It's quite buggy. Any minor change from the norm (config directory, txt file directory) seemed to break it. Finally I went with the standards and it still had trouble. `twtxt following` gives you errors. At first I thought it was because I wasn't following anyone, even though I chose to follow the twtxt news feed, but I never got rid of the error. I got errors about "feed not available" even though the txt files were there (maybe version differences?)
It sounds kinda interesting, honestly, but I give up.
Not a bad idea, light enough to implement a telegram bot everyone can use or email or maybe a bitlbee plugin so you can have a twtxt channel.
But, what is it? can you PM someone? participate in a conversation? or is it just that, a microblog? Usability wise what will you do? keep a client running that always checks if new blogs have happened over, how many followers? I'm currently following 500 people, that's 500 connections if this takes off.
It would be nice if an rss client supported it, until then ehh
I was using it for years before moving to Mastodon, then Nostr.
It did work rather well, is easy to code for, and I still have people pulling from my twtxt file, but it does get a bit tiresome managing follows etc with the clumsy apps.
And not having a decent mobile app made it less fun to use on what for me is social media's primary use case - while on the loo hahaha.
The upvotes on the pronunciation in the sibling comments should be considered legally binding and will be the authoritative pronunciation. Upvote carefully.
Huh, in my head I was reading it 'twit-text' (this is not meant to be a pejorative comment), but I guess that is ascribing it another 't' where there isn't one
There is a long history of confusing or weird project names in computing like sqlite, gif, Splunk, Hadoop, Coq, MongoDB (from humongous apparently), yacc, C, R, and X (the window manager; not a lang or the social media site).
perhaps someone can implement it in the bluesky pds as an additional feature https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds put caddy in front of it for brotli compression so it serves fast on 1k2 links
I actually liked bitclout, seemed like it would work really well for artists' fundraising for an album release or a tour etc. featured no-fee "tips" of all sizes right next to the like button and kept users addicted with day trading mechanics tied to artists' popularity. Money flowed freely across borders and moderation was going to be handled by clients.
afaik there was never any rugpull of the base currency, but it turned out to be a platform ideally suited to rugpulling and impersonating celebrities. Plus if you thought drama on Twitter was bad just try pinning your bank balance to individuals' reputations and see how well everyone gets along.
Peertube [0], Lemmy [1], and Pixelfed [2] all run on the same protocol as Mastodon. You can interact across all of them (e.g. Mastodon user replies to Peertube video post), but the presentation on each is very different.
There's more as well. Like Friendica [3] feels a little bit like Facebook, and Hubzilla [4] feels a bit like Google+ used to. Diaspora feels a bit more basic, but similar concept to Friendica.
pixelfed looks nice. Instagram has been the only social I kept around because it's nice to look at pictures but they've recently transitioned to full on Tiktok/yt shorts competitor, I'd love to jump ship to something that's just photographs again.
Never tried lemmy, are the separate servers essentially "subreddits" ? That's cool that there aren't any global admins so each community really can have their own moderation rules.
What problem is this solving? Not a criticism, just genuinely curious. On X, I can follow hackers, I can block/mute and curate as I want. Just not sure who asked for this.
The directory at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/we-are-twtxt gave me an error, but I found it in the Internet Archive (19th September 2024):
https://web.archive.org/web/20240919022045/https://git.mills...
Here's a live example from that list: https://niplav.site/twtxt.txt - and that one shows ones its following, this one has recent posts (from December 2024): https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt
The last commit to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/commits/master/ is October 2023, so I don't think this project is 100% thriving at the moment.
Update: Aha! Found https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html and via it https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/tweets which shows some recent content across the network.
Also https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/users looks to be a list of users, though I couldn't figure out how to paginate it (using ?page=3 doesn't seem to work, despite that being listed on the https://registry.twtxt.org/swagger-ui/ page)
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