
## Official instance
You can find the official instance here: [bird.makeup](https://bird.makeup). If you are an instance admin that prefers to not have tweets federated to you, please block the entire instance.
Please consider if you really need another instance before spinning up a new one, as having multiple domain makes it harder for moderators to block twitter content.
## License
Original code started from [BirdsiteLive](https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive).
This project is licensed under the AGPLv3 License - see [LICENSE](https://git.sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/tree/master/item/LICENSE) for details.
## Contact
You can contact me via ActivityPub <a rel="me" href="https://social.librem.one/@vincent">here</a>.