@bender@twtxt.net I try to avoid editing. I guess I would write 5/4, 6/4, etc, and hopefully my audience would be sympathetic to my failing.

Anyway, I don’t think my eccentric decision to number my twts in the style of other social media platforms is the only context where someone might write ¼ not meaning a quarter. E.g. January 4, to Americans.

I’m happy to keep overthinking this for as long as you are :-P

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net I’m not exactly asking yarnd to change. If you are okay with the way it displayed my twts, then by all means, leave it as is. I hope you won’t mind if I continue to write things like 1/4 to mean “first out of four”.

What has text/markdown got to do with this? I don’t think Markdown says anything about replacing 1/4 with ¼, or other similar transformations. It’s not needed, because ¼ is already a unicode character that can simply be directly inserted into the text file.

What’s wrong with my original suggestion of doing the transformation before the text hits the twtxt.txt file? @prologic@twtxt.net, I think it would achieve what you are trying to achieve with this content-type thing: if someone writes 1/4 on a yarnd instance or any other client that wants to do this, it would get transformed, and other clients simply wouldn’t do the transformation. Every client that supports displaying unicode characters, including Jenny, would then display ¼ as ¼.

Alternatively, if you prefer yarnd to pretty-print all twts nicely, even ones from simpler clients, that’s fine too and you don’t need to change anything. My 1/4 -> ¼ thing is nothing more than a minor irritation which probably isn’t worth overthinking.

So I am really curious, now that I am building upon @sorenpeter@darch.dk’s Timeline app, how other users write/add their twtxt, and how you follow conversations. Comment svp!

Spent some time cleaning up my AoC code to get ready for December 1st. Anyone else doing it this year? @prologic@twtxt.net we have to setup a new team each year?

Spent some time cleaning up my AoC code to get ready for December 1st. Anyone else doing it this year? @prologic@twtxt.net we have to setup a new team each year?

(#s7t3gya) @bender@bender The only changes I can foresee are really to yarnd. As no other client I’m aware of really cares aall that much. …
@bender The only changes I can foresee are really to yarnd. As no other client I’m aware of really cares aall that much. 🤣 It’s only in an attempt to solve this. No I’m not sure about this 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#lci25ga) @asquare No worries 😌
@asquare @asquare.srht.site No worries 😌 ⌘ Read more

(#lci25ga) @asquare I’m not really sure I understand sorry. Can you explain it like I’m 5? 😅
@asquare @asquare.srht.site I’m not really sure I understand sorry. Can you explain it like I’m 5? 😅 ⌘ Read more

👋 PR to propose Feed Format Extension – Request for comment 🙏

👋 PR to propose Feed Format Extension – Request for comment 🙏
👋 PR to propose Feed Format Extension – Request for comment 🙏 ⌘ Read more

(#b795meh) @asquare No it will not, because it needs to find the root twt. Doing so with a O(1) time complexity is far better than the alternati …
@asquare @asquare.srht.site No it will not, because it needs to find the root twt. Doing so with a O(1) time complexity is far better than the alternative. ⌘ Read more

(#lci25ga) @asquare Why “frightening”? And what does “protocol ossification” mean? Hmm 🧐
@asquare @asquare.srht.site Why “frightening”? And what does “protocol ossification” mean? Hmm 🧐 ⌘ Read more

(#ya6rsdq) @lyse Cool! Literally 🥶 When do you expect leaves to be falling from trees? 🤔
@lyse @lyse.isobeef.org Cool! Literally 🥶 When do you expect leaves to be falling from trees? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#gctrz4q) I think realistically the only way to resolve this is to formally support and define a specification for feed formats. The availabl …
I think realistically the only way to resolve this is to formally support and define a specification for feed formats. The available mime types lists two formats that I think are important here. text/plain and text/markdown. I believe a specification that defines and formalizes this so that a feed author can state in their feed that their feed is primar … ⌘ Read more

(#6efpbga) @aelaraji No need to be sorry 🤗
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com No need to be sorry 🤗 ⌘ Read more

(#qzakaea) @slashdot Really?! And we expected what to happen exactly? 🤔
@slashdot @feeds.twtxt.net Really?! And we expected what to happen exactly? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#2j6lbja) @thecanine@thecanine this is really fucked up! Do you have other examples? 🤔
@thecanine this is really fucked up! Do you have other examples? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#tlnnzsq) @stigatle No worries 🤗 Last Sat of every month 🤞
@stigatle @yarn.stigatle.no No worries 🤗 Last Sat of every month 🤞 ⌘ Read more

(#jb7bluq) @stigatle This seems cool hmmm 🧐
@stigatle @yarn.stigatle.no This seems cool hmmm 🧐 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m not a yarnd user, so it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me, but FWIW I’m not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd’s quirks.

I wonder if this kind of postprocessing would fit better between composing (via yarnd’s UI) and publishing. So, if a yarnd user types ¼, it could get changed to ¼ in the twtxt.txt file for everyone to see, not just people reading through yarnd. But when I type ¼, meaning first out of four, as a non-yarnd user, the meaning wouldn’t get corrupted. I can always type ¼ directly if that’s what I really intend.

(This twt might be easier to understand if you read it without any transformations :-P)

Anyway, again, I’m not a yarnd user, so do what you will, just know you might not be seeing exactly what I meant.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ll try and join next time :) I did not see your reply until now.

(#japcjha) @bender@bender Dam that’s small 🤣 Nice! 👍
@bender Dam that’s small 🤣 Nice! 👍 ⌘ Read more

(#ntz4ata) Exactly! But you still have to sign up to “their” platform. da fuq?! I smell something fishy here 🤣
Exactly! But you still have to sign up to “their” platform. da fuq?! I smell something fishy here 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#ntz4ata) But you have to sign-up though? wut?! 😟
But you have to sign-up though? wut?! 😟 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah short Nick is going to be unique enough. There is always olong Nick that adds the domain for differentiation.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah short Nick is going to be unique enough. There is always olong Nick that adds the domain for differentiation.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I run Weechat headless on a VM and mostly connect via mobile or dwsktop. I use the android client or gliwing bear. Work blocks all comms on their always on MitM VPN so I cant in office anymore. So I just use mobile.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I run Weechat headless on a VM and mostly connect via mobile or dwsktop. I use the android client or gliwing bear. Work blocks all comms on their always on MitM VPN so I cant in office anymore. So I just use mobile.

(#id5gbyq) @doesnm I happy to be very good friends with the founder of IRCCloud who happens to be also my namesakes 😅
@doesnm @doesnm.p.psf.lt I happy to be very good friends with the founder of IRCCloud who happens to be also my namesakes 😅 ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Ugh, do we really need more brainrot, even if it is more open? 😅

(#p2jw2xq) @bender@bender Yeah I mostly read IRC backlogs on mobile, very rarely talk per se 😅
@bender Yeah I mostly read IRC backlogs on mobile, very rarely talk per se 😅 ⌘ Read more

(#frjxwvq) Yeah 😔
Yeah 😔 ⌘ Read more

(#p2jw2xq) @sorenpeter@sorenpeter I use ITCCloud, am always online via my Desktop and ITC from the mobile app.
@sorenpeter @darch.dk@darch.dk I use ITCCloud, am always online via my Desktop and ITC from the mobile app. ⌘ Read more

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl Yes 🤞

(#i233nxq) @Codebuzz Yes 🤞
@Codebuzz @www.codebuzz.nl Yes 🤞 ⌘ Read more

(#ovlagaa) @bender@bender I tend to agree 👍
@bender I tend to agree 👍 ⌘ Read more

Neycer Robalino vs Hayden Green – Brisbane Flexi Season (Week 3) Div 1 Final - YouTube This is Neycer one of our coaches at the table-tenn …
Neycer Robalino vs Hayden Green – Brisbane Flexi Season (Week 3) Div 1 Final - YouTube

This is Neycer one of our coaches at the table-tennis club 🏓 that I play at vs. Hayden a top-rated QLD player ( well not anymore 🤣). What a match! 😱 Go #Brisbane [#Table-Tennis](https://twtxt.net/search?q=tags:Table … ⌘ Read more

(#6efpbga) @aelaraji@aelaraji To be honest I thought the same too, I felt as though you were being a bit too harsh on yourself 😅 Chill �� …
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com To be honest I thought the same too, I felt as though you were being a bit too harsh on yourself 😅 Chill 🤗 ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net True, I’m just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣

(#slyb5qq) @bender@bender True, I’m just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wante …
@bender @twtxt.net True, I’m just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#slyb5qq) I think this works 1/4
I think this works 1/4 ⌘ Read more

(#frjxwvq) @Codebuzz I agree. At the end of the day it’s just a text file served by some means, we should get more upset by crawlers that don’t …
@Codebuzz @www.codebuzz.nl I agree. At the end of the day it’s just a text file served by some means, we should get more upset by crawlers that don’t respect our robots.tzt rules 🤣 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I wrote ¼ (one slash four) by which I meant “the first out of four”. twtxt.net is showing it as ¼, a single character that IMO doesn’t have that same meaning (it means 0.25). Similarly, ¾ got replaced with ¾ in another twt. It’s not a big deal. It just looks a little wrong, especially beside the 2/4 and 4/4 in my other two twts.

(#cs3mjwa) Hah 🤣
Hah 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#i233nxq) @movq Cool 👌
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Cool 👌 ⌘ Read more

(#4gf43pq) @lyse@lyse Ahh thanks! 🙏
@lyse @lyse.isobeef.org Ahh thanks! 🙏 ⌘ Read more

(#pzfxr6q) @aelaraji@aelaraji It even shows up here too 😅 44 feeds you follow, nice 👍
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com It even shows up here too 😅 44 feeds you follow, nice 👍 ⌘ Read more

(#4gf43pq) @movq I’ll merge it then 👌
@movq @www.uninformativ.de I’ll merge it then 👌 ⌘ Read more

👋 FYI: I’ve put in place 301 Moved Permanently redirect(s) for https://dev.twtxt.net/ and all relevant pages to the new domain https://twtxt.dev 👌

**👋 FYI: I’ve put in place 301 Moved Permanently redirect(s) for and all relevant pages to the new domain 👌**
👋 FYI: I’ve put in place 301 Moved Permanently redirect(s) for https://dev.twtxt.net/ and all relevant pages to the new domain https://twtxt.dev 👌 ⌘ Read more

(#v2gjwxq) @bender@bender Right, so a “Cool Domain” is just a URI in your Domain space that you control and maintain stability. As you contro …
@bender Right, so a “Cool Domain” is just a URI in your Domain space that you control and maintain stability. As you control the Domain Space, you can keep URI(s) stable even in the face of change. Okay.

But what I don’t get is @asquare ’s comment:

Imposing a norm that you can’t just use any ol’ url, looking down on people

@asquare Who’s imposing this a … ⌘ Read more

(#v2gjwxq) @asquare What do you mean by “Cool URLs”?
@asquare @asquare.srht.site What do you mean by “Cool URLs”? ⌘ Read more

(#cs3mjwa) Yup that’s right.
Yup that’s right. ⌘ Read more

(#slyb5qq) @falsifian How so? 🤔
@falsifian @www.falsifian.org How so? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net One could argue twtxt.net’s display formatting is a little over-eager here.

(#pqhbula) @Codebuzz I really like this idea of just using the Feed’s # nick as a sort of “identifier”. This gets us out of this mess of when …
@Codebuzz @www.codebuzz.nl I really like this idea of just using the Feed’s # nick as a sort of “identifier”. This gets us out of this mess of when feeds move locations or authors decide to host on 3 or 4 different protocols 🤣 Downside? Something picks the same nick? ( _they’ll still hash differently, so th … ⌘ Read more

👋 PR to Update Metadata ext to clarify avatar field cc @lyse @movq @sorenpeter and @Codebuzz
👋 PR to Update Metadata ext to clarify avatar field cc @lyse @lyse.isobeef.org @movq @www.uninformativ.de @sorenpeter @darch.dk and [@Codebuzz _@www.co … ⌘ Read more

(#inrzw7a) @cuaxolotl not sure that really applies strictly in a purely decentakised system? 🤔
@cuaxolotl @sunshinegardens.org not sure that really applies strictly in a purely decentakised system? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

**The call is on! Come join us!

**
The call is on! Come join us!

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

(#tlnnzsq) @stigatle Cominf yo yhe call? 🤔🤗
@stigatle @yarn.stigatle.no Cominf yo yhe call? 🤔🤗 ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @xuu Thanks!
@xuu @txt.sour.is Thanks! ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net that should be right

@prologic@twtxt.net that should be right

(#tb4qdaq) @rodolpho Hey 👋
@rodolpho @twtxt.rodolpho.onoeck.com.br Hey 👋 ⌘ Read more

**(#rjapt4a) I think it uses the first # url too. See here and here – @xuu@xuu Can you confirm this to be the case? 🙏 GetN("url", ...** I _think_ it uses the first# urltoo. See [here](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/ast.go#L1062-L1074) and [here](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/lextwt.go#L88-L95) – [@xuu _@txt.sour.is_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt&nick=xuu) Can you confirm this to be the case? 🙏GetN(“url”, 0)will return the fir ... ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/5ieybsq)

(#u2uoxea) @doesnm@doesnm No I’m just frustrated 🤗
@doesnm @doesnm.p.psf.lt No I’m just frustrated 🤗 ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @movq@movq I will check when I get home 😅
@movq @www.uninformativ.de I will check when I get home 😅 ⌘ Read more

That’s very sad… Btw twtxt is more hardly to spam because of bad discovery. So you can only spam to your followers. Did you really want abandon best method of microblogging?

(#rvwuo4q) @gallowsgryph@gallowsgryph Very nice 👌
@gallowsgryph @prismdragon.net Very nice 👌 ⌘ Read more

(#u2uoxea) @movq@movq Only because I build and maintain additional services right? 🤔
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Only because I build and maintain additional services right? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#vqodnya) @gallowsgryph@gallowsgryph That’s mixh better 🥳
@gallowsgryph @prismdragon.net That’s mixh better 🥳 ⌘ Read more

(#vqodnya) @gallowsgryph@gallowsgryph Thays mixh better 🥳
@gallowsgryph @prismdragon.net Thays mixh better 🥳 ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @movq Hmmm now I’m confused 😅 I’ve made no changes anywhere – we still need to all agree, especially client authors and maintaine …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Hmmm now I’m confused 😅 I’ve made no changes anywhere – we still need to all agree, especially client authors and maintainers 🤣 ⌘ Read more

@gallowsgryph@prismdragon.net do you mind updating the fragment part of your avatar url? 🙏
@gallowsgryph @prismdragon.net do you mind updating the fragment part of your avatar url? 🙏 ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @movq@movq Don’t we use the last url for hashing? 🤔
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Don’t we use the last url for hashing? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#u2uoxea) @movq you are absolutely right! And it did happen once more in the past as well. The difficulty about this particular new behavior th …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de you are absolutely right! And it did happen once more in the past as well. The difficulty about this particular new behavior though is that I’ve also had to blacklist it and remove it from the search engine and crawler for obvious reasons. ⌘ Read more

(#mowsvgq) @gallowsgryph Cool! 👌
@gallowsgryph @twtxt.prismdragon.net Cool! 👌 ⌘ Read more

My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it …
My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it and regular rentals.

Otherwise get out and go use something that’s either a distributed (Mastodon, AT, etc) or centralized (Facebook, X, etc) network. ⌘ Read more

(#67x7lhq) I just find a very frustrating when you have these very small number of people that lash out unnecessarily and get so angry over noth …
I just find a very frustrating when you have these very small number of people that lash out unnecessarily and get so angry over nothing. ⌘ Read more

(#67x7lhq) @cuaxolotl I think we’ve done that here right? 🤔 we seem to have collectively formed a community of folks that are interested in i …
@cuaxolotl @sunshinegardens.org I think we’ve done that here right? 🤔 we seem to have collectively formed a community of folks that are interested in interacting with one another in a completely decentralized way and minimal way. ⌘ Read more

(#u2uoxea) @bender@bender Agreed. I just find it an abhorrent that certain folks just don’t even bother to spend the few mins that it takes t …
@bender Agreed. I just find it an abhorrent that certain folks just don’t even bother to spend the few mins that it takes to reach out. Compares to hours of their time to cause havoc and mischief. Seriously wut da fuq?! 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

(#j4bbkpq) @bender@bender Haha if she let you 🤣
@bender Haha if she let you 🤣 ⌘ Read more

After the behaviour of a clearly very angry feed author over the past few days, I’m very tempted to give up on Twtxt and allow it to go back to being dead. What really is the point of building and supporting a way to exchange little pieces of text with one another in a completely decentralized way, if you’re just going to keep bumping up against such hostility? I don’t know why I do this anymore.

After the behaviour of a clearly very angry feed author over the past few days, I’m very tempted to give up on Twtxt and allow it to go back to …
After the behaviour of a clearly very angry feed author over the past few days, I’m very tempted to give up on Twtxt and allow it to go back to being dead. What really is the point of building and supporting a way to exchange little pieces of text with one another in a completely decentralised way, if you’re just going to keep humping up against such hostility? I don’t know why I do this any … ⌘ Read more

(#j4bbkpq) @sorenpeter@sorenpeter Cool! 😎
@sorenpeter @darch.dk@darch.dk Cool! 😎 ⌘ Read more

Who’s coming to the online meetup today? 🤔
Who’s coming to the online meetup today? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

The real crux of the matter is this whole moving feeds around to different uri(s). This makes things hard. I think it’s worth revisiting @anth ‘ …
The real crux of the matter is this whole moving feeds around to different uri(s). This makes things hard. I think it’s worth revisiting @anth @a.9srv.net ’s UUID idea for its merits. ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @movq I’m assuming jenny is doing some kind of validation and verifying if that Twt really does exist on the feed uri? 🤔 But the …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de I’m assuming jenny is doing some kind of validation and verifying if that Twt really does exist on the feed uri? 🤔 But the hash is all kinds of wrong now because @gallowsgryph for whatever reason decided it might be a good idea to have a 2nd # url that doesn’t actually point to t … ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) @bender@bender @movq AFAICT this isn’t a bug with yarnd, but a. bug with the feed itself. The feed is now completely broken in t …
@bender @movq @www.uninformativ.de AFAICT this isn’t a bug with yarnd, but a. bug with the feed itself. The feed is now completely broken in that regard. See #27nifeq ⌘ Read more

(#mowsvgq) @gallowsgryph Your feed is a bit off. I don’t think it makes sense to have a 2nd # url field that doesn’t point to the same Twtxt f …
@gallowsgryph @twtxt.prismdragon.net Your feed is a bit off. I don’t think it makes sense to have a 2nd # url field that doesn’t point to the same Twtxt feed 🤔 ⌘ Read more

(#mowsvgq) @bender@bender I’m not sure I get it 🤣
@bender I’m not sure I get it 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#mowsvgq) What’s going on?
What’s going on? ⌘ Read more

(#rjapt4a) Is there a bug on my side?
Is there a bug on my side? ⌘ Read more

(#64gdl7q) @bender@bender Who did that? 🤔🤣
@bender Who did that? 🤔🤣 ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de How hard would it be to implement something like (#<2024-10-25T17:15:50Z https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt>)in jenny as a replacement for (#twthash) and have it not care about if is http(s) or a g-protocol?

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl Speed is an issue for the client software, not the format itself, but yes I agree that it makes the most sense to append post to the end of the file. I’m referring to the definition that it’s the first url = in the file that is the one that has to be used for the twthash computation, which is a too arbitrary way of defining something that breaks treading time and time again. And this is the case for not using url+date+message = twthash.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL, you are late! :-P Stores around started selling Christmas’s decorations early September. Like, wow! Usually the earliest is after Halloween, more often after Thanksgiving.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de interesting! So, what would the fix be, in this case, do you know? Aware of this, @prologic@twtxt.net?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, having an issue fetching a twtxt context. I am getting:

Trying to fetch "#mowsvgq" from Yarn pod https://txt.sour.is ...
Trying to fetch "#mowsvgq" from Yarn pod https://twtxt.net ...
Twt could not be found

Yet, the twtxt is there: https://twtxt.net/twt/mowsvgq. Bug, or something else?

(#qaaeicq) @bender@bender This is true 🤣 I’d you don’t specify one; one will be auto-generated 🤣
@bender This is true 🤣 I’d you don’t specify one; one will be auto-generated 🤣 ⌘ Read more