I also totally get whet you’re saying about a twtxt file potentially growing to be huge. I guess that, and the fact that it’s necessary to work around it with a significant caching architecture, is a major downside to the model of twtxt itself which I hadn’t considered.

@prologic@twtxt.net so far as I can see both your and my most recent replies to #x6zqkha just disappeared - a bug?

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah sorry, gotcha. 😀
Hmm, you make an interesting point. I would assume that most links a user would add would be to their own profiles, but maybe not all?
The Metadata spec says “A link to some other resource which is often connected to the feed or author”.
I think my inclination would be yes, add it to all of them, but I can also see that a user could put links there that aren’t their own. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm I don’t recall any trouble getting federation working (with Synapse), what issue are you having? The federation tester is failing on your domain for me; it’s getting a timeout:

Get "https://104.21.85.152:8448/_matrix/key/v2/server": context deadline exceeded

@prologic@twtxt.net have you considered adding rel="me" to “User Links”?

@prologic@twtxt.net Not true, they use the Signal protocol (well, admittedly you have to take their word for that, since the app is closed source…). But FB does indeed have access to the metadata – who you’re talking to and when – which is why I do my best to avoid it. (Signal have access to the same metadata if you use Signal, but I trust them better with it… I’d still rather nobody had it, which is why I prefer Matrix.)

More info here and here.

What’s the closest alternative to “retweeting” something on twtxt? Simply “replying” to a post?

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha thanks. I’m not normally big on microblogging but thought I’d give it a try. If I get into it I’d hope to end up running my own instance / something else compatible (probably single-user so maybe my own instance of Yarn.social itself is overkill??)

Hello twtxt!