# 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 12
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/35mh4wq
@zimpenfish Hey! 👋 Just wondering if this Cricket status thing is basically what you would consider a Bot? The reason I'm asking is that typically yarnd filters out Bots and Automated Feeds out of the "Discover" view. We _should_ try to do something here for new bots and automated feeds and find a way to generalize this? 🤔
@zimpenfish Hey! 👋 Just wondering if this Cricket status thing is basically what you would consider a Bot? The reason I'm asking is that typically yarnd filters out Bots and Automated Feeds out of the "Discover" view. We _should_ try to do something here for new bots and automated feeds and find a way to generalize this? 🤔
@zimpenfish Well before you do, we should discuss this openly and come up with a robust way to do this. We have a bunch of Spec Extensions -- So we should start there. The _probllem_ I see at the moment is "how do we prove it's a bot or automated feed", "do we care?" cc @lyse and @movq for comment.
Also as an aside (and it doesn't matter so much because the network and ecosystem is quite small still), feeds do tend to find their way across pods as yarnd is both distributed and decentralised. All it takes is one other person interested in Cricket to follow you (very nice) feed and boom 😅
@zimpenfish Well before you do, we should discuss this openly and come up with a robust way to do this. We have a bunch of Spec Extensions -- So we should start there. The _probllem_ I see at the moment is "how do we prove it's a bot or automated feed", "do we care?" cc @lyse and @movq for comment.
Also as an aside (and it doesn't matter so much because the network and ecosystem is quite small still), feeds do tend to find their way across pods as yarnd is both distributed and decentralised. All it takes is one other person interested in Cricket to follow you (very nice) feed and boom 😅
@prologic Hmm, mostly a Yarn.social issue, I guess. 🤔 My client doesn’t follow feeds automatically (neither does lyse’s, afaik), so I don’t really care, to be honest. 😅
We could introduce a metadata field that says “I’m a bot”, which would allow Yarn pods to ignore/hide/whatever those feeds. That would probably be rather useful, I guess?
@prologic Hmm, mostly a Yarn.social issue, I guess. 🤔 My client doesn’t follow feeds automatically (neither does lyse’s, afaik), so I don’t really care, to be honest. 😅
We could introduce a metadata field that says “I’m a bot”, which would allow Yarn pods to ignore/hide/whatever those feeds. That would probably be rather useful, I guess?
@prologic Hmm, mostly a Yarn.social issue, I guess. 🤔 My client doesn’t follow feeds automatically (neither does lyse’s, afaik), so I don’t really care, to be honest. 😅
We could introduce a metadata field that says “I’m a bot”, which would allow Yarn pods to ignore/hide/whatever those feeds. That would probably be rather useful, I guess?
@zimpenfish That's what I tend to think too. An author (such as yourself) "declares" that this feed is automated in some way. For examples all of the feeds at feeds.twtxt.net which aggregates and converts RSS/Atom to Twtxt _could_ be doing this too 👌
I'm in favour of something like:
# automated = true
Something as simple as this _might_ work?
@zimpenfish That's what I tend to think too. An author (such as yourself) "declares" that this feed is automated in some way. For examples all of the feeds at feeds.twtxt.net which aggregates and converts RSS/Atom to Twtxt _could_ be doing this too 👌
I'm in favour of something like:
# automated = true
Something as simple as this _might_ work?
@zimpenfish I guess the thing is we have to define what behaviours we would derive from this property.
For example the only one yarnd currently uses is as a mechanism to filter bots and automated feeds out of the "Discover" view of pods, making it basically (as much as one can make possible) other folks you can "discover" (from other user follows on the same pod).
@zimpenfish I guess the thing is we have to define what behaviours we would derive from this property.
For example the only one yarnd currently uses is as a mechanism to filter bots and automated feeds out of the "Discover" view of pods, making it basically (as much as one can make possible) other folks you can "discover" (from other user follows on the same pod).
Exactly, I have to explicitly follow a feed in order for it to show up. So, I don't care either. :-)