Bad idea of the day: ‘mastogone’ – a script that identifies people you’re following who haven’t posted in more than a year

Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color

So since Mastodon was mentioned a few times, I’m trying that out. Any recommendations on people to follow?

Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.

@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.

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When it comes to performance issues, I honestly think the solution is just “don’t follow so many people”. You only pull the feeds you read, and once one’s feeds are too much for the computer to handle, they’ll almost certainly have far too much content for a person to actually read.

part 3: make ‘tf’ run ‘twtxt follow “$@”’

@buckket did you consider having [following] in the twtxt file itself, so people could see who other people were following?

@ruebot I kinda wish the config was part of the twtxt file, so you could see who people are following