Notices by Luca Hammer (luca@social.luca.run), page 2

@yvg Please use https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me until I am able to fix it. #fedifinder

I heard that the tools to delete all your Tweets don't work anymore. This script allows you to delete them anyways: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/1aa16b4d3c1fb04035839da5ef699d65

- #Xcorp may view it as a violation of their terms (automation) and ban your account. Use at your own risk.
- At least in the EU you have a right to delete your own data which overrules any company terms.
- This only removes them from your profile, Tweets may still exist in backups and other places.

I wasn't able to get the script to run unsupervised. After some time the timeline stays empty and you have to manually reload the page and run the script again. Currently, I am testing it with a 15 year old account with 19 k Tweets. I had to reload every 500 Tweets on average. After adjusting the script to not hit the rate-limit (50 requests per minute), it should run with less interruptions. But the Xcorp infrastructure is unreliable. #twitter

2023-09-19 Initial release
2023-09-19 Replies get deleted as well. Script switches between Tweets and Replies until neither returns new results.

Short video for people who haven't used the browser developer tools yet.

Because I was only able to delete a few thousand Tweets from my profile, I had to write a new script to delete old Tweets. This one works with the tweets.js file from the Twitter Data Export to delete Tweets that aren't visible on the profile or search.

1. Log into Twitter with Firefox
2. Have at least one visible post on your profile
3. Paste code to browser console (F12)
4. A new area appears at the top of the page
5. Choose your tweets.js file
6. Wait for Tweets to vanish (takes long)

Script: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/a4d1e957ec9e061e3cccafcbed599e16 #XCorp #twitter

@feditips As far as I remember, it was never broken for more than a few days.

"Your X/Twitter contacts are on these instances." https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ #fedifinder #update #xTwitter #TwitterX #Twitter #branding

@thomasfuchs Legal stuff already happened earlier this year. Twitter Inc. was merged into X Corp.. https://social.luca.run/@luca/110525953936170888

(Doesn't make it less stupid.)

@pfefferle 1518 follow @luca@lucahammer.com

@thomasfuchs Communication studies call it the news values theory. It's mostly what people are more drawn to (journalists are people, editors are people, audience consists of people).

Unexpectedness: Sub incident occurred suddenly and for the first time.
Personalization: Specific people.
Eliteness: Rich people.
Superlativeness: So deep, so stupid.
Proximity: Cultural.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values

That it is expected that it gets more coverage, should not stop us from using it to draw attention to other important issues.

@pfefferle I haven't looked into kbin yet, but would it be possible to display the upvotes on WordPress? Are they similar or even the same as favorites elsewhere?

I tried to find an update regarding the planned #ActivityPub support by #Tumblr, but wasn't successful. Is there a release date or something?

@pfefferle `@posts@example.org` because WordPress calls them so as well.

@pfefferle And I would want that stream to be only boosts of the individual authors posts.

If I didn't know from past experiences that this is incompetence, I would assume X Corp is mocking me. They sent me an email to sign up for Twitter API basic access and the URLs point to my own computer: localhost:3000/en/portal/products/basic

When visiting the correct URL, there is still no signup button.