# 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 30
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/womrxga
👋 Hello @anx, welcome to twtxt.net, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗
👋 Hello @anx, welcome to twtxt.net, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗
@support Hi! I'm hosting my own twtxt.txt, can I customise my URL to that one?
@anx Not exactly. What are you trying to do exactly? yarnd (the software behind Yarn.social) are essentially multi-user (or single-user) pods (as we wll them) that use twtxt.txt under teh hood.
If you already host your own twtxt.txt (we call a feed) I'm not sure why you need an account on my pod? 😅 (unless you want to of course!)
Also welcome to Yarn.social 🤗
@anx Not exactly. What are you trying to do exactly? yarnd (the software behind Yarn.social) are essentially multi-user (or single-user) pods (as we wll them) that use twtxt.txt under teh hood.
If you already host your own twtxt.txt (we call a feed) I'm not sure why you need an account on my pod? 😅 (unless you want to of course!)
Also welcome to Yarn.social 🤗
@prologic I apologise, I'm new to this, probably mixing the concepts by now... I see some users that when I click on their Twtxt link it takes me to their self-hosted twtxt.txt.
@anx You should follow your self hosted feed at /feeds so this pod becomes aware of that feed. That should make it so new posts are displayed on the global Discover feed.
@anx Irs okay 🤗 I'm a bit confused too 🤦♂️
@anx Irs okay 🤗 I'm a bit confused too 🤦♂️
@anx I guess one thing to keep in mind is we're building out support for "sync" a local feed twtxt.txt on disk somewhere with a feed you may have on a pod, like the one you have here. If that makes sense? Would that be of interest to you?
@anx I guess one thing to keep in mind is we're building out support for "sync" a local feed twtxt.txt on disk somewhere with a feed you may have on a pod, like the one you have here. If that makes sense? Would that be of interest to you?
@anx @prologic O-o, you are? That would be great, really. I have been pondering about replacing my locally hosted feed by this one by cron'ing a wget or something like that...
@anx @prologic O-o, you are? That would be great, really. I have been pondering about replacing my locally hosted feed by this one by cron'ing a wget or something like that...
@marado Yes! It's a planned feature, we'll likely get it done in yarn v0.15 (next milestone). cc @tkanos who I _think_ was working on this very feature 🤗
@marado Yes! It's a planned feature, we'll likely get it done in yarn v0.15 (next milestone). cc @tkanos who I _think_ was working on this very feature 🤗
@mckinley Thank you! You even better described what I wanted to achieve :D
@anx we can always follow both of your personas! It's quite a common thing around here 😆
@anx we can always follow both of your personas! It's quite a common thing around here 😆
@prologic From a little that I understand about this, wouldn’t that make people discovering duplicated posts? One coming from original local and another entry synced to a local feed in twtxt.net.
@anx Not according to the #url part of the Metadata spec. We consider the first # url = to be the URI used to form the Twt Hash. So if this is the same in both feeds (for example) with identical content and timestamps, they should hash the same.
What we don't do however is trust the url field at all.
@anx Not according to the #url part of the Metadata spec. We consider the first # url = to be the URI used to form the Twt Hash. So if this is the same in both feeds (for example) with identical content and timestamps, they should hash the same.
What we don't do however is trust the url field at all.
@prologic Oh that is neat. Thank you for your patience clearing these basic doubts.
@anx when i first joined it took me a bit to understand the overal spec of twtxt as well as how yarnd works. what worked best for me was mentally purging how fediverse or centralised social and microblog platforms work. reading through the code helped a bit but ultimately if you need assistance most are ready to answer questions.
welcome
@anx We're very happy to hear that and we're here to help you any time! 🤗
@anx We're very happy to hear that and we're here to help you any time! 🤗
@anx it's a small place, but full of richness and good folks