@prologic@twtxt.net I do think the post about how to setup jenny + mutt over on the uninformativ.de blog is still a great post. I used that post to see the steps to set it up and it works fine. Though I can write some blog post with some more documentation for things like auto publishing. The big issue with plain twtxt is that I would have not seen your post unless I looked on twtxt.net when I was looking at yarn a little bit more. Twtxt does overcome the issue by introducing the registry but I can’t figure out any way to use them for Jenny and almost no one uses them in the first place. So I can’t see anyones replies or mentions unless I am following them. Yarn does overcome the issue by friends of friends as you would know as the creator of yarn.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz Re discovery and registries (forking this)… Registries don’t really work, even though I am fully aware they were part of the original Twtxt spec, they don’t work in practise for a variety of reasons. So Yarn.social pods (running yarnd) never implemented them. Instead we tried to solve this problem in other ways, by extending the spec (See https://dev.twtxt.net) and building an ecosystem. To that end, to date, we actually have a search engine and crawler (though it could use some love) that makes it possible to both search and discover new feeds. If you’re curious, check out search.twtxt.net - It runs on modest hardware in my home-based infra (all self hosted, non-cloud).

Of course we can continue to improve things, that’s for sure. Open to suggestions, improvements and contributions! I hope you’ve found our issue tracker and org 🤞 If not, https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah I don’t even know how to use them once I added myself to the registries. The jarn search engine is similar to the registries thing but its easier to search and find things from. Also I assume its easier to use it in the yarn pods and whatever elese to get new posts. I would always like to see yarn work with regular twtxt because there is advantges to plain twtxt.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz Yarn will always work with Twtxt – That’s the point. Yarn.social pods basically are fancy multi-user clients with a Web interface and API. They form a distributed network and are decebtwakised (obviously). And finally they are also accessible via a Mobile App called Goryon.!s

@prologic@twtxt.net That is why yarn is better then something like activity pub. Everything over on activity pub tries to work with Mastodon not because its better but because its the most popular. Twtxt clients on the other hand tries to work with the yarn additions because most of the additions improve things even for twtxt users.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz Yup 👌