jeffalo — 6/22/2023, 7:36:49 PM

>former twitter employees create a site literally called twitter2

>incremental user ids

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lily:

wait what's wrong w incremental user ids

7/4/2023, 7:52:05 AM
jeffalo:

it leaks user count, it leaks who joined before/after you and most importantly it is super easy to scrape

7/4/2023, 8:26:50 PM
lily:

how do i fix that? every program with a user i have ever written uses incremental (and twitter’s post does that i think)

also, i would have a user count endpoint anyway

i understand why the second thing is bad although it could become meta

i definitely understand why the last is bad so that’s why i’m asking how to fix it (though that’s how we got all the scratch projects so there are some positives)

7/4/2023, 8:35:36 PM
oren:

link?

6/22/2023, 9:15:45 PM
jeffalo:

t2.social

6/22/2023, 9:36:05 PM
oren:

looks like knockoff mastodon

6/22/2023, 9:37:51 PM
lily:

no it does not

7/4/2023, 7:52:38 AM
9999:

is this real

6/22/2023, 8:11:30 PM
jeff:

its not a bug its a feature:tm:

so you can view and scrape all the users and prove theyre not bots yourself /j

6/22/2023, 7:59:16 PM