Ben Ramsey

This is amazing!

“Twitter locked down its source code to prevent unauthorized changes, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The reports say that this change was made to prevent employees from ‘going rogue’ and sabotaging the platform after Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company. Currently, a vice president must approve any changes.”

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/twitter-lock-source-code-elon-musk/

Apr 27, 2022 at 3:33amWeb
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
It would have been awesome for someone to sneak a full ActivityPub implementation into Twitter. 😂
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022

Actually, if Musk is so adamant about being a “free speech absolutist,” it would totally make sense for Twitter to implement ActivityPub, but…

Yeah. That’s not gonna happen.

Show threadDmitri Goosens Apr 27, 2022
@ramsey maybe possible with https://matrix.org ?
Writing and publishing content

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication

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Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@dgoosens How so? Matrix is not an ActivityPub implementation.
Show threadDmitri Goosens Apr 27, 2022
@ramsey nope, don't think so
but if the purpose is to sync twitter with another service, it might be possible
(spoiler: I have not tested this)
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@dgoosens The purpose isn’t for sync. It’s for interop.
Show threadDmitri Goosens Apr 27, 2022
@ramsey
yes... so if you have twitter on one side and mastodon on the other side, wouldn't it be possible to put a matrix.org in the middle that deals with the interop ?
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@dgoosens I still don’t understand how Matrix helps with this. It seems like the wrong tool for the job.
Show threadDmitri Goosens Apr 27, 2022

@ramsey I'm guessing I'm not getting what you try to achieve ?
I figured you wanted to sync your twitter and mastodon account

so suggested you'd do something like this: https://github.com/qbit/mycete
(probably does not cover all use cases)

GitHub - qbit/mycete: A matrix.org micro-blogging (twitter,mastodon) connector.

A matrix.org micro-blogging (twitter,mastodon) connector. - GitHub - qbit/mycete: A matrix.org micro-blogging (twitter,mastodon) connector.

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Show threadDerick RethansApr 27, 2022
@ramsey What I would like to see is a "translate this toot" link, as I like following content in multiple languages. As a matter of fact, I'll likely will *write* in multiple languages as well.
Languages rock.
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@derickr that wouldn’t be hard for a client to implement, but use of the various translate APIs can get expensive, from what I understand
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@derickr unless each user has their own API key 🙂
Show threadDerick RethansApr 27, 2022
@ramsey I bet it can all be done in-browser.
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@derickr Speaking of languages, I finally picked up Duolingo again, and I’m continuing my Dutch lessons.
Show threadBeau SimensenApr 27, 2022
@ramsey: How did you choose Dutch? :)
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@beausimensen It’s so close to English, I figured it’d be easy. 😁
Show threadDerick RethansApr 27, 2022
@ramsey @beausimensen Hah. Natuurlijk. Omdat oud-engels net oud-nederlands is, is de taal nu ook nog steeds hetzelfde :-þ
Show threadqraziApr 27, 2022
@derickr @ramsey @beausimensen reminds me of shared origins between English and Frisian ':) https://youtu.be/OeC1yAaWG34
Mongrel Nation - Brown cow

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Show threadAlerta! Alerta!Apr 27, 2022
@ramsey @beausimensen For me that seems to be one of the reasons why it's so hard. It's so similar. Unless when it's not. And having to remember when it is and when it's not is much harder for me than learning something completly different...
Show threadMx Autumn Apr 27, 2022

@ramsey While it makes sense for them to do that, we have to consider that it's also an admission that something has gone so wrong as to result in them no longer trusting their work force.

I'm not even sure what the endgame of that is.