# 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 10
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/spvgguq
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Or folks could choose to not host their feeds over inferior protocols 😂

It isn't just the User-Agent that doesn't work either, Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since, Range requests, HEAD and so on 🤣 You know useful things 🤦‍♂️
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Or folks could choose to not host their feeds over inferior protocols 😂

It isn't just the User-Agent that doesn't work either, Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since, Range requests, HEAD and so on 🤣 You know useful things 🤦‍♂️
fastidious
arrakis.netbros.com
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@prologic this is you now 😂:
Playing with a beehive
prologic
twtxt.net
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@fastidious Bahahahah I _hope_ anyone knows I wasn't being serious, I was jesting of course 😂 But in all seriousness though both gopher:// and gemini:// are "crippled" protocols in my opinion, and that's fine, they were designed that way. Just don't expect us to bend over backwards to support things like:

- Who fetched my feed
- Please only fetch me if I've actually changed
- Please just fetch from where you were last at
- Do I even exist?

And so on... 😅
prologic
twtxt.net
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@fastidious Bahahahah I _hope_ anyone knows I wasn't being serious, I was jesting of course 😂 But in all seriousness though both gopher:// and gemini:// are "crippled" protocols in my opinion, and that's fine, they were designed that way. Just don't expect us to bend over backwards to support things like:

- Who fetched my feed
- Please only fetch me if I've actually changed
- Please just fetch from where you were last at
- Do I even exist?

And so on... 😅
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic

> Who fetched my feed

That’s an essential part of forming a social network. The other things are optimizations. So, yes, I do think that there should be *some* kind of “ping, hello I’m here” in twtxt – regardless of protocol.

I’ll try to draft a spec soon-ish. Then we can discuss that and see where we go from there.

For me, minimalism is a core feature of twtxt. Otherwise I could just use Mastodon. So I’d love to see Gopher and Gemini becoming first-class citizens.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic

> Who fetched my feed

That’s an essential part of forming a social network. The other things are optimizations. So, yes, I do think that there should be *some* kind of “ping, hello I’m here” in twtxt – regardless of protocol.

I’ll try to draft a spec soon-ish. Then we can discuss that and see where we go from there.

For me, minimalism is a core feature of twtxt. Otherwise I could just use Mastodon. So I’d love to see Gopher and Gemini becoming first-class citizens.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic

> Who fetched my feed

That’s an essential part of forming a social network. The other things are optimizations. So, yes, I do think that there should be *some* kind of “ping, hello I’m here” in twtxt – regardless of protocol.

I’ll try to draft a spec soon-ish. Then we can discuss that and see where we go from there.

For me, minimalism is a core feature of twtxt. Otherwise I could just use Mastodon. So I’d love to see Gopher and Gemini becoming first-class citizens.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Sure no worries. And I agree, that's why I love Twtxt (_the spec_) as well, it is so simple to work with and build clients, tools, search engines, ecosystems and all sorts of things -- Even if the "components" I'm building are "complex" per se; the protocols/specs used are quite simple 👌
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Sure no worries. And I agree, that's why I love Twtxt (_the spec_) as well, it is so simple to work with and build clients, tools, search engines, ecosystems and all sorts of things -- Even if the "components" I'm building are "complex" per se; the protocols/specs used are quite simple 👌