buckket

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by buckket 6y ago
Depends on what we’re talking about exactly. I’ve created twtxt (the format specification as well as the reference client) a few years back. Many other clients and compatible tools followed provided by other contributors. Sadly prologic cho
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by buckket 11y ago
Great to see the ecosystem grow! You should register a somewhat short & clear domain and run a public instance! Or is it up to someone else to provide that service? BTW: Someone registered twtxt.org, maybe that's a good place to pr
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by buckket 11y ago
Cool, added a link to it in twtxt’s README.
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by buckket 11y ago
Funny thinking about it, but no. It's just a combination of "twitter" and "txt".
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by buckket 11y ago
This is nice as long as nobody changes old status updates. Thought about using If-Modified-Since to at least reduce the load when nothing has changed at all. But still: It will definitely take some time till a "twtxt timeline" cau
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by buckket 11y ago
Yes, should be possible. But then again you would have to specify an ordering, i.e. are newer status updates at the top or at the bottom.
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by buckket 11y ago
Yes, because there is no difference between an @reply and an ordinary tweet. Not technically at least. It’s just text. But implementing a filter on your side should be trivial if that’s what you want. Maybe I’ll implement something which ma
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by buckket 11y ago
Yes, it’s up to each user how he names the URLs he’s following. This makes it hard to implement global @replies, therefore there’s no recommend way of handling those at the moment. You could just write "@<NICK>:" and hope th
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by buckket 11y ago
It’s simpler, but it shares similarities, no doubt.
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by buckket 11y ago
I guess most of the time being "successful" is not the point.
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by buckket 11y ago
Yeah, sounds great in the first place, but then again you’d have to consider how one would implement such a list without the need of registering an account or something of that sort. My friends and I are basically sharing our followings pub
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Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers(github.com)
154 points by buckket 11y ago|65 comments