# 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 24
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/wxpxwia
Sorry what’s this server-side tagging BS?! 🤦♂️😳
Sorry what’s this server-side tagging BS?! 🤦♂️😳
@adi That thread is too long now 🤣 What did I miss? 🤔
@adi That thread is too long now 🤣 What did I miss? 🤔
@prologic 1st and 2nd comment describe server side tracking.
@prologic 1st and 2nd comment describe server side tracking.
The moment when, to my displeasure, I discovered server-side tagging. Looks like we got some more circumvention to work on, people.
I want to figure out how to determine who has implemented this technology on their web servers and forever boycott them thereafter. I'm going to begin practicing a no-javascript policy, with exception of select few websites, and closing unnecessary accounts, even at the cost of convenience.
I really am beginning to think it is also imperative that we ween ourselves off our web dependency and go back to basics (i.e. pre-2007 computing and life).
@stutteringsteve Pre-2007? What made you choose this particular year? (Was this when smartphones became a thing?)
@stutteringsteve Pre-2007? What made you choose this particular year? (Was this when smartphones became a thing?)
@stutteringsteve Pre-2007? What made you choose this particular year? (Was this when smartphones became a thing?)
@adi The beginning of the smartphone (iPhone).
@movq Precisely! 2007, with the introduction of smartphones, was the very beginning of, in my opinion, the software and hardware industry's decline; from user-hostile interfaces and planned obsolescence, to boundless tracking and everything in between. They really began to rear their ugly heads sometime after 2012, when flatness and bright colors became the stylistic standard across tech. I believe the rise of this stylistic standard has been tech's attempt to seem (disingenuously) innocuous at face value while hiding their true intentions.
@stutteringsteve Yeah, it’s very frustrating. They (Apple and Google, making the smartphones) had the opportunity to create a new eco system *without* all the old baggage like “you can install any operating system on this machine”. They had the chance to create gilded cages, and they did. Now we’re stuck with this stuff and people ridicule projects like the PinePhone. Sigh. Personally, I’ll just continue to boycot smartphones (I just use them as *phones*), but I’m afraid that won’t work much longer.
@stutteringsteve Yeah, it’s very frustrating. They (Apple and Google, making the smartphones) had the opportunity to create a new eco system *without* all the old baggage like “you can install any operating system on this machine”. They had the chance to create gilded cages, and they did. Now we’re stuck with this stuff and people ridicule projects like the PinePhone. Sigh. Personally, I’ll just continue to boycot smartphones (I just use them as *phones*), but I’m afraid that won’t work much longer.
@stutteringsteve Yeah, it’s very frustrating. They (Apple and Google, making the smartphones) had the opportunity to create a new eco system *without* all the old baggage like “you can install any operating system on this machine”. They had the chance to create gilded cages, and they did. Now we’re stuck with this stuff and people ridicule projects like the PinePhone. Sigh. Personally, I’ll just continue to boycot smartphones (I just use them as *phones*), but I’m afraid that won’t work much longer.
@adi I read the comments but I stil don’t get it 😳 Can someone explain this while server side tagging like I’m 5?
@adi I read the comments but I stil don’t get it 😳 Can someone explain this while server side tagging like I’m 5?