# 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 44
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/obtqrkq
adi
twtxt.net
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Speaking of vision, my vision is everybody's "social profile" is his self hosted web site! Customized a la MySpace if the owner prefers so.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi if by that you mean everyone either runs a Yarn.social yarnd pod or hosts a twtxt.txt and avatar.png, then yes 🤣 💯
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi if by that you mean everyone either runs a Yarn.social yarnd pod or hosts a twtxt.txt and avatar.png, then yes 🤣 💯
adi
twtxt.net
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@prologic That's for the microblogging part.
adi
f.adi.onl
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@prologic That's for the microblogging part.
adi
twtxt.net
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@adi @prologic Interesting, you'd have to integrate that with various actions. Like uploading a photo I guess?
adi
f.adi.onl
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@adi @prologic Interesting, you'd have to integrate that with various actions. Like uploading a photo I guess?
prologic
twtxt.net
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I don't understand 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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I don't understand 🤔
adi
twtxt.net
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@prologic Well, Facebook updates your feed whenever you upload a new photo I guess, so if a website is your "social profile" might as well update your twtxt feed on various actions?
adi
f.adi.onl
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@prologic Well, Facebook updates your feed whenever you upload a new photo I guess, so if a website is your "social profile" might as well update your twtxt feed on various actions?
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi

> might as well update your twtxt feed on various actions

You have to elaborate on this a bit more... I'm not following your thinking here yet 🤗
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi

> might as well update your twtxt feed on various actions

You have to elaborate on this a bit more... I'm not following your thinking here yet 🤗
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi \n\n> might as well update your twtxt feed on various actions\n\nYou have to elaborate on this a bit more... I'm not following your thinking here yet 🤗
adi
f.adi.onl
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@prologic @lyse posts photos to his website, he could automate posting an announcement to his twtxt feed whenever he adds new photos.
adi
twtxt.net
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@prologic @lyse posts photos to his website, he could automate posting an announcement to his twtxt feed whenever he adds new photos.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi @lyse that's pretty easy to do now though right? Just do either:


echo -e "$(date -Im)\tHello world!" >> twtxt.txt


Or with the yarnc client:


echo "Hello World" | yarnc post
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi @lyse that's pretty easy to do now though right? Just do either:\n\n
\necho -e "$(date -Im)\\tHello world!" >> twtxt.txt\n
\n\nOr with the yarnc client:\n\n
\necho "Hello World" | yarnc post\n
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi @lyse that's pretty easy to do now though right? Just do either:


echo -e "$(date -Im)\tHello world!" >> twtxt.txt


Or with the yarnc client:


echo "Hello World" | yarnc post
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@adi @prologic Yeah, I was thinking about that for a while. The Atom feed is automatically updated by my script. But since I give a bit more context in my twtxt feed, I do it manually. Maybe I should just include the twtxt teaser in the Atom feed or even photo gallery as well. And then maybe provide German and English texts. Any opinions? I was also thinking about better searchability with categories, so I can quickly get an overview for all galleries containing squirrels, slow worms, goats, cows, certain locations, whatever.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi @lyse Actually searching for images posted is something I want to add to Yarns — Ideas? 🤔 Index a slice of defected media posted? Scraping will obviously take longer …
prologic
twtxt.net
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@adi @lyse Actually searching for images posted is something I want to add to Yarns — Ideas? 🤔 Index a slice of defected media posted? Scraping will obviously take longer …
mckinley
twtxt.net
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I agree. Everybody should have their own website. That's how the Web used to be. The Oatmeal: Reaching people on the internet
mckinley
twtxt.net
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I agree. Everybody should have their own website. That's how the Web used to be. The Oatmeal: Reaching people on the internet
prologic
twtxt.net
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@mckinley Good one! 😂 Not sure if this makes fun of Facebook for censoring things they shouldn’t or advertising or both 😥🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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@mckinley Good one! 😂 Not sure if this makes fun of Facebook for censoring things they shouldn’t or advertising or both 😥🤣
mckinley
twtxt.net
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@prologic I think it's more about "The Algorithm" dictating what people do and do not see. People used to seek out material they wanted to see, now they just scroll through the algorithm-generated feeds of 2-3 websites and hope they find something interesting. It's open to interpretation :)
mckinley
twtxt.net
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@prologic I think it's more about "The Algorithm" dictating what people do and do not see. People used to seek out material they wanted to see, now they just scroll through the algorithm-generated feeds of 2-3 websites and hope they find something interesting. It's open to interpretation :)
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic You're talking about photos directly being included in twts?
prologic
twtxt.net
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@mckinley I think there’s still good utility in a decent non-biased search engine but we are inherently social creatures so I don’t have a problem with scrolling through a non-biased timeline either 😁
prologic
twtxt.net
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@mckinley I think there’s still good utility in a decent non-biased search engine but we are inherently social creatures so I don’t have a problem with scrolling through a non-biased timeline either 😁
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Or linked to yes
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Or linked to yes
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic Alright, following links and trying to scrape the HTML/plain text/whatever for images or detect that the link itself resolves to an image. Details might be tricky, I reckon. Sounds absolutely useful, though!
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Teicky how?
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Teicky how?
eldersnake
yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
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@adi I agree. Kind of the whole IndieWeb thing. Everyone has resigned themselves to "silos", such as FarceBook and its ilk. While I understand the discovery aspect and convenience, the price is far too high. Might not be a monetary price, but a price nonetheless.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic Tricky in the sense of attaching the right keywords to an image.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Would it matter if we just index media as-is and let the slice of media uris be a facet?
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Would it matter if we just index media as-is and let the slice of media uris be a facet?
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic I don't understand what that means.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Me either 😂
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse Me either 😂
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic Well…