In-reply-to » @nexeq given lightweight nature of yarnd and the twtxt protocol in general relying on a text file and a cache layer, a poderator who would desire to have n(x) timeline (i.e. all tweets from 2017 to today) would have to invest heavily in infrastructure and the protocol twtxt and client yarnd would have to be redesigned from the ground up.

I also totally get whet you’re saying about a twtxt file potentially growing to be huge. I guess that, and the fact that it’s necessary to work around it with a significant caching architecture, is a major downside to the model of twtxt itself which I hadn’t considered.

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