@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What protocol do you use?
@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah @-mentioning@twtxt.net someone you don’t have a local alias for is broken somehow :( I haven’t looked into it yet…
(#5of5zfq) @xuu@xuu Yeah @-mentioning@-mentioning someone you don’t have a local alias for is broken somehow :( I haven’t looked into it y …
@xuu @txt.sour.is Yeah @-mentioning @twtxt.net someone you don’t have a local alias for is broken somehow :( I haven’t looked into it yet… ⌘ Read more
@xuu@txt.sour.is Seems to be fine here?
$ bat https://twtxt.net/twt/yfv5kfq | jq '.text'
"!<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw=="
@fastidious@tilde.town Haha 🤣
(#3wlkk3q) @fastidious@fastidious Haha 🤣
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@bender@twtxt.net Oooofff, I’m panting for breath when just thinking about that! I’ll immediately stop complaining. :-) I already forgot that a jacket over my jumper would have been nice. I’m happy to be cold.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I walked under 25°C during my lunch hour today, but with a sunshine that could fry an egg if dropped on the asphalt. I told a friend in Manila about it, and she told me that 25°C is Winter/Christmas temperatures for them. I felt cooler right away. :-)
@xuu@txt.sour.is like, badly broken. I mean, the guy doesn’t even use twtxt (it is more like an RSS feed for him). So, yeah, even if it was the correct mention it would never reach the intended ears. 😂
@fastidious@tilde.town I see you, and your useless twtxt. :-P
Just keeping this shell alive, and sending an useful twtxt in the process. :-P
@<@marado@ciberlandia.pt https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt> Hey! do you see this? 🧐
@<@marado@ciberlandia.pt > Hey! do you see this? 🧐
@<@marado@ciberlandia.pt https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt> Hey! do you see this? 🧐 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net yes, same here.
@bender@twtxt.net I don’t no. I mostly just use whole themes. And my facourite it AMOLED
(#kdd6jea) @bender@bender I don’t no. I mostly just use whole themes. And my facourite it AMOLED
@bender @twtxt.net I don’t no. I mostly just use whole themes. And my facourite it AMOLED ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I am just going over things. I don’t use it, do you?
@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
@javivf@adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh size of our community 👌
(#eetsbtq) @javivf@javivf Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of sp …
@javivf @adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh s … ⌘ Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me btw does twtxt dm and salty can be bridged together? iirc you planned this
New version release of twtxt-el!
- Fixed many bugs.
- New back buttons.
- Updated documentation.
I am currently fixing an important bug that break the timeline in some cases and I am working around direct messages.
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me @andros@twtxt.andros.dev I’m new in the neighborhood and I would like to ask you something :) When a new extension is published in twtxt.dev , is it open for discussion or ready for implementation?
@bender@twtxt.net Ahhh ha!!! 🤣 I’m too dumb to have thought of that 🤣
(#t5a3zyq) @bender@bender Ahhh ha!!! 🤣 I’m too dumb to have thought of that 🤣
@bender @twtxt.net Ahhh ha!!! 🤣 I’m too dumb to have thought of that 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net Do we still want this feature? 🧐
(#kdd6jea) @bender@bender Do we still want this feature? 🧐
@bender @twtxt.net Do we still want this feature? 🧐 ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net Would they even accept a server from me? 🧐😂
(#2hs3sua) @bender@bender Would they even accept a server from me? 🧐😂
@bender @twtxt.net Would they even accept a server from me? 🧐😂 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net so, where is the irc.mills.io leaf, connecting to Libera? 🤭
The tiny avatars, as expected (because they showed normal to you too @prologic@twtxt.net), do not show under macOS’s Safari, but they do show on iOS’s Safari. It truly is a puzzle.
(#2zhuzoa) @eapl.me@eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on …
@eapl.me @eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on the ciphertext, which you really want to avoid if you can. If you have a read of the Salty.im Spec you’ll note we went to great lengths to protect the user’s … ⌘ Read more
it should be
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
my main itch with the DMs extensions is that these messages are intended to be private, not public information. That’s why other extensions make sense, but DMs are another kind of feature.
TwiXter, Mastodon, FB and some other services usually hide the DMs in another section, so they are not mixed with the public timeline.
I find the DM topic interesting, I even made an indie experiment for a centralized messaging system here https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/owl.
Although, as I’ve said a few times here, I’m not particularly interested in supporting it on microblogging, as I don’t use it that much. In the rare case I’ve used them, I don’t have to manage public and private keys, and finally none of my acquaintances use encrypted email.
Nothing personal against anyone, and although I like to debate and even fight, it’s not the case here. This proposal is the only one allowing DMs on twtxt, and if the community wants it, I’ll support it, with my personal input, of course.
A good approach I could find with a good compromise between compatibility with current clients and keeping these messages private is ‘hiding’ the DMs in comments. For example:
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
@bender@twtxt.net ping! 🏓
@bender@twtxt.net ping! 🏓
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@hacker-news@feeds.twtxt.net I like this 👌
(#xpgdzja) @hacker-news@hacker-news I like this 👌
@hacker-news @feeds.twtxt.net I like this 👌 ⌘ Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Nice! 😊
(#su4x2oa) @andros@andros Nice! 😊
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Nice! 😊 ⌘ Read more
It’s ready 🥳! https://dm-echo.andros.dev/
An example: https://dm-echo.andros.dev/generate/?url=https://twtxt.andros.dev/
#twtxt
@bender@twtxt.net Close enough 🤣
(#of7imuq) @bender@bender Close enough 🤣
@bender @twtxt.net Close enough 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net earliest I have of you:

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev No worries! 😉
(#q47vega) @andros@andros No worries! 😉
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev No worries! 😉 ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net Sadly my earlier Twt back in ~2020 is now gone from at least this pod’s cache 🤣 – It might still exist in other pods though? 🤔 It does! https://txt.sour.is/twt/o6dsrga
(#pnkf5rq) @bender@bender Sadly my earlier Twt back in ~2020 is now gone from at least this pod’s cache 🤣 – It might still exist in other …
@bender @twtxt.net Sadly my earlier Twt back in ~2020 is now gone from at least this pod’s cache 🤣 – It might still exist in other pods though? 🤔 It does! https://txt.sour.is/twt/o6dsrga ⌘ Read more
(#2zhuzoa) I think I would encourage anyone in this community is to care less about supporting “legacy clients” and focus more on value-add whil …
I think I would encourage anyone in this community is to care less about supporting “legacy clients” and focus more on value-add whilst balancing the burden of client authors – which have very precious little “spare time” 🤣 ⌘ Read more
My welcome message, and first recorded mention (that I could find):

(#2zhuzoa) I do think integrating things like Salty.im might actually be a good idea. I can also see a future where we integrate other thing …
I do think integrating things like Salty.im might actually be a good idea. I can also see a future where we integrate other things like todo.txt and calendar.txt. I’d even love to see decentralised forms of “plain text” voting too. ⌘ 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).
(#2zhuzoa) @andros@andros I don’t see any “fighting” here. This is just good experimentation. Unfortunately there hasn’t really been e …
@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 … ⌘ Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev how often do you send a private message on the Fediverse? How often do you send PGP/SMIME encrypted emails? Are there other tools that are more suitable for the task? If implementing direct/private messages on twtxt scratches an itch (you know, that hobbyist itch we all get from time to time), then don’t give up so easily. Worse comes to worse, and your feed becomes too noisy, people can simply unfollow/mute.
I really don’t care about direct messages here, but I might be on that bottom 1%!
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev i think salty.im integration would be great but i still don’t know how it possible
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Congratulations!!! Happy birtwt! 🥳
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I think opening another file is a bad idea because it adds complexity to the clients, breaks the single feed and I think keeping legacy clients will be more complex to add new features in the future. A modern approach is important.
I’ll be honest, I’m a bit tired of the fight around the direct message. Perhaps, we can remove it as an extension and use the alternative @prologic@twtxt.net . My suggestion apparently doesn’t like to the community. I have no problem with remove it.
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t understand. I checked the feed, the twtxt file, and there are no duplicate links. I will follow the next articles 👁️👁️. Thank you!
(#zwr3hiq)
https://salty.im/ ⌘ Read more
SqliteCache backend I'm working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache (which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? 🤔
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club No worries! 👌
(#axtyevq) @eldersnake@eldersnake No worries! 👌
@eldersnake @we.loveprivacy.club No worries! 👌 ⌘ Read more
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com tempus fugit when you are having fun! Happy 1st Twtxtversary!
dm-only.txt feeds. 😂
@bender@twtxt.net YES PLEASE!
Happy 1st Twtxt~iversary to me … I guess. It feels like it was 5 years since my first twt 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net good top of the morning to ya! It is still yesterday here. 🤪
I think that having a dm-only.txt, twtxt-dm.txt or any other name for an alternative file is the most sensible approach. The name could be specified in the metadata.
Morning y’all 👋
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Ahh I see 👌
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, it is a security hole. All dm-echo messages are readable. I intend it to be a debugging tool. Maybe I can include a warning message. If many of you see that it is a serious problem, I can remove the links.
**(#zwr3hiq) @andros@andros Ahh I see 👌
@prologic@prologic Yes, it is a security hole. All dm-echo messages are readable. I inten …**
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Ahh I see 👌@prologic @twtxt.net Yes, it is a security hole. All dm-echo messages are readable. I intend it to be a debugging tool. Maybe I can include a warning message. If many of you see that it is a serious problem, I can remove the links. ⌘ Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev maybe create a separate, completely distinct feed for DM? That way, clients do not need to do anything, only those wanted to “talk in private” follow themselves, using their very special dm-only.txt feeds. 😂
@movq@www.uninformativ.de For sure, an app for that is very silly. I’ve just seen signs in participating shops in my town. That’s how I know of this concept.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org My goodness, a toilet app. Was es nich’ alles gibt. 🥴
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev your feed is spitting out dupes? 🧐 
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev your feed is spitting out dupes? 🧐
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev your feed is spitting out dupes? 🧐
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I honestly think IRC is better anyway 🤣
(#mdylu4a) @andros@andros I honestly think IRC is better anyway 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev I honestly think IRC is better anyway 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de You just have to dress yourself up in a dog custume to pee on a tree, fence post or house wall. :-P
Depending on the hour, town halls and also graveyards are typically good options for public toilets. But yeah, you have to find them first. And then, there might be the “Nette Toilette”: https://www.die-nette-toilette.de/ (Unfortunately, you can’t see on the website which towns and cities participate in that concept. :-()
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Heck yeah, that’s an awesome shot!
@klaxzy@klaxzy.net … that’s too much.
(#i2dwufa) @movq@movq Damn that’s a sexy pidgeon 🤣
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Damn that’s a sexy pidgeon 🤣 ⌘ Read more
(#6neb2da) @bender@bender Haha 😆
@bender @twtxt.net Haha 😆 ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net I think mentions are fixed 🤣
@bender@twtxt.net I think mentions are fixed 🤣
@bender @twtxt.net I think mentions are fixed 🤣 ⌘ Read more
Oh hello @yarn_police@twtxt.net 🚨
Oh hello @yarn_police@yarn_police 🚨
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@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Why would you want that lol 😂
(#mukm4qq) @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Why would you want that lol 😂
@doesnm.p.psf.lt @doesnm.p.psf.lt Why would you want that lol 😂 ⌘ Read more
(#mz7r5yq) This is nuts. Lemme eat dinner first (pizza on the way!) and I’ll fix this utter nonsense 🤣
This is nuts. Lemme eat dinner first ( pizza on the way!) and I’ll fix this utter nonsense 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@abucci@anthony.buc.ciyarn_police@twtxt.net! Help!
@abucci@anthony.buc.cidoesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt yes, I was aware of that.
@bender@twtxt.net IRC man 🤣