Mike Masnick ✅Feb 3, 2023

By the way, with Musk already cutting off @Tibor's Movetodon, it's likely that Debirdify and Fedifinder are not long for this world. Even if Musk doesn't kill them immediately, they'll likely die when the API fees kick in next week.

So if you're still on Twitter, or know people there, you might want to encourage them to at least set up accounts here now, before it becomes more difficult.

Show threadChris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
@mmasnick @Tibor Hopefully a new set of tools will emerge for folks to use their Twitter data exports to seed their Mastodon accounts
Feb 3, 2023 at 5:55pmWeb
Show threadJames Edward Lewis IIFeb 4, 2023
@chrisgervais @mmasnick @Tibor I'm still reading this thread, so the point may have been made already, but Debirdify can already do this, via a textarea that accepts a list of Twitter usernames; what I don't know is whether it will run into problems scraping all of those profiles without the API, or whether it even does use the API once it has the list of usernames.