# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# 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.
# 
# 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 18
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/eyg53lq
@darch I think having a way to layer on features so those who can support/desire them can. It would be best for the community to be able to layer on (or off) the features.
An option would be to have /twtxt.txt be the base functionality as bukket intended without subject tags, markdown, images and such truncated to 140 chars. a /yarn.txt that has all the extentions as we know and love. and maybe a /.well-known/webfinger + (TBD endpoint) that adds on the crypto enhancements that further extend things.
An option would be to have /twtxt.txt be the base functionality as bukket intended without subject tags, markdown, images and such truncated to 140 chars. a /yarn.txt that has all the extentions as we know and love. and maybe a /.well-known/webfinger + (TBD endpoint) that adds on the crypto enhancements that further extend things.
@xuu Devils advocate: what value would be really be providing here? Would, for example @lyse and/or @movq switch to following the new Uarn feeds or stick with the truncated unmarked up and out-of-context pure twtxt feeds?
@xuu Devils advocate: what value would be really be providing here? Would, for example @lyse and/or @movq switch to following the new Uarn feeds or stick with the truncated unmarked up and out-of-context pure twtxt feeds?
@xuu Devils advocate: what value would be really be providing here? Would, for example @lyse and/or @movq switch to following the new Uarn feeds or stick with the truncated unmarked up and out-of-context pure twtxt feeds?
We could ask them? But on the counter would bukket or jan6 follow the pure twtxt feeds? Probably not either way... We could use content negotiation as well. text/plain for basic and text/yarn for enhanced.
We could ask them? But on the counter would bukket or jan6 follow the pure twtxt feeds? Probably not either way... We could use content negotiation as well. text/plain for basic and text/yarn for enhanced.
@xuu @prologic I will never give up threading! It's a very vital civil achievement.
@xuu @prologic Yarn.social without threading (as it would be the case in a “truncated” feed) does not make sense to me.

Put another way: Yarn.social is not twtxt. The content that we all have in our feeds really is much closer to a web forum or usenet or whatever. It’s threaded conversations. twtxt, as I *believe* it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it. The formats of Yarn.social and twtxt might be very similar, but the content is vastly different and, in a way, incompatible. (As such, I *think* I understand very well that the original twtxt crowd is disgruntled.)

That proposed truncated feed doesn’t really provide any value, if you ask me. 🤔 It’d just be chaotic.
@xuu @prologic Yarn.social without threading (as it would be the case in a “truncated” feed) does not make sense to me.

Put another way: Yarn.social is not twtxt. The content that we all have in our feeds really is much closer to a web forum or usenet or whatever. It’s threaded conversations. twtxt, as I *believe* it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it. The formats of Yarn.social and twtxt might be very similar, but the content is vastly different and, in a way, incompatible. (As such, I *think* I understand very well that the original twtxt crowd is disgruntled.)

That proposed truncated feed doesn’t really provide any value, if you ask me. 🤔 It’d just be chaotic.
@xuu @prologic Yarn.social without threading (as it would be the case in a “truncated” feed) does not make sense to me.

Put another way: Yarn.social is not twtxt. The content that we all have in our feeds really is much closer to a web forum or usenet or whatever. It’s threaded conversations. twtxt, as I *believe* it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it. The formats of Yarn.social and twtxt might be very similar, but the content is vastly different and, in a way, incompatible. (As such, I *think* I understand very well that the original twtxt crowd is disgruntled.)

That proposed truncated feed doesn’t really provide any value, if you ask me. 🤔 It’d just be chaotic.
@movq Agreed 💯
@movq Agreed 💯
@movq Agreed 💯
@lyse Same! 😆 And it works quite well 😉
@lyse Same! 😆 And it works quite well 😉
@lyse Same! 😆 And it works quite well 😉