Hmmm, what is going on here? I noticed this a couple of times in the recent past already. Very old twts appear in my client as unread. The pattern seems to be that there is always repeated text in square brackets and some of them contain equal signs. Is yarnd corrupting feeds somehow? I kind of doubt that people actually typed that themselves.
Last time, it was @bender@twtxt.net’s feed that showed me new weird twts in my client. I don’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure it was this week. Refetching his feed a couple of times (across multiple days) and I got new messages.
And it just happened again, this time with @mckinley@twtxt.net’s feed. This twt from 2023-01-09T22:42:37Z here newly popped up, it contains magic bracketed text: