nicdex 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Dec 24, 2022

#techhub defederation notice

All #birdsite instances. Birdsite is a ActivityPub compatible software that allow mastodonians to follow "twits" on Twitter. In short it re-post tweets on #mastodon.

Here's my reasoning for blocking:
1) it's confusing, we've receiced a couple of report saying these accounts are impersonating someone when in fact it's re-post from twitter original account
2) most of us left #twitter for good, not wanting to go back. Seeing tweets reposted here is defeating that.
3) most importantly these birdsite instances don't have either Twitter or the tweet's poster permission to re-post on Mastodon.

Let me know if you disagree I would be open to let one of them muted instead of blocked.

Show thread😱 Brian Morearty

@nicdex Thanks for letting us know. I don't personally follow any #birdsite instances because I haven’t left Twitter for good, so this decision doesn’t affect me.

Having said that, I don’t agree with reason #3. I doubt anyone has ever needed Twitter’s permission to re-post something on another site (although I suppose anything could happen with its new owner). And I’m even more certain you don’t need (legally or ethically) the tweet poster’s permission to re-post elsewhere since tweets are public.

Dec 24, 2022 at 4:14amWeb
Show thread😱 Brian MoreartyDec 24, 2022
@nicdex Here’s another reason to keep allowing bird bots that I hadn’t thought of. :) https://techhub.social/@awilbert@mastodon.social/109553409446305289
Adam Wilbert (@[email protected])

One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration. With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports: @[email protected] EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @[email protected]

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