Ben RamseyApr 27, 2022

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/

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 ?
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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 Ramsey
@dgoosens The purpose isn’t for sync. It’s for interop.
Apr 27, 2022 at 2:49pmWeb
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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