In-reply-to » An idea for helping humans and machines understand when a twtxt-feed are using some of the yarn.social extensions by applying a mix of a hash-bang and a DTD to the first line of the txt-file:

I don’t like the idea of an additional special bang. DTD, bah! Why not simply use # doctype = whatever? Also, which problem does this solve? What would clients do differently? And humans just could look at the comment or URL and see that this feed makes use of extensions – if they care. Twtxt purists would certainly hate such a new thing, too, I don’t think it helps them in any way. So I don’t see the use case for that. Can you please elaborate, @darch@neotxt.dk, what you had in mind?

My feed’s preamble starts with (links to be debatable):

# Learn more about twtxt at: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
# This feed makes use of some extensions: https://dev.twtxt.net/

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