[HN Gopher] Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging s...
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Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for
hackers
Author : Gedxx
Score : 79 points
Date : 2024-12-22 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twtxt.readthedocs.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (twtxt.readthedocs.io)
| deadbabe wrote:
| With a name like Twtxt how are you supposed to easily talk about
| it with other people? Not even one vowel
| sn0n wrote:
| I think I'd pronounce it as, Twit-ext?
| freetinker wrote:
| This is correct. The rest are incorrect.
| zeograd wrote:
| Intuitively, I read it as "tweetext"
| PNewling wrote:
| 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
| linsomniac wrote:
| The upvotes on the pronunciation in the sibling comments should
| be considered legally binding and will be the authoritative
| pronunciation. Upvote carefully.
| mikae1 wrote:
| Talk? You write about it, on a (mechanical) keyboard.
| Aloha wrote:
| twit-text is how I would pronounce it.
| kstrauser wrote:
| If it becomes popular, I'm pronouncing it "twixt", even if it's
| wrong.
| guerrilla wrote:
| This has to be it.
| hackernewds wrote:
| I inferred Twittext so it's not ideally designed for virality
| huijzer wrote:
| 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).
| elpocko wrote:
| Not a huge problem: it existed for 9 years and no one is
| talking about it.
| tux wrote:
| It kind of sounds like twitter extension. This is what i
| thought of it as when i first seen it. This can be very
| confusing.
| smitty1e wrote:
| I suppose that if one were motivated, one would run a
| https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt service and then point the
| audience to it.
|
| Not clear that the juice would be worth the squeeze over, e.g.
| Mastadon.
| bityard wrote:
| Not a Welsh speaker, I see
| fsiefken wrote:
| 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
| simonw wrote:
| I found it surprisingly hard to find live examples of sites
| running 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)
| ahazred8ta wrote:
| The current list of active yarn.social/twtxt sites is at
|
| https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds (there are quite a lot)
|
| The community name is YARN; 'twtxt' is the protocol name.
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _A Decentralised Social Network_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33513022 - Nov 2022 (1
| comment)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25246533 (Nov 2020)
|
| _Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised
| MicroBlogging Platform_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242996 - Nov 2020 (27
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: Twtxt v0.0.7 Your self-hosted, decentralised Twitter
| -like_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23945300 - July
| 2020 (7 comments)
|
| _Twtxt.net - Attempting to respark the twtxt community_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23892491 - July 2020 (1
| comment)
|
| _Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for
| hackers_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23507640 - June
| 2020 (1 comment)
|
| _Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for
| hackers_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23312756 - May
| 2020 (1 comment)
|
| _Show HN: Txtnish - a client for the microblogging platform
| twtxt_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742949 - Feb 2017
| (4 comments)
|
| _Show HN: htwtxt - hosted twtxt server (written in Go)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11091592 - Feb 2016 (2
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: Twtxt - Decentralised, minimalist microblogging
| service for hackers_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043502 - Feb 2016 (65
| comments)
| ruthmarx wrote:
| So how big is the Twtxt community? How many Twtxters?
| zimpenfish wrote:
| I think I only ever interacted with 2 whilst I was
| experimenting with twtxt.
| ahazred8ta wrote:
| https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds (There are hundreds of us!!
| HUNDREDS!!!) /s
| briandear wrote:
| 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.
| briandear wrote:
| Also, I forgot that Mastadoon is/was also a thing. Are there any
| original ideas out there rather than another "Twitter but not
| Twitter" clone?
| bityard wrote:
| Twitter, but your tweets are stored on a blockchain with smart
| contracts written by LLMs. In Rust.
| 2muchcoffeeman wrote:
| Why do we even need a microblogging platform? Twitter turned into
| a dumpster fire. Why will these other alternatives not have the
| same fate?
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