# 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 9
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/thdjejq
Android is Google Windows. I don't know why people get excited about it.
@abucci What makes you say this? 🤔 (not that I'm a big fan of Android or anything...)
@abucci What makes you say this? 🤔 (not that I'm a big fan of Android or anything...)
@prologic Microsoft is (was?) a large monopoly that uses (used?) its operating system to control the software industry to its own ends, users be damned. If there was ever a time when their offering was of value to people, they gave up any pretense of maintaining and improving that long ago.
Google is a large unaccountable monopoly that uses its operating system to control the software industry to its own ends, users be damned. If there was ever a time when their offering was of value to people, they gave up any pretense of maintaining and improving that long ago.
There was a time when Microsoft was nearly broken up by regulators for this behavior, but the US doesn't fix any of its problems anymore so Google has been able to persist longer without repercussions.
@abucci Yeah okay...
And what about Google using its powerful might and monopoly to pay Mozilla Firefox, Apple and others to be the no. 1 search engine (default/) in their products? I mean c'mon ! 🤦♂️ When will these fucking useless ass politicians cry afoul and stop this already. It harms competition.
Oh wait... They're making money of this, and being bribe (I mean lobbied?) So hmmm 🤔
@abucci Yeah okay...
And what about Google using its powerful might and monopoly to pay Mozilla Firefox, Apple and others to be the no. 1 search engine (default/) in their products? I mean c'mon ! 🤦♂️ When will these fucking useless ass politicians cry afoul and stop this already. It harms competition.
Oh wait... They're making money of this, and being bribe (I mean lobbied?) So hmmm 🤔
@prologic I've had Android cell phones since I think Android 6? I'm on Android 11 now. I hate each new version that comes out more than I hated the last. They take more and more power away from you as a user by crippling the underlying linux-derived operating system, they amp up the surveillance capabilities, and they privilege their own apps more and more. Exactly how Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer. It's literally the same playbook.