# 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 10
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/nsijvza
A very insightful chat tonight with @prologic, @ocdtrekkie, @darch, and @ocdtrekkie's friend Ian who is, presumably, still primarily using legacy social networks. Hopefully we can change that. Some things we talked about tonight:
* The rationale behind GoNix
* @darch's thoughts on social networking (https://blog.neotxt.dk/)
* Bringing people on to free platforms
* Bot prevention on Yarn.social (#981)
* Funding for Yarn.social
* Goryon, material design, and satanism
There is also the other kind of bots, that we do stuff when you for example @metion them or use use a specific #tag in you posts. Have anyone made something like that for text or could I be part of a yarn pod to script these kind of bots?
@darch I don't see why not. I'm even come up with the idea of a 2-way Twtxt bot that you could interact with. Maybe I _might_ do this and built a GPT-3 powered Twtxt bot that you can follow, -mention and interact with -- it could be fun 😅
@darch I don't see why not. I'm even come up with the idea of a 2-way Twtxt bot that you could interact with. Maybe I _might_ do this and built a GPT-3 powered Twtxt bot that you can follow, -mention and interact with -- it could be fun 😅
"Bot prevention" was a poor choice of words. I meant "Unwanted bot prevention." A GPT-3 bot would be interesting @prologic. Just watch out for prompt injection.
@mckinley Hmm yeah I saw something about this in my feed the other day. The problem is I'm not even sure how you'd protect against such attacks. Because the GPT-3 prompts themselves are basically just English which as we know has quite a wide variation of structure, it would be next to impossible to detect Prompt Injection attacks on the input. Sanitizing input for SQL is a much easier task as you are dealing with a stricter subset of input and a language with a pre-defined grammar.
@mckinley Hmm yeah I saw something about this in my feed the other day. The problem is I'm not even sure how you'd protect against such attacks. Because the GPT-3 prompts themselves are basically just English which as we know has quite a wide variation of structure, it would be next to impossible to detect Prompt Injection attacks on the input. Sanitizing input for SQL is a much easier task as you are dealing with a stricter subset of input and a language with a pre-defined grammar.
@mckinley Is Mastodon a "legacy" social network in this context too? :P
@ocdtrekkie I don't know, I'm still waiting for the paperwork on that.