# 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 14
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/2ipurca
I think Gemini is a breath of fresh air. These people who develop web standards won't stop at all 😂
Guess it's actually a pain to write a browser from scratch
@retronav i hold the belief that text is future-proof. we started with gopher and now we have gemini to keep it company.
i find reading things without the distractions is much more efficient. no browser needed unless you care to use a proxy in browser (sometimes necessary away from keyboard)
Yes, I'm in full agreement. However, I see myself getting sick of all the new things coming up as "web standards", probably that looks like building on a weak foundation to me, so obviously gemini looks like a far better option to me for content in text. Not sure how multimedia would work with Gemini though.
@carsten hardly any known clients have inline image support, and while you can link data: URIs for them, it'd probably make it needlessly complex @retronav
I personally convert them to ASCII art and paste as preformatted text, hah
@novaburst
> I personally convert them to ASCII art and paste as preformatted text, hah
teach me :-)
@novaburst if i could live a life where pictures were ascii, i might achieve happiness. the python script works well but needs a bit of cleanup.
https://github.com/dialup-inc/ascii <--- this i think needs some attention speaking of ascii-related matters
@novaburst That would be one way of doing it. But don't you want to document things sometimes? Or do you save those things as PDF?
@carsten As @novaburst suggested, ASCII images is probably what we're looking for 😉
But simply having links with alt text to any hosted image might work if it's too complex/ looks meaningless in ASCII.
For videos, documents, the same thing can be applied, except you cannot really ASCII-fy them.
@carsten what is this you speak of, pdf?