twtxt critic: Unfortunately the original values seam to have been eroded. Yarn is turning twtxt in to a cheap copy of Mastodon without the benefit of the Fediverse. What happened to everybody hosting their own twt files in a public facing folder?
I was hoping development would have gone in the direction to help people to publish to a personnel held public facing folder via FTP, Dropbox, Sia Skynet, IPFS etc. And servers would just be search engines, and proxies etc.
I appreciate the hard work that has gone in to the Yarn.social however …
@tamer@twtxt.net I’m sorry you feel that Yarn.social is a cheap copy of Mastoon. I don’t share that opinion obviously and I do not share the same “beliefs” in federation as being necessary.
I hope you’ve read About Yarn.social before making this critique…
You are welcome to chose a different platform, in fact you are absolutely free to Host your own Twtxt – In fact it’s pretty damn clear mate that you can do that if you wish. The Specs are freely published and open.
Your specific comment:
I was hoping development would have gone in the direction to help people to publish to a personnel held public facing folder via FTP, Dropbox, Sia Skynet, IPFS etc
Is counter productive to the project’s goal. We aim to make things as simple as possible for end-users, whilst at the same time publishing open specs that improve the overall experience and utility. My old man for example would never in his life do what you’re suggesting.
Try to remember there are all kinds of people in the world, some without any technical expertise.
@tamer@twtxt.net I don’t think you really understand 😁 If you have time we can jump on a video call and discuss more face to face 🤗
@tamer@twtxt.net Sorry I accidentally didn’t post to this thread
@tamer@twtxt.net Feel free to build on mate 👌
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you for your support! 🙇♂️ It is very much graciously appreciated! 🤗
It reminds me of when I was complaining about Facebook on Facebook 🤔
@tamer@twtxt.net It’s completely different. It’s just funny to me saying “Facebook is bad, don’t use it”. Here you are listened to by the designers and influence the product/system, I love that!
From the thread, maybe saying ‘cheap copy’ was harsh for an open product. I, being harsh sometimes, get it’s difficult to be open and polite at the same time.
I have been accused of not being nice enough before, look like a character flow of mine. I think there are two sides to keep in mind. A coder who is heavily invested in his project. And me trying to be helpful. Obviously if I didn’t care I would have just walked away. But what I see here is a profoundly talented coder, who got lost in details. I am trying to give an outside view, from 20.000 feet above ground if you will. I am no enforcement agent, just trying to help.
My offer for an open video call is still on the table btw…
I will be holding one this Saturday at around 12pm (midday) UTC – I usually do every week