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Title: Twtxt, Yarn, and Breaking Changes
Date: March 27, 2026

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  One of the things that drew me to the original Twtxt[0]
and its spec was that, as something hosted in a plain text
file, it was readable by the user, and somewhat writable by
hand. Even though I no longer user social media, I've kept
up with that community a little to see where they take the
spec under the stewardship of James Mills and the Twtxt v2
extensions, mostly through Twtxt.net[1].

  Well, I'd been loosely paying attention to the new thread
hashing extension, but hadn't been watching the git repo
where it was being done. Someone linked to it pushing for
people to leave feedback, and I clicked through. I kinda
regret doing so, mostly thanks to one comment made by Mills
in the issue[2]:

> Twtxt should not be human writeable really, we can of
> course keep using the format largely as-is so it remains
> "sort of" human readable, but let's be honest. Nobody
> writes Email by hand or transmits those emails via SMTP
> by hand. Nobody, unless you're a developer writing mail
> server or client software.
>
> So no you didn't miss anything. I've just made the
> decision.

  Like, the whole point of Twtxt is "It's plaint text and
fairly readable/writable by the person using it." If you
want a client, sure, you can use one, but it's not required
to do so. This just takes that entire concept and shoves it
out the airlock over a black hole.

  With that mentality, I'm not going to continue to watch
Twtxt grow. That comment, and the fact that it was a
completely unilateral decision by one person to push it
into being, actually kinda killed my interest entirely. I
don't use social media, but twtxt was something I backed
for people who wanted that in their life. Not any longer.

  This doesn't really affect the twtxt community. It's what
they want to use, and I support that at the least. I'm just
no longer interested in the format. They can have fun, and
I'll cheer that on, at least. That's what a community is
for, after all.

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[0]: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
[1]: https://twtxt.net/
[2]: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28