# 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 11
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/6z7qt4a
> twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
The keyword here is microblogging. But it doesn't feel like we've been (relatively speaking) doing much of that lately... maybe I go the concept of microblogging wrong.
@aelaraji Thatβs how twtxt started: As microblogging. Yarn shifted up some gears and now itβs more like social media β more powerful, but a bit different. π
@aelaraji Thatβs how twtxt started: As microblogging. Yarn shifted up some gears and now itβs more like social media β more powerful, but a bit different. π
@aelaraji I cannot tell you either. I don't know the difference. :-)
I'd need to think about it deeply, but at a first sight, nanoblogging would be a simple text (like the original twtxt spec, aimed for TUIs), and microblogging (like Twitter was a few years ago), would be about sharing texts, images, videos, GIFs, links, and perhaps Markdown styling.
Why? You have shorter messages than in a blog, but you may add almost anything you could do in a blog.
Buuut... who knows?
You're all wrong π @anth will happily tell you (_hopefully_) that we've been doing this whole "microblogging" / "status update" thing decades earlier than anything you've ever seen in the form of finger π€£ and "plan" files π
I think we are approaching a new step.
I think we are approaching a new step.
well (insert stubborn emoji here) π, word blog comes from weblog, and microblogging could derivate from 'smaller weblog'. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Microblogging
I'd differentiate it from sharing status updates as it was done with 'finger' or even a BBS. For example, being able to reply; create new threads and sharing them on a URL is something we could expect from 'Twitter', the most popular microbloging model (citation needed)
I like to discuss it, since conversations usually are improved if we sync on what we understand for the same words.