#dotmakeup

#About

dotmakeup is a way to follow users of closed social networks (such as Twitter, Instagram and more) from any ActivityPub service. The aim is to make their posts appear as native a possible to the fediverse, while being as scalable as possible.

#Supported networks

Modes are upcoming for Reddit, TikTok and HN.

#Official instances

• bird.makeup for dotmakeup in Twitter mode
• kilogram.makeup for dotmakeup in Instagram mode

If you are an instance admin that prefers to not have tweets and/or instagram posts federated to you, please block the entire instance.

Please consider if you really need another instance before spinning up a new one, as having multiple domain makes it harder for moderators to block twitter content.

#Compared to BirdsiteLive, bird.makeup is:

More scalable:

• Twitter API calls are not rate-limited
• It is possible to split the Twitter crawling to multiple servers
• There are now integration tests for the non-official api
• The core pipeline has been tweaked to remove bottlenecks. As of writing this, bird.makeup supports without problems more than 90k users.

More native to the fediverse:

• Retweets are propagated as boosts
• Activities are now "unlisted" which means that they won't polute the public timeline, but they can still be boosted
• WIP support for QT

#License

Original code started from BirdsiteLive, but has now been changed significantly. BirdsiteLive is not maintained anymore.

This project is licensed under the AGPLv3 License - see LICENSE for details.

#Contact

You can contact me via ActivityPub here.