@prologic@twtxt.net nooo post away!!!

@prologic@twtxt.net fuck yeah!!!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz https://memoria.sayitditto.net/user/andjuly/

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz anyway when i get the memory stick i will record something silly and exclusive for yarn friends i can’t wait <3

@prologic@twtxt.net EVEN COOLER

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i also like the separation inherent with using dedicated devices. like i have a DAP, a fiio X1 ii from 2019, and it’s still going strong. it’s perfect for on the go music listening and i never have to worry about like going somewhere with no reception and the music drops out. it’s all local AND the battery lasts longer because i’m not using wi-fi or bluetooth or data. also i can directly access the file system and just add files anytime. this goes for my point & shoot and other devices too. i love this shit i’m such a nerd

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i think what i love about “retro” (relative to me because i was born 2004) is that it has friction but in a different way than modern tech does. sure there’s friction with getting a video from your phone to a computer unless you’re a nerd like me with android and syncthing. but not only is that something that could be but isn’t easier, it’s just… it makes sense for a camcorder from ~2009 to have the kind of friction it does

@prologic@twtxt.net this is epic… you’ve made a great platform!!! screw big tech we got literal threads here. X, The Everything App, wishes it had literal yarn threads smh my head. also twtxt is so cool like i love that yarn is a frontend for it but also its own thing. all plaintext… coolest shit ever

@prologic@twtxt.net oooh i should’ve figured yeah!!! epic…

@prologic@twtxt.net 9am wow!!! 6pm here now :P

@prologic@twtxt.net oh yeah i had to do a custom caddy build for that once but then i reverted because i didn’t need it anymore (well i kinda do but for now i’m just manually doing it instead of wildcard certs/TLS on demand i’m lazy af). otherwise i love caddy

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev What do you mean by API? yarnd (which powers Yarn.social pods like twtxt.net) does have an API, however that API is designed for clients to interact with the pod and the user’s account and feed. e.g: there is a command-line client called yarnc and I used to maintain a mobile native app (using Flutter).

What use-case did you have in mind?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net twtxt-el ?

it’s epic that twtxt slash yarn doesn’t have reposts or likes. it’s just chill. replies and posting is all a site needs

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org if i ever get to it i will absolutely post tux-in-progress pics!!! just a creature….

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’ve really wanted to make one of those sites you can curl that’s terminal friendly but looks different on the browser like how does wttr.in do it… magic

good morning new yarn social/twtxt friends (it is literally 5:30pm where i am i woke up at 3pm and i am still drinking coffee)

@prologic@twtxt.net YAYYY fuck cloudflare!!! caddy+wireguard amazing combo

@prologic@twtxt.net Is it possible to interact with twtxt.net from outside? For example, an search API

@bender@twtxt.net Sorry if I don’t reply to you. I don’t have any mention notification system… at the moment… Thanks for the suggestion and for fix the error 😄

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ein Prachtstück hast du dir da gebaut! Bei mir werden aus den Stöckern Rankhilfen, Nivellierunterlagen, Insektenhotels, Untersetzer und und und. Im Baumarkt zahlt man dafür bis zu 2€, pah! :)

Once again I glimpsed at my twtxt feed access log. Now I’m wondering: is there a twtxt client named xt out there? Does anyone know? I did not find anything for “xt/0.0.1”.

@prologic@twtxt.net omg i keep hearing so much good about HTMX i really gotta try it!

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah and far lighter than the likes of react! it kicks ass

@prologic@twtxt.net totally understandable! i used the web app from my phone and it worked perfectly 🫶 i can’t imagine the headaches that maintaining apps brings…

@prologic@twtxt.net hopefully!!!

@prologic@twtxt.net oh i meant to hit reply but i forgot lol

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz this is that telnet zine cms by the way, it’s epic https://github.com/caraesten/dial_a_zine

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org these are beautiful!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz just spent like an hour playing with this and adding newjeans ASCII art this is the cutest shit ever

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz and this is how superlove got made

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i was adding catppuccin themes everywhere possible last night right but now my desktop wallpaper & conky widget, which are just black & white, don’t really match, so i need something dark purple tinged! i’ll make a quick edit later

thank you for building such a wonderful platform! i discovered it from messing with base twtxt and then went ‘hm i’ve self hosted fedi instances and a bsky PDS i can do this too’ and so i did LOL!

@prologic@twtxt.net :D!

Shi… I forgot to pull my twtxt file before twtin’ … let me see if I can recover them lost timeline twts.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thank you 🙏 wish you all the best! 🙌

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyzHello 👋 Welcome!

@prologic@twtxt.net this is so fucking real i’m so sick of AI/LLM crap

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz oh shit that worked

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz this is lonely!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz god damn it

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz god damn it why aren’t icons working

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz testttt

@news@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz fuck

Good riddance 2024…
2025, be good or else.

Happy new year Twtxt people. I’m grateful for getting to meet/talk to you all, It certainly was the best thing to have happened to me in this “2024” chapter of my life.

@prologic@twtxt.net Do you have any data about the #twtxt health? How many people are currently using twtxt?

I found 2 active Registries: tilde.instite and twtxt.envs.net . I think that is missing a repository or system for them to find each other. It is easy to share registry users. Your work is awesome! Maybe you are supporting twtxt with the pod and software around them. I am very busy with the Emacs client, but I like to work creating my own version of Registry using Django.

Lol, seems yarn do not display metadata on @terron@duque-terron.cat

Insert RSS url to on https://feeds.twtxt.net in textbox

How can I add feeds to https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds ? It this possible?

My cat, @terron@duque-terron.cat has his own twtxt account. Would you follow him? #catsoftwtxt

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net LOL. Crypto rubbish backed? 🤦‍♂️

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I guess it worked 🤣

Test Mention for Goryon! @doesnm@demo.yarn.social

@emmanuel@wald.ovh Btw I already figured out why accessing your web server is slow:

$ host wald.ovh
wald.ovh has address 86.243.228.45
wald.ovh has address 90.19.202.229

wald.ovh has 2 IPv4 addresses, one of which is dead and doesn’t respond.. That’s why accessing your website is so slow as depending on client and browser behaviors one of two things may happen 1) a random IP is chosen and ½ the time the wrong one is picked or 2) both are tried in some random order and ½ the time its slow because the broken one is picked.

If you don’t know what 86.243.228.45 is, or it’s a dead backup server or something, I’d suggest you remove this from the domain record.

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s hosted at home on an computer I didn’t use anymore. It worked well for a few months, and since maybe the beginning of December, it begun to be very slow. But like I said, I have no time for that now, but if I have questions when I’ll look, I’ll think of you 😅 (but I was thinking about installing a new OS before these problems, I may just do that).

@emmanuel@wald.ovh oh! Nice! You’ve now got a nice avatar 👌

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Why are they doing that?

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Reminds me of: https://img.ifunny.co/images/d07b9a2014e3b3901abe5f4ab22cc2b89a0308de8a21d868d2022dac7bb0280d_1.jpg :-D

python cgi script which handles micropub and writes content to twtxt file. I was want micropub+microsub for twtverse but seems i burned (due choice wrong stack?): https://privatebin.net/?0b598b91ac186855#BfRKjLUQz5KUFJNekJBb5V2qvtEe8xQN8nenYbkez2XR

@bender@twtxt.net Bahahaha in hindsight I got rid of that 🤣 Just silly nonsense, just one of those things when you create an account on yet-another silly centralized platform(s) and go “fuck” someone’s already taken the username I want 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net “therealprologic”? Really? 🤦‍♂️😅

hmm any ideas how to fix this case when there is no nick and it on a shared tilde hosting? http://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://tilde.club/~deepend/twtxt.txt

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt How did you post from IndiePass? Did you add support for twtxt or use some kind of bridge?

I’ve implemented Use only nick as handle if nick and domain is the same · sorenpeter/timeline@8c12444

See it live at:

• nick = domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://eapl.me/tw.txt
  
• nick ≠ domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
  
• no nick, use domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://akkartik.name/twtxt.txt
  

I’m not sure I like the leading @ thou…

What should the advantage be to nick = _compared to just not defining a nick and let the client use the domain as the handle?

What is not intuitive is that you put something in the nick field that is not to be taken literary. The special meaning of _ is only clean if you read the documentation, compared to having something in nick that makes sense in the current context of the twtxt.txt.

No, i mean just _. If my nick = _ and my twtxt is located at https://doesnm.cc/twtxt.txt then just display me as @doesnm.cc. Why it’s not intuitive?

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt So the user should then set nick = _@domain.tld in the twtxt.txt?

It seems more intuitive and userfriendly to just use: nick = domain.tld and have then convention for clients to render the handle as @domain.tld instead of @domain.tld@domain.tld

For a feed with no nick defined (eg. https://akkartik.name/twtxt.txt) it will also be simpler and make more sense to just use the domain as the nick and render it as @domain.tld

Are we talking about profile view heading, heading of posts or inline mentions?

Image

and going back to a handle you could input in your client to look for the user/file, like @nick@domain.tls I think Webfinger is the way to go. It has enough information to know where to find that nick’s URL.

@prologic@twtxt.net does that webfinger fork made by darch work OK with yarn as it is now? (I’ve never used it, so I’m researching about it)
https://darch.dk/.well-known/webfinger/

@eapl.me@eapl.me A way to have a more bluesky’ish handles in twtxt could be to take inspiration from Bridgy Fed and say: If NICK = DOMAIN then only show @DOMAIN
So instead of @eapl.me@eapl.me it will just be @eapl.me

And it event seem that it will not break webfinger lookup: https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=%40darch.dk (at least not for how I’ve implemented webfinger on my sever for a single user;)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Opps! My bad, I had a BotFilter activated which lead you to a 403. Fixed!

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net !

Is there any rule or information about images in the twtxt specification?

Thanks @bender@twtxt.net for the feedback. I fixed and expanded the article. I’m sorry for my poor interaction. Furthermore, I’m reading and writing while programming a client in Emacs.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de my util-linux 2.40.2 version of cal seems to do week 53.

@bender@twtxt.net im a fisherman.

@prologic@twtxt.net, do you use zsh on macOS, or do you change it to, say, bash?

I would like to share my lastest article about #twtxt on my blog: https://programadorwebvalencia.com/twtxt-la-red-social-en-texto-plano-descentralizada-y-minimalista/ . Attention! It is a Spanish

My 400th Twtxt Post will be about you: wishing you, reader of my Twtxt feed, all the best for the coming year and most of all love, health, and that your projects and work may contribute to the greater good of all mankind. I will be taking a social-media break for a couple of weeks to enjoy this special time with my family. I hope you will be able to do this with your family and friends too.

Ich habe mir einen twtxt-Log-Parser geschrieben, der mich per Mail informiert, wenn jemand “neues” auf meinen Feed zugreift. Mal gucken, wie es läuft.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Looks fun. Also kind of looks like APL and Forth had a baby on Jupyter.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Hello!

@kh1b@kh1b.org Welcome to twtxt!

Moin @arne@uplegger.eu, herzlich willkommen! Ich bin gerade auf https://uplegger.eu/blog/popelfinger gestoßen und war sofort sehr begeistert. :-D Mal sehen, ob ich die anderen an einem der Feiertage davon überzeugt bekomme, das mal auszuprobieren. :-)

I’ve started a draft over at: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/src/branch/main/exts/webfinger.md

@prologic@twtxt.net maybe you meant to specify twtxt as a type similar to ActivityPub’s application/activity+json in https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=sorenpeter@norrebro.space

    {
      "rel": "self",
      "type": "application/activity+json",
      "href": "https://norrebro.space/users/sorenpeter"
    },

Then it would also make sense to define a Link Relations but should that then link to something like https://twtxt.dev/webfinger.html where we can describe the spec?

@prologic@twtxt.net Well I just mirrored yarnd’s JSON in my webfinger endpoint and lookup, so not much else to do for standardization.

And for people who don’t like PHP you can always just go with Added WebFinger support to my email address using one rewrite rule and one static file. or simply putting a static JSON in place for .well-know/webfinger

@movq@www.uninformativ.de omg its like haskell but with more monads.

Hi Twtxt

@prologic@twtxt.net optional features don’t gain adoption from non-technical users. This needs to be built in.

@eapl.me@eapl.me why not https://domain.com/.well-known/twtxt/:domain/:user ?

the business card test is this can you write it on your business card and have someone you give it to be able to figure it out without added context?

• phone number: yes because everyone knows what a phone number is.
  
• email address: yes, everyone knows an email and their aol or prodigy will let them email.
  
• twitter/x/insta/pintrest handle: no, whats a twitter? do i need to sign up?
  
• domain name: yes its simple and you just type it in a browser right?
  
• twtxt url: kinda? its a bit long and is that a forward slash? or a backward slash?

@xuu@txt.sour.is is there anything stopping in clients from supporting this as an optional feature?

since twtxt is based on text files, I think you can consider @domain.tld as an alias of http://domain.com/twtxt.txt (or https://domain.com/tw.txt, among other combinations in the wild).

Or perhaps you can use DNS TXT records?
Although I think that’s a bit more complicated for some environments and users, I’d go with looking for a default /tw*.txt

One benefit with bluesky is your username is also a website. And not a clunky URL with slashes and such. I wish twtxt adopted that. I have advocated for webfinger to for twtxt to let us do something like it with usernames. Nostr has something like it

By default the bsky.social urls all redirect to their feeds like: hmpxvt.bsky.social
Many custom urls will redirect to some kind of linktree or just their feed cwebonline.com or la.bonne.petite.sour.is or if you are a major outlet just to your web presence like https://theonion.com‬ or https://netflix.com

Its just good SEO practice

Do all nostr addresses take you to the person if typed into a browser? That is the secret sauce.
No having to go to some random page first. no accounts. no apps to install. just direct to the person.

Anyone started seeing this from Slashdot? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net how does one signs up? I am sure you haven’t advertised the service yet, right?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where in firefox can I set custom CSS?

Are posts here still going to twtxt?

haha, that’s gold xD.

#randomMemory I remember when I was starting to code, like 30 years ago, not understanding why my Basic file didn’t run when I renamed it to .exe

And nowadays, I’ve seen a few Go apps in a single executable, so twtxt.exe could be a thing, he!