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anth
a.9srv.net
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My finger server now includes the last post from tw that doesn't have a subject. 'finger a@9srv.net'
anth
a.9srv.net
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My finger server now includes the last post from tw that doesn't have a subject. 'finger a@9srv.net'
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth how do you envisage this playing out and evolving overtime?
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth how do you envisage this playing out and evolving overtime?
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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@anth how do you envisage this playing out and evolving overtime?
anth
a.9srv.net
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With the finger server specifically? No idea, it's a toy. I'd honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.
anth
a.9srv.net
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With the finger server specifically? No idea, it's a toy. I'd honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.
anth
a.9srv.net
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I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.
anth
a.9srv.net
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I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth yeah with the finger service specifically. Several folks have brought up the idea of using a plan file and finger but of course this means that you actually have to have a finger diamond and local user accounts for this to be useful unless you’re thinking about building a custom finger server implementation entirely
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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@anth yeah with the finger service specifically. Several folks have brought up the idea of using a plan file and finger but of course this means that you actually have to have a finger diamond and local user accounts for this to be useful unless you’re thinking about building a custom finger server implementation entirely
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth yeah with the finger service specifically. Several folks have brought up the idea of using a plan file and finger but of course this means that you actually have to have a finger diamond and local user accounts for this to be useful unless you’re thinking about building a custom finger server implementation entirely
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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@anth i’m just not sure how useful it would be for me per se
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth i’m just not sure how useful it would be for me per se
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth i’m just not sure how useful it would be for me per se
anth
a.9srv.net
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No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it'd be fun to add, but doesn't replace anything you're doing.
anth
a.9srv.net
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No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it'd be fun to add, but doesn't replace anything you're doing.
prologic
twtxt.net
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Yeah that's what I was thinking about... The "utility" of finger itself. I mean in a large multi-user pod it _might_ be useful? Maybe 🤔 But then against that notion goes against everything I've come to learn, know and believe about "social media". That is... It doesn't scale beyond a certain "size". So keep pods small 🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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Yeah that's what I was thinking about... The "utility" of finger itself. I mean in a large multi-user pod it _might_ be useful? Maybe 🤔 But then against that notion goes against everything I've come to learn, know and believe about "social media". That is... It doesn't scale beyond a certain "size". So keep pods small 🤣
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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Yeah that's what I was thinking about... The "utility" of finger itself. I mean in a large multi-user pod it _might_ be useful? Maybe 🤔 But then against that notion goes against everything I've come to learn, know and believe about "social media". That is... It doesn't scale beyond a certain "size". So keep pods small 🤣
anth
a.9srv.net
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I don't think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.
anth
a.9srv.net
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I don't think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth Oh I see what you're saying... Go on... What kind of fun things can we do with finger? I could build one and we could see? 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth Oh I see what you're saying... Go on... What kind of fun things can we do with finger? I could build one and we could see? 🤔
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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@anth Oh I see what you're saying... Go on... What kind of fun things can we do with finger? I could build one and we could see? 🤔
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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It's a very simple protocol afterall 🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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It's a very simple protocol afterall 🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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It's a very simple protocol afterall 🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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Speaking of finger:\n\n
\n$ finger anth@a.9srv.net\n[a.9srv.net]\nNo such user anth.\n
\n\nPoo 💩 🤣 I'm guessing anth is not your username on that server?! 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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Speaking of finger:


$ finger anth@a.9srv.net
[a.9srv.net]
No such user anth.


Poo 💩 🤣 I'm guessing anth is not your username on that server?! 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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Speaking of finger:


$ finger anth@a.9srv.net
[a.9srv.net]
No such user anth.


Poo 💩 🤣 I'm guessing anth is not your username on that server?! 🤔
prologic@twtxt.net
twtxt.net
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Speaking of finger:\n\n
\n$ finger anth@a.9srv.net\n[a.9srv.net]\nNo such user anth.\n
\n\nPoo 💩 🤣 I'm guessing anth is not your username on that server?! 🤔
anth
a.9srv.net
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Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger's poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed 's/\\./@/'
anth
a.9srv.net
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Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger's poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed 's/\./@/'
anth
a.9srv.net
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Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger's poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed 's/\./@/'
anth
a.9srv.net
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Huh. In my feed, there is (correctly) a backslash before that . in the sed command, but twtxt.net is stripping it.
anth
a.9srv.net
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Huh. In my feed, there is (correctly) a backslash before that . in the sed command, but twtxt.net is stripping it.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth Ahh 🤣
prologic
twtxt.net
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@anth Ahh 🤣