Comment on Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.

irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 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

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bookmarked. I’ll add it to the things you can do from the cli, like get the weather, which is pretty cool.

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• jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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• 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.

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Neat. The cli is so powerful. I probably haven’t even explored 1% of what it can do.

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• 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

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cool.

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  • 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?

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    • 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.

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      • 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”?

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