This looks like a very cool project. Unfortunately, it won't work for me personally... Twitter Developer Account is a showstopper for most people. I get 403 Forbiddens when requesting a token, and relying on Twitter's API after the last couple weeks in general is kinda 😥, even though it's clearly the least jank solution.

Would be easier to pull Twitter -> Nostr than Nostr -> Twitter. The same flow really applies for any social network site, since they're all closed and hostile. Would be nice to have a single onboarding tool for Nostr that basically runs snscrape/checks rss/whatever against your Twitter/FB/Instagram/Tiktok, and unjails the user's content by re-posting over here. Could even schedule it to pull updates for X period.

I think it would help a lot of folks ease the transition to Nostr if we could make tell them "it's not Twitter, Instagram, or Tiktok: it's *all* of them. MOVE YOUR POSTS WITH ONE TRICK DOCTORS HATE."

Mirroring an open site to populate a closed one feels to me a bit like taking artwork from a museum to decorate a dumpster. Rescuing something from the dumpster to display in the museum feels a little more like a public service.

If somebody does it, them should do it under nym, rather than true name, imo, to preempt harrassment.

But I'm just thinking out loud.

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> Mirroring an open site to populate a closed one feels to me a bit like taking artwork from a museum to decorate a dumpster. Rescuing something from the dumpster to display in the museum feels a little more like a public service.

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Perhaps it will cause some of his followers from Twitter to give Nostr a try if they wish to interact with him.

I do also understand your point tho. The Fediverse has a lot of bots crossposting from Twitter accounts and it can get a bit annoying. The only bot I willing follow is Snowden.

I'm more curious if crossposting between Nostr and the Fediverse is possible.

Even if APIs are closed and scraper scripts somehow blocked, you can always do a browser extension that saves your posts from FB / Twitter to Nostr as you view them. They can't prevent it, and making backups of your own content is always kosher.