@prologic@twtxt.net I think it happens more, and more, while on mobile. I use iCloud Private Relay, if that helps.

Now, don’t misunderstand me. With all the perceived drawbacks/flaws I listed, Yarn works. Could it be much better? For sure. But it works. :-D

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Not bad, maybe let’s go back to 98.css. 😃

@bender@twtxt.net It feels like the current cycle has been going on for a very long time now, almost 20 years. 😩 But I might be wrong here, maybe it started later.

@eapl.me@eapl.me you wrote:

I don’t use Yarn/Twtxt.net anymore, although I read the homepage a few times a week to catchup on anything interesting.

Then you do use it, no? Right? :-D

I barely twt from my PHP instance.

Because PHP sucks! See what I did? I am “encouraging” engagement! :-D

… it’s too superficial to have a meaningful conversation.

Microblogging is often the antithesis of meaningful. You talk about everything, and anything you want. Even to the void. You have done it!

Yarn is niche. With it’s forks, and yarns, it comes across as a “weird” microblogging for some (weird was the word a friend from Philippines used to refer to Yarn). The UI/UX has issues (I am not an expert, but I would say copying “the others” and slightly adjusting to give Yarn it’s own uniqueness should work), and that keeps people away. The cache blows, I want to be able to see everything, at all times. The built-in search blows, I want a more “ala Google” kind of search. There is more, but you get the gist.

@prologic@twtxt.net standing up Mastodon isn’t that much complicated. It is just a little bit more demanding than Yarn, that’s all.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org “looking forward to the next weekend”; I see what you did there! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de fear not! We know we are animals that do things on cycles. We also copy each other. What’s old becomes new, over and over. It is bound to end… eventually.

I am not fond of it either.

@prologic@twtxt.net and by “y’all” you meant eapl, right? I noticed that too, and LOLed IRL. 🤣

Is this “flat UI” madness ever going to end? I’m beginning to lose hope.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Of course, those shitheads. 🤣 (Doesn’t really make a difference in practice, luckily. There aren’t that many of them.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah improvements should roll out much more quickly than I can by hand 🤣

I just think it’s hilarious that y’all say you don’t use Yarn / twtxt.net in one breath, but in the same you say you frequently visited the frontpage of twtxt.net to catch up on stuff 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Okay, so no “fire hose” 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Speaking of which, can we make any obvious (low hanging fruit) improvements here? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks mate, looking forward to the next weekend. :-) It appears I’m just in time with this tiny usability improvement: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/search/pulls/22

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you. :-( Flight tickets are way too cheap. I’m also astonished, that night flying restrictions don’t apply for politicians. Of course.

@prologic@twtxt.net I believe that only a search box on the front page is better. Just like it is now. I still haven’t got used to the advanced options, but that’s an entirely different story.

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you do. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oof ouch! 😱

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, they’re approaching three (!) parallel runways, directly above me. 😞 (The early days of Covid were super quiet and peaceful.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Live in a flight path? 🤔

Of all the retro OSes that I’ve got running, SuSE 6.4 is clearly the most powerful one. It comes with a ton of software and development tools. Windows 2000, which was released around the same time, is basically “empty” in comparison.

But of course, none of that mattered. No popular software, no adoption. 😅 And yes, things like configuring the X server were stupid hard back then.

Damn those fucking planes and their noise.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Is self hosting an instance (Yarn or Mastodon) just too hard for most? 🤔 I know standing up ‘as to don is a biatch for sure 🤣

Haha 🤣 No worries! Maune that use-case can move to the search engine / crawler? 🤔

How do we all feel about a “fire hose” front page on https://search.twtxt.net/ ? 🤔

@adi@twtxt.net I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.

Well, I don’t use Yarn/Twtxt.net anymore, although I read the homepage a few times a week to catchup on anything interesting.

Nowadays I barely twt from my PHP instance. I got to say that is more “convenient” reading from twtxt.net that on my instance.

My current feeling is that is too niche to find something interesting, being about personal growth, professional or even entertaining. There is not enough people and/or interesting topics to be engaged on. The network effect of people making content is missing IMO. Although I have a similar feeling of any other microblogging, it’s too superficial to have a meaningful conversation.
Sadly in this ecosystem I’ve found no one twting on Spanish, and having conversations in English is not so easy to me.

And about local communities, I tried to invite friends and colleagues, but no one created their instance or joined to Yarn. Even the local Mastodon instance has 3 members (myself included), so I think creating a hipster microblogging is not as easy as looked at the start.

It’s again a decision between the involved time and the ‘reward’ at the end. If we are not getting good emotions or something bigger that ourselves, feels like ‘not worthy’ to belong.

Since I finally configured X11 in this VM for shenanigans …

The original tuXeyes running in a SuSE Linux 6.4 VM and my clone from 2017 (which does not depend on a now ancient version of Qt):

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I feel blessed already! :-P

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I don’t follow (yet). That’s certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!

Indeed, I do that as well.

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you! :-)

@bender@twtxt.net Let’s hope your life quality will improve with that single purpose tool. :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net Heck yeah, grats!

@prologic@twtxt.net Like @movq@www.uninformativ.de said, it is a very niche thing. But that has always been a good thing in my opinion. And I do still think so. :-)

yarnd in particular is too heavy for me personally, I just like the simplicity of wacking a file on my server and voilà. But other than that, I still support that software. :-)

And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I don’t follow (yet). That’s certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!

@Anthony_Sorace@a.9srv.net Why not Go?

Started writing something from scratch yesterday using thread(3) and wow do I miss writing in Limbo instead. :-/ #plan9

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org To me it sounds just like Stairway to Heaven played backwards. :D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I love it! Wish there were words like those in English! 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net Congratz! 🥳

Whoo! 🥳 I won 2 of my 3 singles tonight! 🏓

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org My goodness, you have feet of steel. 😅 Yay, geese!

@bender@twtxt.net To quote from the german version of ISO 27001:

Änderungen an Informationsverarbeitungseinrichtungen und Informationssystemen sollten Gegenstand von Änderungsmanagementverfahren sein.

Fuck off, you cunts. 🤣🖕

Having slept for only 2 hours, I truly feel like, well, someone who has only slept 2 hours. 🤭 Can’t wait for lunch time to take a small nap.

Today I learned about “eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher”, and one is coming my way from Amazon. 😂

@mckinley@twtxt.net 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net Both are very nice in my opinion. I don’t think you could make a mistake with either, at least when it comes to looks.

@bender@twtxt.net I’ll wait a while before doing something. For now I’ve unfollowed.

@prologic@twtxt.net, this is spam.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lovely😅