For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.
But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.
So basically I'm wondering what potential there could be for other networks to develop on their own and then start to federate. Were Bluesky and Threads unique occurrences, or could that happen again?
Thinking about this also in terms of the persistent whiteness of all of these post Twitters. Wonder if any of them has the capacity to fix that, or it's going to take something new, and how that could work.
I'd like to find a way to automate it so that people on a social media team can fave tweets and those automatically get compiled into a google sheet. I see github has some Selenium X scrapers that could be useful, but none of them seem to have an option to load someone's faves. I guess I could try to figure them out and retrofit this myself.
@nyquildotorg Whoa, it does! I was taking for granted anything like that was long gone. (Saw a blog post from Zapier that they were discontinuing X support)
@nyquildotorg Damn this is great because it kinda sorta redeems my choice to get IFTTT Pro when they started charging, for the promise of an eternally grandfathered low rate, even though I wasn’t using it and haven’t used it since… until now!
@jonny I have never used any of this stuff before, and apparently IFTTT can do it, but I might try this just to learn. (Part of me kinda just wants to learn how to scrape X out of spite.)
Everyone we’re aiming for with this already has an X account, so you don’t have to do anything but grab the tweet data from a simulated web browser. Seems like this would be hard for Musk to block, and it would be a nice side benefit to make him spend resources to try.
I feel like every time I see something about "such and such celebrity is a zionist, let's cancel them" it links back to some comment of sympathy and support for Israelis they made on, like, October 10, but elides the timestamp.
Similarly, I think some immediate statements from SJP and DSA chapters and whatnot, that they're still paying for, were made before the scale of attacks on civilians was apparent.
If we want to condemn, we have more than enough material from recent months, we don't have to go back to the peak of Fog of War.