mccLots of people looking at the Twitter free API shutdown and going "well I guess you won't be able to [X] anymore!!". But we're overlooking another, much worse possibility, which is that many of those things will keep happening, but now Twitter will be getting paid for them.
I still have my Playstation and Switch logins linked to Twitter accounts because even if I don't use Twitter the easiest way to get screenshots off those systems is to post them to a tweet on a burner account then download the image elsewhere. So when the free API goes down in a week, will that feature just stop working? Or will Sony/Nintendo cut a deal, and I'll just be earning Elon Musk five cents every time I save a screenshot? Horror
Hayley Question-Mark@mcc I did this too! But then I found out the PlayStation app on Android (at least) can get them wirelessly automatically.
Rho@mcc @barrowofdirt ios too, but only *after* you turn that on đ¤Ź
Jesse Miksicholy shit âšď¸
Luckily I havenât used my PS4 screenshot burner account for like 5 years. But still.
Gordon Little
mr_daemon@mcc I hadn't thought about this, but it's absolutely a concern. I do the same with the switch because the only other means are high friction, like copying to sdcard and taking it out, which I'm not about to do just to share a funny thing I just saw in Splatoon or whatever.
None of the scenarios are particularly pleasant...
mym@mcc i have found my best option is simply taking pictures of the television with my phone :p
Oblomov@mcc time to find an alternative âŚ
Mg Avaris Clari@mcc On the upside switch does have a copy via USB option now, but it's just really buried. It's hiding under Data Management -> Manage Screenshots and Videos
lori@mcc God getting screenshots off of the Switch has always been an unnecessary nightmare, I really like that Xbox will just let me automatically sync them into the Xbox app on my phone. The Switch, you either tweet them, fuck around with SD cards, or do the nightmarish "Switch sets up an access point you connect to" method.
lizard appreciator
gkrnours@mcc I send PS4 screenshot to one of the accounts that send me spam a long time ago then download them from the app on my phone.
So maybe someone who got hacked a long time ago then recovered their account randomly get screenshot of ffxiv
So maybe someone who got hacked a long time ago then recovered their account randomly get screenshot of ffxiv
Chris@mcc I doubt that Sony and Nintendo don't already use the enterprise-level API that already exists vs the free API for there sharing feature considering how much the serves hits the spi
@Uppercaseccc So I'm already funding Twitter! Even worse!
abadidea@mcc honestly itâs weird that this has always been the most practical method to extract screenshots. surely they can come up with a method other than âpower down the fun device mid-game to extract its very small fiddly memory physically to stick it in a computerâ or âauthenticate to a third party website the player may or may not use that has no obligation to humor youâ
@0xabad1dea The playstation app for mobile has a way of getting screenshots off but only if they were made in the last 14 days. Why? The playstation is on my wifi network, it's in the next room. Also as far as I know this doesn't help on a PC.
Pokemod97@0xabad1dea @mcc The 3ds had a SMB exploit iirc. Pretty sure smea submitted it to their bug bounty
iamevn@0xabad1dea @mcc if you can run homebrew, there's NXGallery which serves a gallery page from the switch
I wonder how easy it would be to write a module that'd run in the background and automatically upload screenshots to like an ftp server or smb share or whatever
Phoenix Birdperson@mcc on my PS5 i have an option to auto upload screenshots to the PS app where i can save them in my phones camera roll?
@mcc that's what I've mentioned too. OTOH the pricing they've put up for non-enterprise is ridiculous, which means a lot of small-scale developers and amateur bots won't be able to afford it.
Rosco@mcc or everyone goes back to scraping the website, which will totally help with their bandwith costs.
James Harris@mcc or they will use the twitter public client keys which are easy to extract from their apps.
@dancingmonkeys I don't think Sony Corporation is going to do that
@mcc I keep forgetting major companies integrated with twitter via oauth.
@dancingmonkeys Not clear to me whether the Twitter announcement means cutting off OAuth, but I notice OAuth apps are listed in Twitter "authorized apps".
@mcc I assumed you would have to tell Twitter about your app in order to have a âlog in with twitter button.
Nathan Wrigley 
@mcc It's time to move on!
RG
gio@mcc I expect every large company like Nintendo will pay to keep things working, and the smaller 90% wonât.