# 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 15
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/klyuyhq
@lyse why do you avoid to bring people here?
@carsten I don't like getting missionized myself, so I *try* to hold my horses. Obviously, doesn't pan out all the time.
As for twtxt in particular, I see growth more as a bad thing, I don't want to deal with all these idiots out there, not even indirectly. If the network grows, other folks, best not to tangle with, are naturally attracted, too. It's a normal thing, there's no way around it. I'd like to rather keep my filter bubble small and familiar. I know, a lot of, if not most, people here disagree with me.
Also, I even don't know whom of my friends I would want to create their own twtxt feed, since I'm in touch with them in other ways, anyways. The ones I told about twtxt in the past were very hesitant to join. So was I in the beginning. For very good reasons. Writing shit publicly on the internet is not everybody's cup of tea. And by now people have already established ways of publishing truly interesting things. So, there's simply no need for alternatives to them. My best mates have low opinions on social media, so do I. I try to convince my brain not to consider twtxt as social media. :-) I'm just here because I initially was intrigued by the simplicity of twtxt and I like the people I follow.
Lastly, there are days I hardly can keep up with the amount of new messages, so a larger community would make that job even harder.
Quite a pessimistic and selfish view, some might say. And they were probably not too far off. It's very hard to explain. And then even not in mother tongue.
@lyse I too avoid bringing in people, the one I know would compare everything to Twitter or Facebook and ask me directly to have this and that.
From what I follow most is tech related and I'll have to deal with the aftermath of anyone I know getting interested in something they can't handle by themselves... 🫣
Also, 99.999% of all the people I know can't speak or even recognize the words here as English. 🙃
@lyse Your comments around maintaining your "filter bubble" and "being able to keep up" are things I _think_ we should try to find good ways and tools to manage. I too like the filter bubble I've created around myself (so far) and probably want to mostly keep it that way (more or less). Yes keeping up is getting harder, which has driven me to work on and experiment with "Filtering".
I don't really see Twtxt / Yarn.social as a "social media" per se, I see it more of an ecosystem and an easy way to get a "thought" or two out there with some familiar things (of course) borrowed from "social media". Remember that I _think_ much of the same concepts really predated the likes of Twitter/Facebook anyway (finger? Status.net? and others...) so the "sour taste" we have is maybe ill placed?
Anyway, let's keep trying to make something good 🤗
@lyse Your comments around maintaining your "filter bubble" and "being able to keep up" are things I _think_ we should try to find good ways and tools to manage. I too like the filter bubble I've created around myself (so far) and probably want to mostly keep it that way (more or less). Yes keeping up is getting harder, which has driven me to work on and experiment with "Filtering".
I don't really see Twtxt / Yarn.social as a "social media" per se, I see it more of an ecosystem and an easy way to get a "thought" or two out there with some familiar things (of course) borrowed from "social media". Remember that I _think_ much of the same concepts really predated the likes of Twitter/Facebook anyway (finger? Status.net? and others...) so the "sour taste" we have is maybe ill placed?
Anyway, let's keep trying to make something good 🤗
@lyse Your comments around maintaining your "filter bubble" and "being able to keep up" are things I _think_ we should try to find good ways and tools to manage. I too like the filter bubble I've created around myself (so far) and probably want to mostly keep it that way (more or less). Yes keeping up is getting harder, which has driven me to work on and experiment with "Filtering".
I don't really see Twtxt / Yarn.social as a "social media" per se, I see it more of an ecosystem and an easy way to get a "thought" or two out there with some familiar things (of course) borrowed from "social media". Remember that I _think_ much of the same concepts really predated the likes of Twitter/Facebook anyway (finger? Status.net? and others...) so the "sour taste" we have is maybe ill placed?
Anyway, let's keep trying to make something good 🤗
@lyse Your comments around maintaining your "filter bubble" and "being able to keep up" are things I _think_ we should try to find good ways and tools to manage. I too like the filter bubble I've created around myself (so far) and probably want to mostly keep it that way (more or less). Yes keeping up is getting harder, which has driven me to work on and experiment with "Filtering".
I don't really see Twtxt / Yarn.social as a "social media" per se, I see it more of an ecosystem and an easy way to get a "thought" or two out there with some familiar things (of course) borrowed from "social media". Remember that I _think_ much of the same concepts really predated the likes of Twitter/Facebook anyway (finger? Status.net? and others...) so the "sour taste" we have is maybe ill placed?
Anyway, let's keep trying to make something good 🤗
I don't want to bring people here, at least those I know in real life, because I try to separate my real identity from my online identity.
This will change when the network grows bigger and there's a larger anonymity set, for lack of a better term.
Like @lyse said, this is an extremely selfish reason, but it is my reason.
@mckinley Well we all have our reasons and they're all valid and good imo 👌 I _think_ as long as we continue to make the thing we want to and like to use that's all that matters right? That's how I started out on this journey and project, I created the very thing I wanted to use, turns out others didn't mind using it either 🤗
@mckinley Well we all have our reasons and they're all valid and good imo 👌 I _think_ as long as we continue to make the thing we want to and like to use that's all that matters right? That's how I started out on this journey and project, I created the very thing I wanted to use, turns out others didn't mind using it either 🤗
@mckinley Well we all have our reasons and they're all valid and good imo 👌 I _think_ as long as we continue to make the thing we want to and like to use that's all that matters right? That's how I started out on this journey and project, I created the very thing I wanted to use, turns out others didn't mind using it either 🤗
@mckinley Well we all have our reasons and they're all valid and good imo 👌 I _think_ as long as we continue to make the thing we want to and like to use that's all that matters right? That's how I started out on this journey and project, I created the very thing I wanted to use, turns out others didn't mind using it either 🤗
@lyse Idiots: Makes sense. Thanks for hopefully not counting me to them ;-)
Friends: Yes, that is another problem. Every so often I fell really lonely when I talk about IRC, chats, alternative communication, matrix etc. Even colleagues at work look at me like I am an Alien. Especially when I say I do not use Facebook, WhatsApp or any google product (at least not on purpose)
Amount of messages: True. Kind of work related I follow numerous things related to Ukraine. Not nice sometimes. And there is a lot going on. Hard to keep up, yes.
I'm still following you, @carsten, hence can't be too bad. :-P I talk to my uni mates daily in IRC, so at least there's that. They're similarly minded, but of course, there are also topics where we all disagree with each other. So you gotta find a healthy balance. :-) With other, non-IT real life friends, you just gotta stick to some common subjects and activities. Some know I have some "crazy" opinions, but they're used to that and accepted it in the meantime. It's okay for both sides.
@lyse me too. I am the one who is having crazy opinions and thoughts about things.