# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 30
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/https://twtxt.net/user/lazarus/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt&offset=30
I discovered this nifty site explaining small-world networks from this blog which I followed on after reading his recent quitting twitter.\n\n 
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@slashdot @prologic They will just rewrite our thoughts. It will be easier than trying to read them.
Could you make a separate feed for RSS so that it doesn't interfere with the timeline? My marginal use of Mastodon on floss.social has become just a selective rss feed
tragic :(\n\nThis article is somewhat related.\n\n_Up until now, companies and governments have been using the general population as guinea pigs in their attempts to develop AI. Citizens are routinely subjected to algorithms that have not undergone a robust process of randomized controlled trials. On occasion, algorithms have never been used outside the lab, and we discover their faults once they have harmed someone.__
@adi @eldersnake I have really started to appreciate simple site designs, especially since larger screen mobiles have become serious replacements to laptops (or since I joined in and upgraded my phone).\n\nThe fancy graphic 'company' sites with multiple nested links are looking dated.
@slashdot @prologic Christ! We really are moving in the wrong direction. Giving the few a competitive advantage over us just to join the game.
True, but between non-esteemed colleagues, disagreements are now often seen as being (strongly) in opposition, or reimagined as for the reverse.
Nice! I can't read the Growing twt.social blog though, showing 404.
If some regional pods can get going. They could each periodically have an in-person social event to fundraise to keep their server online (may have other services like pixelfed and peertube). If the events are successful, the organisers should direct some funds to the developers.
@prologic The benefit of experience is recognising quickly our dumb mistakes. Perhaps ease off the ā?
@news Congrats š Can we add a recognisable hashtag e.g. #covid to link all posts of a topic to a conversation?
@jlj @prologic rotated 180Ā° is far superior to flipped vertically š
@prologic Okay. I designed a new logo for twt. Think it's original enough? š„ø
@prologic \n> Iām just going to link to this video again š¤£\n\nThat's hilarious!\n\nfrom Perth btw š
@prologic how? or do you mean support but yet to be implemented?
The release page mentions being able to delete or edit your last twt and #hashtag searching. How is this done?\n\nand can an admin clean up the feed and delete spam?
@prologic \n Passwords are encrypted with scrypt.\n \n Emails are not stored, only a hash is. If you need to recover your account for any reason (password reset) you must supply the same email used on signup, if the hash matches the backend will happily send a reset token.\n\nThis is pretty clever. Is this the default setup from installing one of the pre-built binaries?
@prologic I'm not sure I know enough to implement OAuth2. I'm still considering that twt in combination with say XMMP for private dm and group chat could work for a local community.\n\nIs twtxt.net setup to hash user's passwords and emails? You have the ability for users to retrieve passwords but you mention you don't keep emails. I'm curious as I have just realized that the ejabberd server I setup stores passwords as plain text and I need to research this more.
@prologic Hi James, I caught up with some of your blog posts and discussions on github. Maybe you're right, and we shouldn't have the misconception of privacy on any of these platforms. Even if closed to non-users, one hack or one unblocked user with access can archive everything. Still, with the simplicity of retrieving the archive of users twts, even if a pod owner claims not to track users, it unfortunately doesn't stop someone else from doing so.\n\nSo a pod owner can turn off open registrations and open profiles. I'm feeling dumb but what does disabling open profiles mean for users?
@prologic Yes, makes sense. I appreciate a minimalist design and service that focuses on one particular thing.\n\nNow, on this pod, each user has a profile link to their twtxt.txt which can be accessed by anyone without an account, and I noticed @xuu for example doesn't have his link displayed.\n\nCan the pod owner choose to have accounts private? Like I can view some twitter accounts without logging in and others I can't.\n\nor will the *.txt file always remain hosted somewhere in plaintext by design?*
@prologic considering the negatives of social media on a large scale, wondering about an alternative for a local region. In my case, an expat pod for Vietnam. Mightn't need to complicate the feed with feeds from other pods that can have their own specific content.\n\nUnless seperate pods were made to serve different languages and then joined for the multi lingual.
@prologic and if one ran their own server, can they pick and choose which instances to join with, or choose to exist completely isolated and private; msgs only visible to logged in accounts?
@prologic Got it. Are pods linked (federated), or do they exist in isolation?\n\nOptional, like Mastodon?
@adi @prologic \n\nThanks. My mistake was trying to use twt.social for the pod name.
@adi @prologic I feel like an old man. Never used twitter. Are you able to use the app?\n\nIf I had removed the hashtag and prologic's name would my reply still have linked to this conversation or sent you a private msg?
Hi, I just created this account but couldn't seem to login with the android app, Goryon. does username need ? Is pod just twt.social?