@bender@twtxt.net I taught the whole ecosystem š
@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me The question I was asked the most was: How do I discover people?
Someone came up with a fantastic idea, instead of adding the new twt at the end of the feed, do it at the beginning. So you can paginate by cutting the request every few lines.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev and how will that help ādiscover peopleā? I am missing something, I am sure, as I donāt 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, āfollowsā, etc.
@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 āword of mouthā of human exchanges of communications.
Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
Iād like to change that. Itās by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesnāt have to be hacky all the time, as you donāt 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 donāt want that, unless you are a āpublic figureā.
I couldnāt say that a microblogging is a āsocial networkā by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as youād 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 donāt, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of āYour āfollowingsā are following these accounts/peopleā. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
- Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying āHey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discoveredā. Iām thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.
@eapl.me@eapl.me you wrote, partially:
āIād like to change that. Itās by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these.ā
I wish you well, and good luck! š