@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

**(#6kkpdda) This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  

• Sharing links
  

• Sharing media
  

• Having long conversat …**
  This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts

• Sharing links

• Sharing media

• Having long conversations

• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions

• RSVPing to virtual or physical events ⌘ Read more

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as “client” features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  
• RSVP – a way to “rsvp” to a virtual (pr physical) event.
  

Both would use “plain text” on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could …
💡 I had this crazy idea ( or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience ( for those that use it) and as “client” features ( not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.

• RSVP – a way to “ … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
Alec MacGillis,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Fascist authoritarians like Despot Trump and his minions don’t ever like objectively verifiable databases to be compiled or maintained because the information can be used to prove how inferior their social policies are. If you have been reading my research papers (see SR arch … ⌘ Read more

Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

• 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
  
• 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
  
• 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
  
• 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
  
• 2024+ – Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods

**(#2dh7m3q) Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

• 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microbloggin …**
  Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

• 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging

• 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche

• 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic @twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI

• 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media … ⌘ Read more

I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging format introduced by John Downey in 2016. It uses plain text files served over HTTP—no accounts, databases, or APIs.
In 2020, James Mills (@prologic@twtxt.net) launched Yarn.social, an extended, federated implementation with user discovery, threads, mentions, and a full web UI.
Both share the same .twtxt.txt format but differ in complexity and social features.

**I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging form …**
I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging format introduced by John Downey in 2016. It uses plain text files served over HTTP—no accounts, databases, or APIs.

In 2020, James Mills ( @prologic @twtxt.net) launched Yarn.social, an extended, federated implementat … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note
,    -

Stephan:

_Like billions of others across the planet I have been watching for months now as the entire social order of the United States of America is dismantled in an attempt to create a neo-medieval oligarch owned white supremacy, male dominant, authoritarian fascist state. [1], [2], [3] As I write this we are not the same country we were before January 2025, and the destruction of the na … ⌘ Read more

Apple Sports App Now Lets You Share Game Cards via iMessage and Social Media
Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature.

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With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, … ⌘ Read more

i must stop ghosting all my social media except discord and fedi when i am depressed. ghosting is the mind killer

@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes having a set of specifications that anyone can write clients to.

(#mymzn2a) @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes …
@doesnm.p.psf.lt @doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes having a set of specifications that anyone can write clients to. ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I don’t see any “fighting” here. This is just good experimentation. Unfortunately there hasn’t really been enough time or effort by other “client authors” yet, me especially as I’ve been super busy with ya’ know my “day job” that pays the bills and refactoring yarnd to use a new and shiny and much better SqliteCache 🤣 – I certainly don’t think your efforts are wasted at all. I would however like @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt encourage you to look at the work we’ve done as a community (which was also driven out of the Yarn.social / Twtxt community years back).

Overcoming social anxiety starts with having confidence! ⌘ Read more

Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews
Laura Silver, Jordan Lippert, and Andrew Prozorovsky,  Research Staff  -  Rew Research Center

_Stephan: I am following reliable research polls on Trump and his administration because I have been so surprised at how many Americans still support his coup, and his destruction of the economy, social security, education, and healthcare. My explanation for this is that a large per … ⌘ Read more

The manosphere and networked misogyny
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA , Dr. Calogero Giametta, PhD , Dr. Jacob Johanssen, PhD & Dr. Irida Ntalla, PhD,    -  Nature

_Stephan: One of the many negative effects of social media is the rise of the manosphere. I had no idea until I began to research this the weaponization of misinformation how many American men, particularly young men, are weak, psychologically disturbed, insecure about their manhood, and threatened by women. In the United States ri … ⌘ Read more

Bluesky Gains Twitter-Like Message Reactions and New Search Page
Bluesky is rolling out a new update introducing features that might ease the transition for social media users coming over from X (Twitter).

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First up, version 1.100 adds emoji reactions to Bluesky’s direct messaging system. Users can now respond to messages with quick emoji reactions by holding down on … ⌘ Read more

‘Fossil Fuels Are Killing Us’: Major Study Details How Fossil Fuels Are Driving Climate, Health and Biodiversity Crises
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: As a madman and his enabling oligarchs and quisling Senators and Representatives are dismantling American democracy, social order, and economy they are also destroying all efforts to stop the planetary disaster being wrough … ⌘ Read more

** leibovitz **
Folks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another camera application for the web. Leibovitz combines a lot that I learned making my other camera applications into one, hopefully less clunky package.

With leibovitz you can either take new photos, or upload any image file and apply filters to it. The UX to toggle between the two modes is … ⌘ Read more

The billionaire-filled city so secretive it does not want outsiders to know that it exists
James Cirrone,  News Reporter  -  Mail Online (U.K.)

Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz the site i mentioned last week that got flooded by teens? yeah it’s this site, based on the retrospring codebase, it’s a social Q&A site. ask me stuff on there!!!!!!!!

TikTok Gets Another 75-Day Reprieve From Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump today said that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days as his administration continues to work on the sale of the social network’s U.S. operations.

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TikTok was barred from operating in the United States when the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [went into effect on January 19 … ⌘ Read more

Nem é preciso ir espreitar as notícias da #nintendo, a Ciberlândia é a minha fonte

(aguardando pelos takes dos correspondentes @seyon, @RuteRadio e @ines@ines)

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.

Sanders Says 67,000 Could Die Awaiting Benefits Under Musk Cuts to Social Security Administration
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I am writing this the media is telling me that Republicans have won the two House races in Florida, a state where many people can’t get home insurance; where universities are having courses removed, and public school curricula is being altered from education to indoctrinati … ⌘ Read more

iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps
Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 software update appears to be causing long-deleted apps to reappear on some users’ iPhones, based on corroborating reports on forums and social media.

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Several Reddit threads ( 1, 2, 3, [4 … ⌘ Read more

DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In ‘Months’
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine … ⌘ Read more

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 ‘public figure’.
I couldn’t say that a microblogging is a “social network” 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 “Your ‘followings’ are following these accounts/people”. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  
• Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying “Hey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discovered”. I’m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

(#7xubh7a) @bender@bender I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to …
@bender @twtxt.net I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to easily discovers others except through social interactions and a sort of “word of mouth” of human exchanges of communications. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

Thank you @python_valencia@twtxt.python-valencia.es for letting me show you the secrets of a decentralised plain text social network like twtxt.
I hope you enjoyed the talk! ❤️🐍

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Un système de santé plein de (mauvaises) surprises
Tout en se gardant bien de le recopier, le monde entier nous envie notre système de sécurité sociale français. Mais si. C’est en tout cas ce qui nous est dit et seriné depuis des années. La réalité est cependant plus contrastée et ces colonnes se font parfois l’écho de ces petites bizarreries qui font tout […] ⌘ Read more

Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
Joe Lancaster ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

_Stephan: In the course of my life, as I have studied how wellbeing fostering social transformations can be made to happen, I have spent a considerable amount of time in fascist, authoritarian, and communist countries. One of the things I learned over those years is that the people in those countries become very sensitive to tripwires … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum

Most Monero-related discussions happen on slave tech platforms, which are vulnerable to censorship and surveillance. It’s time to embrace freedom tech. You can now sign messages with your private keys and submit them to different networks at MoneroTop forum, which is powered by Spasm - the future of social media.

Links:

• https://monero.top
  
• https://spasm.network
  

degenrocket (Session) ⌘ Read more

well… it has been an opportunity to build an artisanal microblogging client on top of a minimalist protocol. I agree on the hacker toy part.

And of course it’s about being part of a niche community which is (mostly) amazing, and nurturing. As there is almost no one writing in my native spanish, it has been an interesting challenge to share my thoughts in english, as well.

I couldn’t say it’s a ‘social network’ per se, I think it lack many engagement things usually associated with social networks, although it has a social part of igniting discussions, learnings and behavioral changes, which is the meaning of social for me.

What is twtxt for me? It is a community of users sharing plain text following a specification that can be readable by both humans and machines.

For some it is a microblogging platform, for others it is a social network, others see it as an enhanced RSS feed and a few consider it a hacker’s toy. I use it as a learning platform. And as collateral damage, I’m meeting some very interesting people.

And for you?

[LTH] [Bounty] [0.1 XMR] Stack Wallet - Add missing icons for swap providers
Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/184/

b4n6_b4n6 (Github) ⌘ Read more

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s how twtxt started: As microblogging. Yarn shifted up some gears and now it’s more like social media – more powerful, but a bit different. 😅

Bluesky Extends Video Limit, Adds DM Filtering in Latest App Update
Bluesky has released an update that makes it possible for users to post longer videos to the social media platform and X (Twitter) rival. Version 1.99 triples the maximum video length from 60 seconds to three minutes, addressing one of users’ most frequent requests.

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As shared in a [Blue … ⌘ Read more

10 Persistent Misconceptions About Africa
You know how some people think there is only New York or only California in the U.S.? The same kind of thing happens with Africa. Those who don’t live on the mother continent often have strange misconceptions about it. For example, Africa is a country. Log onto any social media platform, and you will find […]

The post 10 Persistent Misconceptions About Africa appeared fi … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [Bounty] Generate Feather icon for desktop entry in local dir

Icon missing when “creating .desktop entry” after reboot on Tails. Creating it the icon in .local would fix this issue.

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/183/

n/a ⌘ Read more

Plants Are Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide as Emissions Rise
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: It hardly gets discussed in social or corporate media, but the breakdown of the matrix of life on Earth is become more pronounced with every passing year. I think, as I describe in the two papers of mine you can download and read, that because we aren’t just not doing enough, under criminal Trump all prepar … ⌘ Read more

Yes, Mozilla Receives USAID Money.
The Firefox maker spends millions from tax payers on “social and political” training, “centering marginalized groups”, and “engaging race, gender, sexuality perspectives”. ⌘ Read more

What we know about Medicare ending telehealth coverage in April 2025
Amelia Clarke,  Contributing Writer  -  Snopes

_Stephan: The Trump coup is explicitly designed to make you and your family less healthy. Of course, Trump and his Frankenstein Musk don’t say that, but what they are doing tells us everything we need to know. There is an enormous amount of misinformation on the social media platforms about telemedicine. But this report on Snopes, I think, ca … ⌘ Read more

General Services Administration cuts tech unit
Danny Nguyen,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: As with all fascist oligarch governments, criminal Trump and his minions are cutting off information the government provided for free as a service. The result will be that help and support from a wide range of agencies, including Social Security, IRS, Medicare, and Medicaid, will be severely limited in the support they can provide. Given the last month’s news about what Trump’s cou … ⌘ Read more

Delicious Foods That Were Born from Mistakes and Stubbornness
History is filled with inventions born out of necessity, but some of the world’s most famous foods exist simply because someone felt petty. Whether it was a battle against big corporations, a middle finger to social norms, or just a chef refusing to admit they made a mistake, these foods exist solely because someone wanted […]

The post [Delicious Foods That Were Born from Mistakes and Stubbornness](https://li … ⌘ Read more

I read a lot about Clean Code, SOLID, TDD, DDD… now I’m discovering «A Philosophy of Software Design»… but nobody talks about the importance of the project architecture. Do we depend on the framework to do the work for us?
You know I’m a big fan of Clean Architecture, but I feel alone when I share my thoughts on social media or at work.
You have to think outside the framework.

Community managers in action: Leading a developer community for good
GitHub’s Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program just wrapped up a second successful year, helping Community Managers gain experience in using open source for good.

The post Community managers in action: Leading a developer community for good appeared … ⌘ Read more

[LTH] [Bounty] [0.35 XMR] Silent.Link - Develop android widget for displaying of account balance
Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/179/

b4n6_b4n6 (Github) ⌘ Read more

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou and Kavitha Surana,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: As you know if you read SR regularly, I don’t care about political partisanship. SR is based on objectively verifiable social outcome data. What I care about is: does something foster and increase wellbeing at every level of the matrix of life, or does it decrease it? Here are facts about what has happened to the health of pregn … ⌘ Read more

Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies
Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: America’s already poor illness profit system is going to get much worse. I find it hard to believe that “king” Trump and the Republicans have such little concern for the people who voted them into office. It is going to be interesting, if tragic, to watch Trump voters face the reality of what they have done, as all the social systems that … ⌘ Read more

‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Social Security and Medicaid are about to be gutted. Millions will be affected by the loss of financial support and healthcare. I have told you over and over we are in the midst of a coup and one party – the Republicans – has collapsed and like docile hamsters are doing what they are told. The only thin … ⌘ Read more

I finally captured this lil guy last week and have been holding him the past several days. He has taken well to socialization as you can see. ⌘ Read more

Head of Social Security abruptly resigns after clash with Elon Musk over DOGE’s access to sensitive data
Stephen M. Lepore,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: The Musk gangsters of “king” Trump are looting your personal information and Michelle King, Acting Commissioner of Social Security had the integrity to resign from her post after she could not stop them.  And so the Trumpian coup continues. The American people creat … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Eve of Social Justice https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/17/social-justice.html #programming #project #devjournal

(#ymspbvq) The article discusses the challenges posed by linear social media feeds, which often lead to disengagement and difficulty in prioriti …
The article discusses the challenges posed by linear social media feeds, which often lead to disengagement and difficulty in prioritizing content from friends due to constant scrolling. The author proposes an alternative approach using a daily feed structure per day, which organizes posts by date, allowing for easier prioritization and reducing mindless scrolling.

Key Points:

1. **Line … ⌘ Read more

New York Gov. Refuses To Extradite Doctor Charged In Louisiana For Abortion Pill
Molly Bohannon ,  Reporter  -  Forbes

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend has taken on a new and very nasty aspect. Louisiana a state with a social outcome data profile like a third-world country is run by MAGAts. They are totally committed to assuring politicians not physicians control women’s lives and the state is trying to reach beyond its borders to try for murder … ⌘ Read more

[LTH] [Bounty] Haveno: Add support for DAI

DAI is useful asset to trade with XMR for access to many liquid and lending markets. CakeWallet supports DAI. This bounty would be complete upon the merge of a pull request, closing these issues.

Links:

• https://bounties.monero.social/posts/175/haveno-add-support-for-dai
  
• https://github.com/haveno-dex/listing/issues/21
  

bvcxza (Github) ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Ha,ha :-) I do not maintain anything! In the context of that post I was just an ordinary citizen. So the ‘we’ refers twice to “we, the citizens of the Baltic States”. (Classical case of social media ‘talk at cross purposes’. Now I understand, why they do this Introduction-thing over on mastodon ;-)

I adopted a very shy cat today who mostly hid at the shelter. Both the staff and I agreed that she’d probably need a lot of time to feel safe and start being social. This was her 5 hours after we got home. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Either I’m hanging around with my direct teammates socializing in person in a meeting room or some other workmates are making so much noise in the open-plan office that I cannot concentrate at all. In any case, completely unproductive. :-D Luckily, I very rarely have to go to the office.

Partiful Calls Apple a Copycat for New Invites App
The developers behind well-known event app and website Partiful today suggested that Apple was in violation of its own App Store guidelines for the release of the new Invites app.

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On social media, Partiful [shared a screenshot](https: … ⌘ Read more

‘It’s a coup’: Musk’s DOGE granted access to system that pays out Social Security
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams | AlterNet

_Stephan: What amounts to an oligarchical coup of the United States has just happened. The unelected billionaires who bought “emperor” Trump his office now have my, and probably your, complete personal financial data – anything any of us has ever filed with the federal government, as well as any military serv … ⌘ Read more

How many Bluey episodes is too many?
The social media ban will come as a relief for many parents. But what about babies, toddlers and small children, and their relationship with screens? ⌘ Read more

People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think Climate Change Is a Conspiracy: Study
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation has become one of the major trends shaping American culture. “king” Trump and the MAGAts in Congress are doing nothing to prepare the United States for climate change, and there … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Tor project twitter is compromised

Our X (Twitter) account has been compromised. We are working to regain access. Please do not trust or interact with any posts, DMs, or links from our account until further notice.

Link: https://mastodon.social/@torproject/113918614226738202

@monerobull:matrix.org ⌘ Read more

4 steps to building a natural language search tool
Empowering humanitarian action with open source: A natural language search tool for UN Resolutions.

The post 4 steps to building a natural language search tool appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Ten of the Most Outlandish Influencers on Social Media
As any social media user knows, influencers are everywhere. Usually, they pester us with adverts and monetized content. But some take a stranger approach. These bizarre influencers refuse to fit the usual mold. Instead, they have built a following from their unexpected, genuinely original ideas. They are the true originals of the social media world: […]

The post [Ten of the Most Outlandish Influencers on Social Media](http … ⌘ Read more

(#rqyaqiq) @lukasthiel.de@lukasthiel.de Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅
@lukasthiel.de @lukasthiel.de Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅 ⌘ Read more

**Online meetup Yarn.social call is on! Come join us!

=>**
Online meetup Yarn.social call is on! Come join us!

=> https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social ⌘ Read more

👋 Hello @emily0824@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @emily0824@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @empockelimi@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @empockelimi@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twtxt
  
• @prologic@twtxt.net ’s new EdgeGuard services 🤣
  
• What’s the weather like? 👍
  

Details:

• When: 25th Jan 2025 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
  
• Where: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

**👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twt …**
  👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twtxt

• @prologic ’s new EdgeGuard services 🤣

• What’s the weather like? 👍

Details:

• When: 25th Jan 2025 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)

• Where: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social ⌘ Read more

Simplifying my online presence further by removing my Known site. Goodbye social.johanbove.info - it was sometimes a little fun.

Apple Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Apple has updated the home page of its website to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. The page highlights some of King’s most impactful quotes, and invites people to explore his legacy further through the Apple Books and Apple News apps.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook also honored King in a social media post … ⌘ Read more

It’s not just social media giving violent white supremacists a pass
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gives us an accurate snapshot of the state of America as we prepare to inaugurate for President a man who could not get a job as a janitor if all they saw was his resumé. And his demand for loyalty over ethical behavior reminds me more of Hitler or Putin than any prior President. Get ready, I think we are in for something we h … ⌘ Read more

Would anyone object to the feeds.twtxt.net service having auth soon™ ? 🤔 I’m tired of the garbage feeds that it has accumulated over tie (spammers) and I want to a) clean it up b) lock it down somewhat.

The idea would be that you’d login with your Yarn.social account on some pod you control/operate or share with a nice person 🤣 – For those unfamiliar, this is called IndieAuth or IndieLogin. ALL Yarn.social pods are in fact valid (have been for years now) IndieAuth Providers. So I can just ust that. This also technically means you could login with your own domain too (more on that later…)

Would anyone object to the feeds.twtxt.net service having auth soon™ ? 🤔 I’m tired of the garbage feeds that it has accumulated over tie (_ …
Would anyone object to the feeds.twtxt.net service having auth soon™ ? 🤔 I’m tired of the garbage feeds that it has accumulated over tie ( spammers) and I want to a) clean it up b) lock it down somewhat.

The idea would be that you’d login with your Yarn.social account on some pod you control/operate or share with a nice person 🤣 – For those unfamiliar, this is called … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net IMHO: Most people like it the easy way: “Don’t make me think!”. If you do not pay money for a service, your data/content is the price to pay. Some handy mobile apps for the fediverse and the ongoing debate on social media services may get the people and their content out of the walled gardens of the 21st century.

Sanctioning of global white supremacist terrorism group rattles U.S. extremist members
Jordan Green ,  Investigative Reporter  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As Biden prepares to leave office his State Department has finally done something positive about White Supremacy terrorism, the biggest civil threat in the United States. So this is good news. It will be interesting to see how the billionaires who own the big social media platforms respond to … ⌘ Read more

‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back
Shanti Das,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here finally, although still too little too late, is some good news reporting something being done to clean up the fake porn and sex images and videos in the internet social media sewer.  I have had several readers who have been subjected to this write and tell me how it is essenti … ⌘ Read more

(#d2puecq) @andros How about #yarn.social 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev How about #yarn.social 🤣 ⌘ Read more

HUMANITY’S PRECOGNITITON: Climate Change and the Decline of Democracy
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Columnist  -  Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing

_Stephan: My life has been largely defined by three activities: My experimental research on the nature of consciousness, my research on the trends shaping human civilization, and my research on how to foster individual and social wellbeing. Over the past 60 years, I have written hundreds of peer-reviewed pa … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Since I live in Germany, I do believe the media here is generally reputable. It really depends where you live of course. Source I look at are Reuters, NPR, The Guardian, Die Zeit, NY Times, CNN, Tagesschau, Spiegel Online, RP Online (for local news), … I would never just trust what I see in my social media feeds.

Analyst hits MAGA falsehoods with brutal fact check over LA wildfires
Erik De La Garza,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you get your news about the L.A. fires from social media, much of what you are reading is crap. The lies about what caused the fires; and misinformation about how the local and state governments have failed to perform properly in dealing with the fires fill the social media sewer. From convicted felon Trump, and billionaire puppe … ⌘ Read more

(#6rsm6pq) @kat Haha, that’s why we came up with the name “yarn” and “yarn social”. A yarn is an Australian and Canadian (_and a few other place …
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Haha, that’s why we came up with the name “yarn” and “yarn social”. A yarn is an Australian and Canadian ( and a few other places) term that means “to have a friendly conversation”, “to have a chat”. Usually around a campfire 🔥 ⌘ Read more

Hmm, I just noticed that the feed template seems to be broken on your yarnd instance, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz. Looking at your raw feed file (and your mates as well), line 6 reads:

# This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod yarn running yarnd ERSION@OMMIT  go1.23.4
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like the first letters of the version and commit got somehow chopped off. I’ve no idea what happened here, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net knows something. :-? I’m not familiar with the templating, I just recall @xuu@txt.sour.is reporting in IRC the other day that he’s also having great fun with his custom preamble from time to time.

That “broken” comment doesn’t hurt anything, it’s still a proper comment and hence ignored by clients. It’s just odd, that’s all.

How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
Jody L. Herman, Andrew R. Flores, Kathryn K. O’Neill,  Senior Scholar of Public Policy | Distinguished Visiting Scholar | Policy Analyst  -  UCLA William Institute

_Stephan: There is so much misinformation on social media, and being spewed out of the mouths of MAGAt politicians at the federal and state level about how transgender men and women and children are taking over the Unite … ⌘ Read more

‘Marxist’ Agenda: Hegseth Says Gay Troops ‘Erode Standards’ in ‘Social Engineering’ Push
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Here is an example of the anti-LGBTQ  sickness I discussed in the previous article, and why I think this trend is so important. If Hegseth is confirmed for Secretary of Defense I predict that the structure and stability of the armed forces will be degraded. Hegseth is utterly unqualified f … ⌘ Read more

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
Meghan Bobrowsky,    -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: I have been telling you for several years now that social media is a flowing turd-filled sewer spewing hate, resentment and disinformation. And it is about to get much worse.  Mark Zuckerberg who put more than a million dollars into Trump’s pocket is joining his fellow billionaires, to end any attempt at fact-checking. Any resemblance … ⌘ Read more

Your favourite social media platform should not be where you get your facts from. You get jokes and share with your friends, but facts they ain’t. Get your world news from actual news sources instead.

10 of the Most Generation Defining Films
Since the early days of filmmaking, it seems every generation has certain movies that strongly reflect whatever sets them apart from their parents and grandparents. Whether it be fashion, social behavior, attitude toward life, or simply a refusal to conform in general, motion pictures that successfully capture what makes a generation unique often become nostalgic […]

The post [10 of the Most Generation Defining Films](https://listverse.com/2025/01/08/1 … ⌘ Read more

(#l6ze2pa) @suitechic Welcome to Yarn.social 👌👌
@suitechic @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Welcome to Yarn.social 👌👌 ⌘ Read more

Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more