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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by darkhorn on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:25AM (#25464680)
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by Tipewryter on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:37AM (#25464747)
That is a software repo. Not a public centralized service that lets users communicate with each other.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by lixtra on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:54AM (#25464849)
One more click leads to https://joinmastodon.org/

> ... centralized ...

That was not in the GP’s requirements.

Edit: plus: GP explicitly asked for software.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by Nemo_bis on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:56AM (#25464857)
Why do you want it to be centralised? Surely a federated system like email is just as fine, if it provides a good user experience?
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by Tipewryter on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:58AM (#25464872)
If. But so far, no federated system has resulted in good user experience.
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