PachymanJun 13, 2023
Recently got this commission from @tacocatarts I love their work! #elephant #furry
Show thread🏳️‍🌈Tumble Dry🇨🇦Jun 13, 2023
@Pachyman !!!! So cuttte!! I love it!
Show threadPachymanJun 13, 2023
@TumbleDry Yeah, they really nailed his personality. I'd recommend commissioning them to anyone 👍
Show threadPreston B. BearJun 13, 2023

@Pachyman @TumbleDry

Perchance are they on Masto? 🐻 🤔

Show threadPachymanJun 14, 2023
@Preston They have an account but it says it's a 'Bot' account. They haven't posted anything on it. @tacocatarts
Show threadreggieJun 14, 2023
@Pachyman @Preston that instance appears to be a Twitter scraper which are often blocked due to excessive traffic and other community violations that can’t be mitigated (because it’s all automated)
Show threadPachymanJun 14, 2023
@artfulreggie @Preston Pardon my dumbassery, but is it an account they would have set up themselves? Like something to mirror what they post on Twitter?
Show threadreggieJun 14, 2023

@Pachyman no. This is something set up by a semi-autonomous fashion.

Either an auto scraper or someone submitted a list of interesting Twitter accounts for a server to automate scraping. But they more than likely have know knowledge this exists and it won’t really work for the reasons I mentioned in my prior post.

Show threadPachymanJun 14, 2023
@artfulreggie Thank you! I'll cancel my follow request.
Show threadreggie
@Pachyman if you see an instances host name mention Twitter, it’s probably one of these mirrors and isn’t going to work for a number of reasons. Abandoned instances set up before Twitter shut down their API.
Jun 14, 2023 at 4:32amWeb