It’s…a web-accessible log file, basically. Timestamp-and-status, line after line, and “clients” read it periodically to report updates. My now-defunct feed has a couple of comments (# …) at the top for the URL and my “user ID,” but I don’t remember if they were requirements, conveniences, or just a cargo cult thing.
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve never heard of twtxt. When you say ‘posting entirely as plain text’, are you posting as plain text to a blog, forum, etc from the cli?
jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago shertson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If I remember right, you host a text file on your server. You write short Twitter style texts and can @ mention others and reply to their posts.
It’s been a while since I played with it, so I might be wrong.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago Neat. The cli is so powerful. I probably haven’t even explored 1% of what it can do.
kiol@discuss.online 2 days ago
Here is an example for someone rendering the twtxt file, including the user icons in a manner that clearly resembles normal microblogging: twtxt.net or you can see my twtxt file directly as txt.livingcartoon.org/latest.txt
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day ago Cool.
somegeek@programming.dev 1 day ago
Does this work with a central server of some sort or is it decentralized and the only thing we have are text files and clients, and the clients handle everything else?
kiol@discuss.online 1 day ago
You simply host the txt file. It doesn’t get more decentralized, to the point that centralization is the tricky part here.
somegeek@programming.dev 1 day ago
And then you follow/subscribe other peoples feeds? And your client fetches them? but theres no such thing as a “global feed”?
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah, not heard of this either
Following the cross-post to the site: twtxt.dev it seems this has been going for ~10 years!
It’s basically plain text tweets
Bookmarked. I’ll add it to the things you can do from the cli, like get the weather, which is pretty cool.