# 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).
#
# twt range = 1 10
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4ust3oa
Mastodon is Email? – Email is good. and the same goes for twtxt+yarn
When I try to explain yarn.social to others i also tell them that's like email, but not sure many people get it.
What are your experience with getting others on board to yarn and twtxt?
@darch you mean if I join Mastodon a bunch of old people are going to forward me bad memes and political rants? No thanks!
@abucci no, because twtxt is pull only. The comparison with email is more that is not just one server by one company, but that no one owns the platform, since it not a platform but at protocol
@abucci You were making a joke, but I’d wager that many people actually respond like that. 😂 “What, it’s like email? Full of spam?!”
It’s a good analogy, though. Email is probably the one and only decentralized system that people are somewhat familiar with. 🤔
@abucci You were making a joke, but I’d wager that many people actually respond like that. 😂 “What, it’s like email? Full of spam?!”
It’s a good analogy, though. Email is probably the one and only decentralized system that people are somewhat familiar with. 🤔
@abucci You were making a joke, but I’d wager that many people actually respond like that. 😂 “What, it’s like email? Full of spam?!”
It’s a good analogy, though. Email is probably the one and only decentralized system that people are somewhat familiar with. 🤔
@abucci You were making a joke, but I’d wager that many people actually respond like that. 😂 “What, it’s like email? Full of spam?!”
It’s a good analogy, though. Email is probably the one and only decentralized system that people are somewhat familiar with. 🤔
@darch @abucci @movq Hmm, comparision to e-mail lacks quite a few important bits I reckon. First of all, the pull mechanism applies only to the receiving e-mail part. However, sending mails is push, maybe some yarnd gossipping fills in that gap, no idea. Also there's no e-mail address equivalent, so everybody can read your stuff (ok, true for unencrypted e-mails, too), but here literally everybody can read your feed. Also, the complexity of e-mail is a very different beast.
Don't get fooled with jenny and mutt. ;-D Twtxt is way much more like a website. Well, in fact, it basically is.
And I try not to talk people into twtxt. It's just something I try to avoid in general.
@movq I think the analogy is sound too. I wonder sometimes, though, whether people who aren't steeped in tech have any awareness of what is going on behind the scenes when they send email and why any of that matters.
@lyse why do you avoid to bring people here?