# 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 13
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/5ekuk6a
@retrocrash nah, this isn't accurate. I'm on the fediverse and the Nazi problem is very real and always in your face. There are hundreds of Nazi instances and new ones pop up every day. Every day I see toots about some new asshole. And I don't know what you're talking about "the radical left"--in the US at least there is no such thing.
@abucci And I'm willing to guess (even place a wager) that you see these so-called 'Tots" not because you wanted to but becuase the "system" and it's algorithms forced it on you.
@abucci And I'm willing to guess (even place a wager) that you see these so-called 'Tots" not because you wanted to but becuase the "system" and it's algorithms forced it on you.
@prologic oh, totally. The fediverse has some of the same dogpiling problems as twitter, and you're often beholden to the administrator of the instance you joined to take care of that for you. There are tools for blocking people and whole instances, which helps, but if a dozen people dive into your mentions to harass you because they decided they didn't like something you said, you're stuck with the labor of identifying each one and blocking them. At some point it'd be easier to abandon your account.
I don't have a clear view of how I'd deal with something like that on yarn.social (not that I think it'd happen), but at least since I administer my own instance I have a lot of power 💪
and they're starting to add features to promote "popular" toots and hashtags, which of course is a recipe for disaster. You'd think people would've learned by now how easy it is for a group of people to game popularity-based systems 🤔
@abucci I'm not sure it's actually possible to "dogpile" on Yarn.social - We're tried to make is extremely difficult to do things like this or enable behaviours like self-promotion, etc. -- If there's a new way someone discovers to do this, we'll find a way to code that way so it's "harder" to do.
@abucci I'm not sure it's actually possible to "dogpile" on Yarn.social - We're tried to make is extremely difficult to do things like this or enable behaviours like self-promotion, etc. -- If there's a new way someone discovers to do this, we'll find a way to code that way so it's "harder" to do.
@abucci And that's just it, we do not have any tools or mechanisms for promoting one person's content over another or even topics or tags. Everytime the topic of "Likes" come up, we say no, including the existing community. It makes Yarn.social a bit more boring and unexciting, but that's okay I think? 😅
@abucci And that's just it, we do not have any tools or mechanisms for promoting one person's content over another or even topics or tags. Everytime the topic of "Likes" come up, we say no, including the existing community. It makes Yarn.social a bit more boring and unexciting, but that's okay I think? 😅
@prologic The main reason I used "likes" on twitter or on mastodon is as a kind of acknowledgement that I read someone's post. Back when they used to be stars on twitter I did that more often, but likes remind me too much of facebook 🤢 Anyhow I think it's maybe better to cut down on noise by not doing that, and only replying when there's something to say?
@abucci That's what my old man believes.
> If you don't have anything good to say don't say anything.
@abucci That's what my old man believes.
> If too don't have anything good to say don't say anything.
@abucci That's what my old man believes.
> If you don't have anything good to say don't say anything.