Hello everyone! This is the new official account of the Debirdify app. It helps you finds out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.
Try it: https://pruvisto.org/debirdify
We recommend to keep checking it every few days to see if there are new people.
@n3Rdia @debirdify @digitalcourage No, it works in a very different way and is completely unrelated. Twitodon only knows associations of Twitter accounts and Mastodon accounts of people who used Twitodon before, which is, sadly almost no one.
Debirdify instead searches through the profiles of the people you follow for things that look like Mastodon IDs, which, in my opinion, works much better.
A very similar tool is also Fedifinder.
Thank you! Any idea of the safety of any of these apps .. feeling traumatized by the last 7 years and afraid to log into anything, hahaha!
@SameGirlie When you authenticate you do so on the Twitter website itself (you can check that by looking in the address bar, it says ‘api.twitter.com’). What happens then is that Twitter creates a kind of one-time password that gets handed to the app, e.g. Debirdify or Fedifinder. Twitter tells you what this one-time password is good for, e.g. Debirdify/Fedifinder request read-only access.
This means that they can use that password to read your tweets, timeline, lists, followers, etc. They cannot read your DMs and they cannot change anything, write tweets in your name, etc. But in principle they *could* look at your private lists, the people you blocked, etc. and save that information somewhere, email it to someone, etc. But that's the worst they could potentially do.
Also note that you can revoke the access immediately after using the app in your Twitter settings.
@SameGirlie Both Debirdify and Fedifinder are open-source software, which means that anyone could potentially look at what they do exactly. Debirdify is very privacy-friendly: it does not save your requests or the results on its server. Even the one-time password is only saved as a cookie on your computer.
Side note: Even though it is open software, there is technically no guarantee that the version that runs on the server actually is the same "harmless" code as the one that is made public. So if you care about the privacy of your private lists, block lists, etc. you do have to trust us at least a little bit.
@SameGirlie I am happy to answer any further questions on privacy/security details.
But the short answer is: We promise to not collect any personal data, and even if you do not trust us the damage we could potentially do is very much limited by the fact that we only ask for read-only Twitter permissions.
Thanks, appreciate the info
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Debirdify is coming along really beautifully. Thanks for all the hard work on it!
@avsm It does follow redirects. But:
manuel@daedalus ~> curl -I "https://recoil.org/.well-known/webfinger?acct:[email protected]"
HTTP/2 404
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000
server: Caddy
date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:45:10 GMT
@avsm That's helpful, thanks. I will implement that soon.
I was trying to find documentation on all of this but couldn't find any, so I just looked at some examples and tried to figure it out by myself.
This might also affect #Fedifinder, so, tagging @Luca
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you!
@debirdify hey I tend to use lists on twitter rather than following.
Is there anyway to use your site to get the ids of people I have on lists but don't follow?
Thank you. I found this very useful
@jonenge Yeah the Apache Webserver froze again. No idea what causes this. Pretty sure it's not load. This just happens every 1–2 weeks.
Fixed now (by restarting the webserver).
@walid Odd. Does this happen every time? Have you tried other browsers? Or private mode? (Switching off browser extensions etc)
There have been a number of cases where browser extensions, especially ad blockers, interfered with the Twitter authentication.
@walid I just tried it and it works for me. So I suspect the problem you experienced is either a temporary Twitter problem or some problem on your end (e.g. browser extensions).
I do not expect Twitter to be petty enough to go after small fry like #Debirdify. It's a small site of little consequence and I very much doubt we're on anyone's radar.
This is tremendous. Thanks!!
@KateCushing If it's the rate limit error you got, that normally only happens if you repeatedly search your followers (and if you also have a lot of them).
The limit resets after at most 15 minutes.
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