• a [[bot]]
  • part of [[agora bridge]] component of the [[agora]].
    • [[pull]] [[agora bridge]]
    • in control of the [[system account]] in supported platforms.
  • interacts with existing networks, starting with Mastodon and Twitter.
    • see [[agora social media integration]].
    • [[mastodon]] https://botsin.space/@agora
      • see bots/mastodon in [[go/agora-bridge]].
    • [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/an_agora
      • see bots/twitter in [[go/agora-bridge]].
    • [[matrix]] [[agora matrix bot]]
      • see [[go/agora-matrix-bot]], [[mit license]] so separate repo while we figure that out (the [[agora]] is [[apache license]], [[flancia]] is [[creative commons]] plus an [[agora contract]].)
  • [[functionality]]
    • [[current]]
      • replies to @mentions if the tweet/toot contains [[wikilinks]] with links to anagora.org
      • follows back
      • starts threads with its replies on [[matrix]]
      • stores links to messages in the [[agora]]
    • [[planned]]
      • stores full messages in the [[agora]] for users that consent
        • optionally offers to them [[gitea]] hosting, else forwards updates to a repository of their choice
  • a [[project]]

    • DONE reply to @mentions

    • DONE store [[matrix]] messages from [[agora discuss]] and other rooms that opt in?

      --[2022-03-02 Wed 12:59:45] => 688:09:46

    • LATER reply to @mentions with resolved wikilinks for whole threads

    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1415398630731681793 pull

Be careful with Twitter, they said. You'll get addicted.

I said: don't worry, I have it under control. I recognize you can get addicted to social networks; I'm doing this purposefully. I want to investigate how to hack dopamine hacking, in a way: how to use the dynamics that social networks exploit for my own benefit, or (stretch goal) for the benefit of society.

I still got hooked. I do believe a lot of what's come out of it thus far is productive: I try to use Twitter as an open note taking tool, to "think socially" -- to motivate myself to get my writing out there, even if it's in bite sized chunks. But I'm also falling prey to the algorithm; one that, of course, I can't control. The algorithm's objectives are not my objectives; I can try to bend it, but I can't replace it, so all in all Twitter is sometimes competitive instead of complementary.

In any case, these are what I consider the relative highlights of my Twitter career so far. I've set up go links for each of these to make referencing them easier.

• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-ai-safety pull, my post popular tweet ever -- the result of playing with GPT-3 through AI Dungeon.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-bolo pull, where I comment bolo'bolo -- an anarchist classic by p.m.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-clojure pull, where I try to learn Clojure (and mostly fail).
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-gpt3 pull, more about GPT-3.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-antisocial pull, where I comment Antisocial by Marantz.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-finding-chaos pull, where I comment Finding Chaos by Heather Marsh.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-philosophy pull, a thread I thought could be useful as a starting point to learn more about philosophy.
• https://flancia.org/go/twitter-encyclopedias pull, a thread about online encyclopedias.

I've also set up a trivial redirect from https://flancia.org/t/x pull to a Twitter search for 'x' in my account. Enjoy (?). E.g. https://flancia.org/t/agora pull.

Twitter

• [[Twitter]] could be part of the [[Agora]].
  • The [[Agora]] can exist anywhere in the internet where users can generate content.
  • I have started using [[wikilinks everywhere]]; even if they won't work right now, we'll make them work later :)
    • For example with one of our planned [[browser extensions]].
    • Or just by setting up processes that "pull" all tweets with explicit wikilinks as backlinks to matching nodes.
    • See [[agora-twitter-integration]].
• Aside: I hope [[Mastodon]] can replace Twitter some day, as it's open and user controlled.
• See also:
  • [[tweet]] for, well, direct links to tweets.
  • Backlinks here for every person with a known Twitter account.

Twitter is a proprietary parasocial network. It is a good notion to avoid using it. The best thing about it is the big amount of good artwork posted there.

= Links

=> http://hugeping.tk/6KEZHIGAauAA9Auoq8mm Автор изучал свои цитаты в твиттере и обнаружил, что твиттер неудобен для такого, поэтому он воспользовался выгрузкой архива и уже оттуда прочитал свои цитаты. В статье представлены многие цитаты.

=> https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances Смотритель аптайма инстансов ниттера.

=> https://delete.tweets.tools/ Überprogramm для удаления твитов. В бесплатной версии ограничения есть, но можно купить лицензию на год.

=> https://github.com/webinista/tweetkiller Питоноскрипт-убийца твитов, требует аккаунт разработчика (or whatever it's called) ((у нас его нет)).

=> http://thoughtstorms.info/view/LeavingTwitter => https://balajis.com/how-to-gradually-exit-twitter/ How to Gradually Exit Twitter [[bookmark]]

=> https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-03-28_No_Twitter

I used the [[Twitter Archive Eraser]] to delete all my favourites and all my tweets on Twitter.

This tool is much faster than all the other solutions I've seen because it requires you to download your Twitter archive, first. That's always a good idea. Then it gets the tweet ids from the archive instead of requesting them from Twitter itself, and that's what makes it so fast.

Same idea but do it yourself? [[tweetkiller]] is a Python script that does the same thing: it goes through your archive to extract the IDs.

=> https://gilest.org/end-twitter.html | The beginning and the end of Twitter Some cute nostalgia thoughts about Twitter.

https://twitter.com

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface or its mobile-device application software ("app"), though the service could also be accessed via SMS before April 2020. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but was doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in November 2017. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts. — Wikipedia

Resources

• Twitter Developer Docs

Twitter

Twitter released internal research showing it “amplifies more tweets from rightwing politicians and news outlets than content from leftwing sources.” That’s something anyone paying attention has known for a while, but I guess it’s good to see the platform at least admit it

– Twitter knows it’s spreading right-wing lies

So yes, it’s good to have proof of something we’ve known for a while, but don’t give Twitter too much credit when it’s still amplifying right-wing content and its CEO is not only complicit, but pushing right-wing trash of his own

– Twitter knows it’s spreading right-wing lies

#twitter