# 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 12
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/zwhvoea
Really, it won’t be long until I give the world the finger and move everything behind Gopher or Gemini. It’ll be a while until the bots find me there.
Really, it won’t be long until I give the world the finger and move everything behind Gopher or Gemini. It’ll be a while until the bots find me there.
@movq Don't worry, this hype will end as quickly as the last one haha 🤣
@movq How many? All of them!
My goodness, what assholes. Reacting based on the User-Agent might just work. For now.
Another wave of tens of thousands of hints by the same bot on the same file:
https://movq.de/v/61f8d39d2f/s.png
There’s probably a simple explanation for this: Maybe this bot was written with “AI” and it’s simply complete garbage.
This isn’t a serious threat for my low-profile website – yet. Can’t wait for this to get worse …
Another wave of tens of thousands of hints by the same bot on the same file:
https://movq.de/v/61f8d39d2f/s.png
There’s probably a simple explanation for this: Maybe this bot was written with “AI” and it’s simply complete garbage.
This isn’t a serious threat for my low-profile website – yet. Can’t wait for this to get worse …
Here’s an interesting thought/angle on this topic:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1
> A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organization—Tencent [4]. I'm seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.
Here’s an interesting thought/angle on this topic:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1
> A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organization—Tencent [4]. I'm seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.