@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org

i hope we don’t go chasing mass-appeal

I don’t think this is going to happen any time soon.

What makes twtxt unique is its radical technical simplicity. And that means you have to be a tech-savvy person to appreciate twtxt and that means mass-appeal is pretty much out of the question to begin with. 😅

Yarn adds a lot of user-friendliness and, in a way, does try to appeal to the masses. And it almost worked. When Twitter died, we saw a substantial influx of new users, didn’t we? Only problem is, Mastodon had a massive headstart. The Fediverse was already huge, so what did Yarn/twtxt have to offer? It is way simpler and way easier to self-host, but who cares about that? Right, the tech-savvy people, not the masses. Many of the tech-savvy people were already using Mastodon, though, and, frankly, “simplicity” is not something that a lot of folks even care about. Thus Yarn/twtxt never took off.