# 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 23
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://tfurrows.com/twtxt.txt&offset=23
Deleted my mastodon account. That took about 2 seconds, and zero hassle. What a difference over the mainline social media outlets!
Finally doing a 6502 project, and finally learning some asm!
Been a long while since I've worked hard on a focused, long-term topic of study. It's too easy to get info, and it makes me tend toward laziness. I think I will go somewhere with that thought.
Day two of deep-cleaning (full disassembly) of a 1989 mechanical keyboard.
I have a script for writing twtxt and a script for reading a few folks that are in my space. What remains is to find a great way to reach out to other folks not in my space. I guess I could start with the folks that I see referenced.
Just had a tornado drill, the kind with cell phone warnings. Always interesting.
I have yet to figure out a solid way to make twtxt a two-way communication method. Probably because I'm recalcitrant.
Still searching for the meaning of social media. I prefer BBSes, to be honest. And letters. And email.
(re: twtxt formts) I see the twt subject ext provides for human readable or a hash... that's a nice thing.
@movq (#) thanks for the links/info. I had two questions, one about the machine-parsable stuff, and another about the metadata that people put in their twtxt files; you answered both :)
also, does 140 characters count all the chars used when you @ someone?
'longer status updates are technically possible but discouraged' ... usually when I see 'discouraged' in the context of rules, I view it as an invitation to do whatever I want. I appreciate that the guidance is there, and accept that clients can certainly do what they want, but short form restrictions irritate me, so I'm glad it's only 'discouraged'!
All the extra stuff people put in their twtxt files... is there a standard for that? I don't see anything in the spec about notes, but I like what people are doing.
Discovered a user via my web logs, added them to my feed list. Easy enough.
It's tempting to talk a lot about twtxt as a technology, versus using the technology to talk about life.
So, the 140 character paradigm is totally optional on here, right?
at present, my plan is to scan through my weblog and see if I see anyone I know passing over their user-agent. Then, keeping a look out on gopher for twtxt folks, and perhaps mentioning it here and there.
<-- where did that tag come from?
@sysdharma the ad companies want us to lie down and accept their aggressions
@prologic I'm just using a bash script for a client right now... I'm hoping I got the curl user-agent part right.
This registries thing looks interesting, but I'm still not entirely sure how to find people to follow.
Now I just need to re-learn twtxt
Moving to a new twtxt file... welcome!