twurl VS Mastodon

After registering a Twitter App, make sure to enable Read/Write permissions in the App settings. Create an .env file in the root of the project based on .env.example. We can use this data in our file with an object like this:

Hello guys! I have spent a few hours now, trying to get my tweepy to work. I have made an app on developer.twitter.com, trying to post somwthing on twitter. I feel like I have tried everything, and I have even consulted my friend ChatGPT for help, but I keep getting lost in the documentation and GPT is of no help in this case!

Please visit developer.twitter.com to sign up to our new Free, Basic or Enterprise access tiers.

In the meantime, you can learn more about the Twitter API v2 and find resources on developer.twitter.com. We appreciate your continued interest in developing on the Twitter API.

As a prerequisite, you need a Twitter Developer account. With a Twitter account, it's easy: navigate to https://developer.twitter.com and register a new app. Make sure that you create a Twitter app that has read and write permissions!

This kind of has us scrambling a bit, actually. Not because we'd have to pay per se, but rather we've been using their API for so long on our website (and def still on v1.1) that now when we check the developer site it just funnels to a "Sign up" and no longer shows us our existing/old apps, so we cannot find/figure out which account was linked to our production credentials (and that's really on us for not staying on top of which account that was).

To start the process to become a "Twitter developer" visit developer.twitter.com, sign-in and start the process... It may be an annoying process with manually reviews.

Twitter API

2 - Create a developer account that you will associate with your Twitter account. To do this, go to https://developer.twitter.com. You click on Sign up, then you will have to follow the instructions and choose the Bot option for the use you will make of the API. Once you have created your account, you will be assigned a Bearer Token. Keep it safe, as you will need it to make your requests later.

To start using Twitter API, you need to register for a developer account (including phone number verification). Once you register, you will be prompted to create the first application. You will immediately receive API Key and API Key Secret – but ignore them, since these are only for OAuth 1.0. Instead, go to your project's dashboard, there go to the App Settings of the only application you created. In application settings, find User authentication settings and click Set up.

Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)

Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?

> Social networking that's not for sale.

Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268

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Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.

Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884

The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.

If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.

The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.

HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.

Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.

Suggestions?

Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5

>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example

Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...

Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....