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> The value proposition of twtxt is that it's stupid easy to "add" to your server while being good enough to be used for 80% of what you'd use Twitter or Mastod
by monkin 6y ago
> The value proposition of twtxt is that it's stupid easy to "add" to your server while being good enough to be used for 80% of what you'd use Twitter or Mastodon for.
Maybe for HN users, but not for most of the everyday internet users. Something that people here tend to forget. :)
- cxr 6y agoI see my postscript about imagined subtexts wasn't helpful. That HNers and programmers in general live in a filter bubble is not something I forget about at all. I've encountered my share of opposition for pointing this out, in fact. What's more is that this conversation is happening in a context—and it's a context where I explicitly made a reference to "twtxt['s] target audience". In comparison to setting up a Mastodon server, or getting Twitter to add support for ActivityPub, dropping a file somewhere is easy. So I don't really like quips like this. They're glib. As a person actually working on trying to fix the problem of computing being needlessly esoteric, I consider it to probably be harmful to that end, not helpful.