Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
I’d like to change that. It’s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn’t have to be hacky all the time, as you don’t need to be a nerd to have a blog.
But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others
Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you don’t want that, unless you are a ā€˜public figure’.
I couldn’t say that a microblogging is a ā€œsocial networkā€ by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as you’d do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

  • Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you don’t, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of ā€œYour ā€˜followings’ are following these accounts/peopleā€. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  • Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying ā€œHey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discoveredā€. I’m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

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