Friday February 3, 2023; 2:50 PM EST
- As far as I can tell, there are two points of integration between Drummer and Twitter. One is the ability to send a tweet from Drummer, which I think will go away due to Twitter's API change. One can send a post to Mastodon (look in Settings) but only via Dave's Mastodon server. The second integration is for identity authentication, and this item will have to be replaced in order for Drummer to continue functioning. I believe Dave has a plan, the clue though is in FeedLand and not visible in Drummer. FeedLand has an option under Tools to Connect with email. I anticipate that authentication to FeedLand, and in the future Drummer, will be like it is today with micro.blog, where you register an email address and provide that address when you log in from another device, which generates an email with a login link. When you click the login link a authentication token is dropped in the browser cache and you are able to access the application.#
- Drummer is using Twither for OAuth authentication, which in my experience drops a cookie in the browser cache that persists until one clears the cache or logs out. Right now I am logged in to Drummer using Firefox on this PC and there is no further interaction between Firefox, Drummer, and Twitter on this PC. As long as the browser cache is in this state I should have access to Drummer even when Twitter shuts down the API because the only time the API comes in to play is when you first log in. #
- What will not work once the Twitter API closes is the ability to log in to Drummer on another computer or another web browser on this same computer. For this we will need Dave to change the method being used by Drummer to authenticate, and it appears to me he intends to do using email. Dave could switch to another OAuth provider like Github or Google, but the email method that micro.blog uses removes any dependency on another company, all Dave depends on is that his users have an email address. (What is not clear to me, even with micro.blog, is how one can change their email address and retain access. As long as one can log in, their ok, but if something really bad where to happen, I don't know what are the alternatives.). #