Post ASHucqdsoNgHzL3hdA by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
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(DIR) Post #ASH5JuNtZxPMQinAzQ by blaine@mastodon.social
2023-02-02T16:07:35Z
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Not going to lie, Twitter killing off free API access hits me in the feels. I remember with great affection the flood of creativity that happened after we opened up the API, and it's heartbreaking to see that unceremoniously strangled.I'm relieved that we've got better alternatives, though. While this is perhaps the final straw for many bots on Twitter, it's been a long time coming and the API has long been hobbled compared to the early days. Open protocols or bust. ✊
(DIR) Post #ASH5JuzTKFSwJGNBYm by blaine@mastodon.social
2023-02-02T16:09:43Z
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Meanwhile, has anyone built a Twitter API compatibility shim for Mastodon? 🤔
(DIR) Post #ASH5JvLS0X2xPQejom by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-02T16:12:01Z
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@blaine I’m wondering most about Twitter logins. But since that does the login on the Twitter site, they wouldn’t be turning THAT off?
(DIR) Post #ASH5Jvm2PgJWjt5yG8 by blaine@mastodon.social
2023-02-02T16:23:26Z
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@bmann I assume they're not going to be charging for *logins*. That'd be really dumb and I would laugh at their incompetence. 😂 Restricting access to eg the post API (or even any API access, eg for reader apps) makes marginally more sense.My thought here is more: switch the "twitter.com" const to "birdbrainsformastodons.com" and all the old bots (and maybe even client apps) just work again?
(DIR) Post #ASH5JwFSeHqkD8rT7Y by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-02T16:29:12Z
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@blaine @bmann I'm honestly not confident there's anyone left there who would even think to ask the question "what about sites that use login with a Twitter?" - at least not anyone who's in a position where the people making the decisions would listen to them
(DIR) Post #ASH5a8WWmG3ouoZH72 by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-02T16:31:07Z
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@blaine our old Twitter clone Bugle still has the code Ben Firshman wrote to simulate the Twitter API circa about 2010: https://github.com/devfort/bugle/tree/master/bugle_project/twitter_api
(DIR) Post #ASH6Th9bixgYFLL7Am by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-02T16:40:01Z
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@blaine @bmann might be a Face/Off situation https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109796126211727051
(DIR) Post #ASH8HWL0JRGj8Mzbyi by jonoabroad@mastodon.nz
2023-02-02T17:00:20Z
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@simon @blaine @bmann oh man OpenID seemed like such a good idea and then "login in with x" now i just dread stumbling across something that uses flickr or similar to authenticate
(DIR) Post #ASHucqdsoNgHzL3hdA by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
2023-02-03T02:01:58Z
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@jonoabroad @simon @blaine @bmann I think this is why Google, Microsoft and Apple started pushing Passkeys.
(DIR) Post #ASHucrOg0P6yKSx4ZE by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-03T02:03:52Z
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@lucid00 @jonoabroad @blaine @bmann I see Passkeys as mainly being about the fact that passwords are just a TERRIBLE form of authentication for the vast majority of peopleThey either forget them or they use the same password for every account. Password managers are a useful solution for a tiny fraction of the overall user-base
(DIR) Post #ASHv1g53DWrMTGbd8y by bmann@social.coop
2023-02-03T02:08:32Z
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@simon @lucid00 @jonoabroad @blaine let me rephrase before Blaine twitches more: password managers are a necessary blight for super users. Passkeys as a mass market passwordless solution that increases security by default is what we’re betting on at @fission
(DIR) Post #ASKHWAgwYZefPBCB1c by anemone@misskey.anemoneya.me
2023-02-04T05:32:05.599Z
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@blaine@mastodon.social its also the final straw for being able to prune my tweets