# 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 18
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/s23nrcq
Mastodon Gained 70,000 Users After Musk's Twitter Takeover
"More than 70,000 users joined Mastodon on the day after Musk's Twitter takeover announcement," writes Slashdot reader votsalo. "Mastodon is a six-year-old decentralized social media platform that uses 'federated' servers." The Guardian's Wilfred Chan writes: I joined Mastodon this week, and it took a few hours just to master its new vocabulary. Some of it is ... β Read more
@slashdot Damn π³ I _wonder_ how many of those were bots?! π
We (Yarn.social) do a better job of promoting our ecosystem (_note I called it an ecosystem π€£_) -- I _think_ we only had about 0.0001% of that number join Yarn.social / Twtxt π’_
@slashdot Damn π³ I _wonder_ how many of those were bots?! π
We (Yarn.social) do a better job of promoting our ecosystem (_note I called it an ecosystem π€£_) -- I _think_ we only had about 0.0001% of that number join Yarn.social / Twtxt π’_
I only had bad experience with mastodon, twitter is a very active community everybody talks to each other share like. In mastodon each time I go there is a majority of posts without comment or share. It seems to me that is a dead community.
@tkanos Intereating viewpoint π€ -- May I ask then honestly; how you are finding Yarn.social ? π€
@tkanos Intereating viewpoint π€ -- May I ask then honestly; how you are finding Yarn.social ? π€
Dude I m here many times per day , I came here before to go out of bed on the morning and itβs the last thing I see before to close my eyes the night. Do I really have to answer your question?
@tkanos Haha that's awesome and freaky as I do the same π
@tkanos Haha that's awesome and freaky as I do the same π
@prologic I LIKE IT! Despite the fact that I gave up on it for a while, it's beautiful and easy to use. I do not post that much as I did in the past, but still good to write things down from time to time. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
@prologic not that I'm a fan of mastodon, but I'm always blown away by articles like this where someone says
> it took a few hours just to master its new vocabulary.
What? Mastodon looks like a clone of twitter. You "toot" instead of "tweet". There's a Mastodon mascot instead of a bird. The freakin' icons for replying and boosting (which is retweeting if you're keeping score) look the same. They retained the star that twitter used to have for favorites. The learning curve is about as flat as it could possibly be. It took me all of five minutes to get oriented when I joined there. Who are these people who take "hours"?
@eaplmx hmm, could be. My knee-jerk assumption was that many of these people are boomers or boomer equivalents, the kind of people who found email absolutely mystifying for 20 years, but now spend all day forwarding emails about politics or bad jokes to their kids who don't want them.
@eaplmx wow that's surprising to me