@andros@twtxt.andros.dev and how will that help ā€œdiscover peopleā€? I am missing something, I am sure, as I donā€™t understand.

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds. So one would script a way to often (and/or ongoing) check your web server logs for new mentions, ā€œfollowsā€, etc.

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@bender@twtxt.net I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to easily discovers others except through social interactions and a sort of ā€œword of mouthā€ of human exchanges of communications.

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Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
Iā€™d like to change that. Itā€™s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesnā€™t have to be hacky all the time, as you donā€™t need to be a nerd to have a blog.
But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others
Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you donā€™t want that, unless you are a ā€˜public figureā€™.
I couldnā€™t say that a microblogging is a ā€œsocial networkā€ by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as youā€™d do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

  • Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you donā€™t, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of ā€œYour ā€˜followingsā€™ are following these accounts/peopleā€. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  • Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying ā€œHey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discoveredā€. Iā€™m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

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@eapl.me@eapl.me you wrote, partially:

ā€œIā€™d like to change that. Itā€™s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these.ā€

I wish you well, and good luck! šŸ˜…

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