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> there really oughta be a text-only implementation of mastodon or one of the other fediverse ecosystems Something like this that I know of, in a very simplifi
by codetrotter 4y ago
> there really oughta be a text-only implementation of mastodon or one of the other fediverse ecosystems
Something like this that I know of, in a very simplified form.
> twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
> So you want to get some thoughts out on the internet in a convenient and slick way while also following the gibberish of others? Instead of signing up at a closed and/or regulated microblogging platform, getting your status updates out with twtxt is as easy as putting them in a publicly accessible text file. The URL pointing to this file is your identity, your account. twtxt then tracks these text files, like a feedreader, and builds your unique timeline out of them, depending on which files you track. The format is simple, human readable, and integrates well with UNIX command line utilities.
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
I have used this format a little bit when I first found out about it. But haven’t felt like adding any more entries to my twtxt file beyond the ones that I added to it in the first couple of days of having set it up.
- kseistrup 4y agoWarning: People using twtxt seem to be adding feeds indiscriminately so that they will follow your feed several years after you announced it as gone. HTTP response codes like “404 Not Found“ and “410 Gone” will not make them stop.
- aabbcc1241 4y agoThat seems fixable if we were to build a new client / protocol
- aliqot 4y agoyou now have 15 protocols
- aabbcc1241 4y agoApreche suggested that ActivityPub is text (json) only already so we can avoid the 19th protocol :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34805222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34805222
- fragmede 4y agoGive it a bit longer, and we'll just be able to say "927", and everyone will know what you mean. But for now, https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- codetrotter 4y agoI recognise the quote every time. But I do not plan on learning the individual numbers of any of the xkcd strips. Recognising the quotes is enough for me.
- fragmede 4y agoNine-hundred and twenty seven. (Un)fortunately for you, human memory and cognition is weird. 927. So by the time you reach this sentence in comment, the number 900, which is Yoda's age in the original Star Wars, plus the number 27, which is 3 cubed, as well as the name of the "27-club", will have appeared three times if you count my previous comment. That number, 927, should stick out in your brain as being the number for the XKCD strip about standards. It's possible that the mnemonic, and the repetition is enough for that number to permanently lodge itself in your brain. Or not.
- codetrotter 4y agoBro is hacking brain memories via HN comments now :sweating:
- actionfromafar 4y agoI propose a new protocol, xkcd://<comic nr> Such as xkcd://927
- omoikane 4y agoThat reminds me of the story where prisoners tell each other jokes by number: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor/c/Pu-ZIoTMk7U https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor/c/Pu-ZIoTMk7U
- jerf 4y agoThe current protocol already has a perfectly clean "this has gone away forever, stop checking" result code, and it is being ignored. What will a new client or protocol do to fix that?