[sneak]

Twitter wants to capitalize on the fact that tweets are massively public, and they also want to capitalize on the fact that they are not.

Researchers are passing around lists of tweet IDs ("dehydrated", they call them) that can be "rehydrated" (that is, turned back into full tweets) if you have the right permission from twitter to do so.

The whole setup is really shameful.

It would be de-facto illegal to build a "Google for Twitter" today. I settled on doing it for ActivityPub/Mastodon because it's less likely I'll get sued into oblivion for creating a search engine that way.

[snisarenko]

Hi sneak,

I am working on some fediverse aggregator projects. Let me know if you want to talk.

https://mastodonia.club

https://pixelfed.club

[sneak]

You have no standard contact methods available on any of your sites that do not require registration. Consider publishing your email address; I am happy to chat. My email is in my profile and on my website.

[snisarenko]

Sent you an email