# 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 3
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/v6ikhra
@movq idk, that sounds pretty hostile to me. The very first responses are to say "if there's TLS it's not gopher", and to post a rant against using TLS at all.
The first exhibits territorialism and gatekeeping, which is by definition hostile. It's also dismissive.
The second comes clean that they are posting a rant, and rants are hostile to an idea/set of ideas.
Not hostile in the sense that they are going to show up at your house and do violence. Hostile in the sense that they've made very clear that this question is not, in their opinions, worth considering.
Personally, I've left communities that had too many people exhibiting behavior like that. Life's too short to waste time with people who act that way.
Hiltjo's response, as you note, is not hostile, and feels welcoming. It treats the question as worth answering and provides information. It'd be nice if the first two people who responded simply hadn't, and Hiltjo's response was the first.
@abucci Thank you! 🙏 I've had a couple of folks make me think I _might_ have overreacted, but your reply reminds me that I did not. You're absolutely spot on, the thread did get "shot down" and the discussions (or lack thereof) did quickly become "hostile" in my view. I _really_ felt like I stirred up a hornets nest back there 🤦♂️
@abucci Thank you! 🙏 I've had a couple of folks make me think I _might_ have overreacted, but your reply reminds me that I did not. You're absolutely spot on, the thread did get "shot down" and the discussions (or lack thereof) did quickly become "hostile" in my view. I _really_ felt like I stirred up a hornets nest back there 🤦♂️