sorry @prologic, timeline doesn't autocomplete the mentions yet, and it was 'difficult' to look for your URL from the phone.

@xuu Actually... I'm working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns (the crawler / search engine) one day 🤞

@eapl.me@eapl.me What's with your client not using the proper syntax for mentions?

$ bat 'https://twtxt.net/twt/lnrgahq' | jq '.text'
"(<a href="?search=4xaabhq" class="tag">#4xaabhq</a>) thanks @prologic! 
@bender the idea of the RFC was to reach an agreement on a difficult problem, receiving proposals, and the voting is a simple count to gauge the sentiment of \"is this a problem worth to be fixed?, are we committed to implement a change in our clients?\" 

But that's a fair point. What do the community expect? What do y'all expect?"

🤔

somehow I forgot that existed.

Perhaps it was its mention of being a demo implementation here: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html#registry So I though it wasn't really active.

Anyway, I think that's a good idea.

Is there something similar available on Yarn? Sorry for for asking if that was mentioned recently.

I think that the clients may help you to submit your URL to these directories, and also to get a view of the twts in them.

thanks @prologic! @bender the idea of the RFC was to reach an agreement on a difficult problem, receiving proposals, and the voting is a simple count to gauge the sentiment of "is this a problem worth to be fixed?, are we committed to implement a change in our clients?"

But that's a fair point. What do the community expect? What do y'all expect?

I wonder if I can do away with the followers follows mutes tables and expect the client to actually filter Twts appropriately before Display? This would simplify the SqliteCache considerably and also mean it would be agnostic of single-user or multi-user as that's delegated to another layer. Hmmm 🧐

Whoohoo! 😇

@bender I never implemented it actually. That's why we have the # refresh = metadata field for those that yell loudly enough can add to their feeds. Otherwise yarnd uses WebSub between pods and is fairly dumb. I could never find an "intelligent" way to back-off without hurting freshness.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Done

@eapl.me other than getting a pseudo tally, what else do you aim to accomplish from this? That is, what is the tangible expectation?

For anyone following the proposals to improve replies and threads in twtxt, the voting period has started and will be open for a week. https://eapl.me/rfc0001/

Please share the link with the twtxt community, and leave your vote on your preferred proposals, which will be used to gauge the perceived benefits.

Also, the conversation is open to discuss implementation concerns or anything aimed at making twtxt better.

@movq Hah I used to be a heavy mpd user myself once upon a time 😅

@prologic what did you come up with, to accomplish it?

@xuu I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do this too 😂

Loved this so much I had to re-post it! 🤣 Thanks @xuu

@xuu LOL 😂

LOL 😂

What has been the hardest bug you got to fix? https://hackerweb.app/#/item/43461618

thanks? 😆

Now I need the non-hacker friends 🥲

@eapl.me you wrote, partially:

"I’d like to change that. It’s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these."

I wish you well, and good luck! 😅

it seems I don't know how to do Markdown 😅

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds. I'd like to change that. It's by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn't have to be hacky all the time, as you don't need to be a nerd to have a blog. But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you don't want that, unless you are a 'public figure'. I couldn't say that a microblogging is a "social network" by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as you'd do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

• Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you don't, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of "Your 'followings' are following these accounts/people". (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
• Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying "Hey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discovered". I'm thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

thanks andros!

instead of adding the new twt at the end of the feed, do it at the beginning The PHP client did that originally, although I didn't see a real benefit if you use... a client. It could help if you read the .txt file through a browser or something. Also, not many clients are prepared to cut the request, and you can't rely on the file being organized that way, so finally we dropped that feature.

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@bender I gave up after page 4 (DuckDuckGo) 🤣

@bender I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to easily discovers others except through social interactions and a sort of "word of mouth" of human exchanges of communications.

@andros and how will that help "discover people"? I am missing something, I am sure, as I don't understand.

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds. So one would script a way to often (and/or ongoing) check your web server logs for new mentions, "follows", etc.

@doesnm why? The Gemini protocol is an obscure, niche, good-for-nothing (yeah, I am trolling) protocol. Search for "Gemini", and tell me in which page, on your search engine of choice, you see it being referred as a protocol.

@xuu no disagreements from me!

@xuu it is called “reaffirmation”. It is a lesser known feature that activates randomly to make sure you get the gist on things that matter. 😅

2 is a great idea, you should suggest it in that blog post.

About 1, well, I think anyone has an email address and only about 5% use a Feed, so it makes sense to offer what most people use 🤔

Did you demoed Yarn? When it comes to less friction nothing can beat a web browser!

@prologic Gemini has an answer for you:

This is a conversation thread from a twtxt network, detailing a user's (movq) frustration with the Mastodon "export data" feature and their consideration of self-hosting a fediverse alternative. Here's a summary:

• movq's initial issue:
  • movq is concerned about the volatility of their data on their current Mastodon instance due to a broken "export data" feature.
  • They contacted the admins, but the issue remains unresolved.
  • This led them to contemplate self-hosting.
• Alternative fediverse software suggestions:
  • kat suggests gotosocial as a lightweight alternative to Mastodon.
  • movq agrees, and also mentions snac as a potential option.
• movq's change of heart:
  • movq ultimately decides that self-hosting any fediverse software, besides twtxt, is too much effort.
• Resolution and compromise:
  • The Mastodon admins attribute the export failure to the size of movq's account.
  • movq decides to set their Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after approximately 180 days to manage data size.
  • Movq also mentions that they use auto-expiring links on twtxt to reduce data storage.

Wait! What's going on?! 🧐

Wow, phishing is just around the corner 👀

A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/

@movq so glad I don’t use Firefox! And now I will pretend I haven’t seeing your screenshot. Hahahahaha!

@movq I don’t see the utility, nor artistry in it, but if it works for you, 🥳! 😅

@movq LOLZ! 🤣

Yeah link please 🙏

@lyse I think the community should be allowed to experiment mate 😅 Just make tt2 ignore such items in feeds and you're good 👍

@eapl.me@eapl.me Yeah yarnd already filters/ignores them (for now)

yeah, that's the tricky part of adding features

"it is very easy to filter or ignore it" This is the interesting part for legacy clients, hehe

Joking aside, let's see how it works in the wild!

It looks interesting but not enough for me to buy one 😅

@andros This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣

I have finished 1-9 on Python. If anyone is interested, I could share the code, or in Reddit many people have shared theirs.

👀

Is it working now? I'd say again that perhaps the DMs could be stored in another .txt, but anyway I'd like to try it.

I don't have the need for a physical Calc nor a watch, although I'm slightly more interested in a https://banglejs.com or an eink watch 🤔