https://twtxt.dev/exts/metadata.html#nick
It doesn’t say much. 🤔
In the wild, I’ve only seen “traditional” nick names, i.e. ASCII 0x21 thru 0x7E.
My client removes anything but
r'[a-zA-Z0-9]' from nick names.
nicks? i remember reading somewhere whitespace should not be allowed, but i don't see it in the spec on twtxt.dev — in fact, are there any other resources on twtxt extensions outside of twtxt.dev?
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If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they don't have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.
As for the school of thought, personally, I'd prefer something else, too. I'm in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.
yarnd does have a well documented API and two clients (CLI and unmaintained Flutter App)
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regular end users wont care to understand how twt hashes are formed, they just want to use twtxt! so i guess i could work in protecting users from themselves by disallowing post edits on old posts or posts with replies, but i'm not fond of this either really. if they want to break a thread, they can just delete the post (though i've noticed yarn handling post deletes dubiously...)
on activitypub i do genuinely find myself looking through several month or even year old posts sometimes and deciding to edit/reword them a little to be slightly less confusing, this should be trivial to handle on twtxt which is an infinitely simpler specification
nick is nick bc it is parsed as a nickname just for the instance, though calling it instance_nick would probably be less confusing
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{
"nick": "Example",
"description": "alice's twtxt instance!",
"host": "twtxt.example.com",
"admin": "alice"
}
Would it make more sense changing
nick to instance_name or similar? Usually nick is reserved for users, like here, quark. Right? Also, is host the same FQDN to be used while proxying traffic to the application? That is, using the above configuration, it's Caddy configuration would be:
twtxt.example.com {
encode
reverse_proxy :31212
}
Is that correct?
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Well, breaking threads on edits is considered a feature by some people. I reckon the only approach to reasonably deal with that property is to carefully review messages before publishing them, thus delaying feed updates. Any typos etc., that have been discovered afterwards, are just left alone. That's what I and some others do. I only risk editing if the feed has been published very few seconds earlier. More than 20 seconds and I just ignore it. Works alright for the most part.
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A lot of HN comments are like this – in general, I mean, not only regarding my blog posts.
I’m not even angry, I’m just genuinely confused. 😂 The blog post in question isn’t a rant to begin with. Are those comments bots to drive engagement? Is this humor that I don’t understand? Is the person being serious?
What motivates people do post such comments? What’s going on here?
This is very, very weird to me.
(I don’t use HN, I just notice it by the increased load on the server.)
i'm pretty sure the timezone is stripped off the offset correctly (
2025-09-14T12:45:00+02:00 → 2025-09-14T12:45:00Z) though messing with how the hash is generated i can't get it to make one that matches...but all other hashes for all other feeds seem to be correct? does yarn use a different canonical url for lyse internally? is there a bug in the libraries im using? bwehhh
edit: i read the spec wrong :3 only +/-00:00 is stripped, not the entire timezone offset >.<
i skimmed through discussions under other the proposals — i agree humans are very bad at keeping the integrity of the web in tact, but hashes in done in this way make it impossible even for systems to rebuild threads if any post edits have occurred prior to their deployment
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