@tamer@twtxt.net We’re not trying to compete with anything… If you’ve read About Yarn.social – In a nutshell I want to create an open, transparent social platform that respect’s folks privacy and freedoms. It must also be easy to use and down-to-earth where human interactions actually matter. None of this rubbish of manipulating what you see, driving up engagement numbers to serve your advertisers and all that garbage

@tamer@twtxt.net Oh I see what you’re saying… Yes but we’re not really strictly wanting to compete with anyone or anything. We’re building this for a purpose and there is a very clear vision in mind 👌 In fact part of the goals is to eventually setup a Not-for-Profit organization around Yarn.social 👌

@tamer@twtxt.net We tried having a full Blogging feature. It was half baked, missing quite a lot of functionality folks were used to with full-blogging engines, and it didn’t really work all that well really. So we dropped it and refocused our efforts.

The accepted norm now is to just publish a link with a nice title to your Blog post and see if anyone finds it interesting enough to Yarn about 👌 – There’s a “Bookmarklet” tool you can find in Settings under “Tools” that makes this a snap 👌

@tamer@twtxt.net Sorry dude, I mean all the respect in the world, but this literally makes no fucking sense. Half of what you said isn’t even grammatically correct, let alone some of the spelling! 😂 I know I’m particularly bad with tpyos, just ask anyone on Yarn.social 🤦‍♂️ – But some of what I’ve picked apart of what you’re saying just dodn’t line up at all with the Roadmap/goals and overall vision. Sorry 🤗 To be clear:

The Mobile App is a client to a Pod. it does not go against the “vision”.

And if you’re concerned at all about Yarn pods being “data collecting” servers
let me assure you they are NOT.

This is the “data” that is stored in a typical Pod for a given User:

{
  "Key": "/users/admin",
  "Value": {
    "Username": "admin",
    "Password": "32768$8$7$7ab59fdc0923c558566cc2c5b4b0585c$cb9be16b339739fc3c786a9a41964af7e7a0183fd06489c9a7877369b4ed84ea",
    "Tagline": "",
    "URL": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/admin/twtxt.txt",
    "CreatedAt": "2022-01-11T19:09:40.613876+10:00",
    "LastSeenAt": "2022-01-12T10:00:00+10:00",
    "Theme": "auto",
    "Lang": "",
    "Recovery": "email:bzlvdqbg4vb3f2flf2ygbgo2uhi6lx2ho6hxpb72vnc434jp4oua",
    "AvatarHash": "",
    "DisplayDatesInTimezone": "UTC",
    "DisplayTimePreference": "24h",
    "OpenLinksInPreference": "newwindow",
    "HideRepliesPreference": false,
    "DisplayImagesPreference": "inline",
    "DisplayMedia": true,
    "OriginalMedia": false,
    "IsFollowersPubliclyVisible": true,
    "IsFollowingPubliclyVisible": true,
    "IsBookmarksPubliclyVisible": true,
    "Feeds": [
      "news",
      "help",
      "support"
    ],
    "Bookmarks": {},
    "Followers": {},
    "Following": {
      "admin": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/admin/twtxt.txt",
      "help": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/help/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "help@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/help/twtxt.txt",
      "news": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/news/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "news@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/news/twtxt.txt",
      "prologic": "https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt",
      "support": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/support/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "support@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/support/twtxt.txt"
    },
    "Muted": {}
  }
}

Couple of things to note:

• We do not store Email addresses – Only a “Recovery Hash”
  
• LastSeenAt is only accurate to a day.
  
• Everything else you see is what is also publiclly visbhle on your feed itself
  
• The Settings allow you to turn on/off visibility of your “Following” and “Followers” as well as “Bookmarks”
  

Every other field in the dadtabase on User object is quite literally driving the
very nice User Expeirence that @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com and @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com has worked so hard on.

@prologic@twtxt.net sorry about the spelling mistakes. English is my third language.
Also I didn’t mean to question the vision as such.
Just ment a mobile up that pulls in files directly from the users follow list would line up better with the idea of decentralizing personal data. Since not everyone will be running a pod, but most everyone can have a public facing folder. Specially now with services like Skynet coming online.
Sorry hope I didn’t offend you too much.

@tamer@twtxt.net All good 👌