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snarfed.org Original

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By Ryan Barrett
| snarfed.org
Hey decentralized social people, can I ask a favor? Here’s a rough draft of how I’m thinking about translating/bridging across multiple protocols and identities (via federation, ie not syndication/cross posting). Could you take a look when you get a chance and see which parts look reasonable and which are totally off base? Feel free to comment here or on the PR, whichever’s easier.
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The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained Original

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By Ryan Barrett
| snarfed.org
Posted on the Twitter Developers forum and IndieNews. Hi all! I don’t have much new to say about the ongoing chaos at Twitter or the impending death of the free API tier. I’d just like to draw your attention to this page that shows Twitter employees’ posts here on this forum, in chronological order, descending. Before December, a large number of employees posted here regularly on a wide range of topics.
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We’re drowning

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By Ryan Barrett
| snarfed.org
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, we’re drowning. We slap together rickety rowboats and toss them out on PyPI Ocean and npm Sea, then act surprised when the changes flood in. We ignore the flood as long as we can, then patch the holes with duct tape and bilge pumps as if they can hold back the tide. They cannot.
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