# 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).
#
# twt range = 1 16
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/s4s3cdq
Back to coding. Back to coding... I need to focus a bit more instead of running into the habit of checking news and reddit and twitter...
@novaburst well put. it's the plague of the internet.
@carsten I'm telling you 🤣 You need only check one thing 🤣 Yarn 😆 Yhere's no shitty algorithms at play to abuse your human psychologist traits to keep coming back and see more shit you did it see before because Yarn.social respects your time, energy and you! 🤗
@carsten I'm telling you 🤣 You need only check one thing 🤣 Yarn 😆 Yhere's no shitty algorithms at play to abuse your human psychologist traits to keep coming back and see more shit you did it see before because Yarn.social respects your time, energy and you! 🤗
@prologic and you can sorta read twitter feeds on yarn anyway @carsten
(i'd rather not)
@novaburst Yes that's right, whilst Twitter™ continue to allow anonymous scraping of Twtter™ feeds, this will continue to be possible.
It would be _better_ though if those Twitter™ feeds decided to jump ship off of the privacy eroding, manipulative garbage that is Twtter™ and come join Yarn.social instead, potentially running their own Pod 🤗
@novaburst Yes that's right, whilst Twitter™ continue to allow anonymous scraping of Twtter™ feeds, this will continue to be possible.
It would be _better_ though if those Twitter™ feeds decided to jump ship off of the privacy eroding, manipulative garbage that is Twtter™ and come join Yarn.social instead, potentially running their own Pod 🤗
@prologic or Mastodon't at the very least, lol
@prologic That's one of the reasons I never had any kind of social account before Yarn.social (except LinkedIn for work 😏).
I immediately log out on any site when I'm done using it and always go incognito for everything so the most pages won't have a recollection of my activity on them.
Also, I think you should add Medium to the list. 🙃
@prologic But still, it's kinda sad that most platforms meant to connect people are designed just to earn money or slowly becomes like that once they grow and the owners change plans or someone else aquire them for that reason.
I guess the niche projects are the one that can manage to keep being what they where intended for.
Maybe designing them so it's impossible to make profit is the way to go?
Not sure myself 🤔
@justamoment That's precisely what we're doing with Yarn.social -- Make it hard to abuse, make it hard to profit off, make it hard to block, make it hard to censor.
I strongly believe in openness and transparency when it comes to social media and we try to make things behave as they would analogously as if you were sitting around a campfire or Yarning circle (look it up!) and having a conversation (a Yarn :D)
The most important thing though, is to ensure we have good documentation and specifications. yarnd is just (now) one of many clients. 👌
@justamoment That's precisely what we're doing with Yarn.social -- Make it hard to abuse, make it hard to profit off, make it hard to block, make it hard to censor.
I strongly believe in openness and transparency when it comes to social media and we try to make things behave as they would analogously as if you were sitting around a campfire or Yarning circle (look it up!) and having a conversation (a Yarn :D)
The most important thing though, is to ensure we have good documentation and specifications. yarnd is just (now) one of many clients. 👌
@prologic That's right!
Probably the decentralized approach is the best for connecting with who you care and the worse to torment users with ads and other strange things. 😄
Hope to see more in the future.