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 I’m testing our new cross posting service from nostr to x ne twitter. 

https://tweeter.nos.social 
 I would actually consider using this just to remind people there that #nostr exists. 
 Haha I’ve been messing around with something to do the reverse 
 What happens when it runs up against the character limit?

Does it include replies? 
 nice but stay alert - u dnot lose ur account though 
 Congrats on the #startsmall grant! 
 @nobody Thanks. It’s going to let us focus on building a bunch of open source tools and services for the nostr ecosystem. I’m grateful and excited.  
 So freaking cool. Perfect way to end the year and you deserve it. I’ve a mtg with a foundation on 11/6 in an aim to earn 1/10th of that 🙃 #CheersToTheGrind 🫂💜 
 Why still use X though? 🤷

nostr:nevent1qqsrxshn8pqrry5uk32u4z6k8qefk6l5sc3sstt8u50j9xphreppg0qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypmvwx4w8fy378v7a3ruhgt7y2wd5sgn5zamde4wzamdwep798905qcyqqqqqqgjcrx9e 
 👀👀⚡⚡🤌

nostr:nevent1qqsrxshn8pqrry5uk32u4z6k8qefk6l5sc3sstt8u50j9xphreppg0qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qwmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqxpqqqqqqzr32lun 
 Nice

nostr:nevent1qqsrxshn8pqrry5uk32u4z6k8qefk6l5sc3sstt8u50j9xphreppg0qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygrkcud2uwjfruweamz8ewshug5umfq38g9mkmn2u9mk6ajru2w2lgpsgqqqqqqs5tn5kt 
 Does this only work from nos.social? 
 I just tried it and some guy responded from the fediverse but nothing on Twitter  
 xitter dun wannan competitor brah 
 Meh, I could easily mirror all of this pure, unadulterated and unfiltered wit to the X-twit masses... But they wouldn't get it. 

https://i.imgur.com/hflCbdi.gif 
 what about to/from threads?

i'm there also ;) 
 We had a rate limit problem but we’ve pushed a fix so hopefully we’ll be able to play nice by x’s rules.  
 where can I see examples? Great idea! 
 I get this when I try to X authenticate

error calling login or register handler: transaction error: error calling the provided function: error getting or creating account: error creating the account: error saving the new account: error executing the insert query: database is locked 
 This is the proper flow. I remember a big turn off when I first started exploring Mastodon some years ago was the majority just seemed to be Twitter bots reposting from Twitter.

Make no mistake this is a hostile attack. Having the authentic conversation here only to leave the platforms a ghost town of unresponsive bots.

Keep up the good work.  
 Is there some distinct metadata trace that would make it trivial for Twitter to deboost visibility? 
 I deleted Twitter a while back, but this looks cool! 
 Woah this is amazing 
 Excelente ✨👌👏

nostr:nevent1qqsrxshn8pqrry5uk32u4z6k8qefk6l5sc3sstt8u50j9xphreppg0qprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqgs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47srqsqqqqqpq6dgvz 
 Nice work, thank you! 

Can you remove the "Nostr note made by npub" or make it optional?   I think it becomes irritating to readers if it's on every tweet.   Also, ideally, the njump me link would go to an njump for the nostr post, not my profile. 


https://void.cat/d/EftEAhMYxJBUxVKqt6ZqdE.webp 
 I agree. I dont like seeing that either.  
 [Apologies if this is the wrong place to post feedback for this service -- please feel free to direct me to a better place.]

Thanks again for creating this service!  It's great--I'm glad to have it.   My feedback is only intended to help improve the service.  

1.  I know Twitter doesn't yet support uploading longform tweets via the API.   When it becomes possible to do so,  I would prefer that the tweet not be truncated.   

2. May we also have a flag to turn off the njump link?  Unfortunately, Twitter posts mostly a duplicate of the tweet as a preview in blinding black on white text.  

3.  Would like to be able to upload attached images directly to Twitter.  As I think only one image per upload is allowed, upload the first image in the tweet, if there are multiple images. 

Example tweet posted below. 

https://m.primal.net/HPXV.png
   
 Ok I finally managed to sit down and think about this after I got over the jet lag and getting sick. I translated all the suggestions into GitHub issues to make sure that they aren’t lost.

I think posting long tweets would make perfect sense and would let us remove the njump links completely which you mentioned as a problem in the second point. That being said I agree that right now I don’t think this is possible using the API? I feel like it should be so maybe there is a way but the docs for the new API aren’t great right now I feel.

https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/41

Regarding the njump links: I like them because it helps find the original content but at the same time I agree that they look awkward and out of place. I can think of multiple approaches:
- skip rendering njump links when notes aren’t cut off because they fit in one tweet
- remove njump links completely even if a note is cut off
- don’t post notes which are too long
- post long notes as threads with multiple tweets
- let people decide what to do on a per-feed basis which unfortunately complicates the website

All of those solutions have downsides and I don’t know what the best one is.

https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/44

Images can be posted directly to twitter but the problem is that that loses context around where that image was in the note. For example I often post links to content images and write in between them like I did in this note. This just doesn’t translate into the twitter format.

https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/42

Basically I feel we are dealing with all the typical problems of crossposting from one platform to another :(

If anyone has any suggestions regarding any of those problems please let me know. 
 A related issue with long links in addition to the awkwardness is that this, for example: https://njump.me/nevent1qqst06sg76dyyv5n8n0drgaaeyll7m8ffll66f27xyudfnac646je6q68dhq6

takes 85/500 chars on Mastodon toot.
24/300 in Bsky (it’s capped on URLs) or none if posted as an embed and not in the body), and
43/300 in X (if I got it right).

That makes cross-posting or composing notes hard to do at once. 
Weirdly, you can put more characters on Bsky by deleting the URL from the body text than what X allows (for non-verified) 😁
 
 nostr:note1e8ak4uha7gdfktx48mkh7ry6qgpfgfxczwcjvzfncn3xhg8mfumqyf4mvz
"Xアカウントにログインし、Nostr IDを追加して、Nostrで公開するすべてのものがXに反映されるようにします" nos.social 
 We’re getting errors where twitter says we’re over their rate limit but we’re like 1% of it. It’s become an unreliable platform again.  
 That sucks. 
 “again” 😆 
 Vrai mon compte chez eux a disparu depuis juin or j'avais téléchargé mes archives en avril 2022 avant qu'il n'achète par contraintes