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Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text. (discuss.online)

submitted 2 months ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40941829

Details at https://twtxt.dev/ and elsewhere. This has been in development since 2016. All you do is create a txt file in www or html and include info like
# nick        = username
# url         = https://example.com/posts.txt
# avatar      = https://example.com/avatar.png
# description = Describe this
to then begin posting using a command like like

echo -e "$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')\tHello to all of you out there! >> posts.txt

There are various registries and places you can submit your user via curl to become more discoverable by others. Also tons of spin-offs that add support for fancier markdown and such, but haven't tried those yet.

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[–] kiol@discuss.online 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You simply host the txt file. It doesn't get more decentralized, to the point that centralization is the tricky part here.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then you follow/subscribe other peoples feeds? And your client fetches them? but theres no such thing as a "global feed"?

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago

It is simply a line of text, so you could always relay it into whatever system. Did you see the example where people have made it into a multi-user version on same server? https://twtxt.net/ There are also relays you can submit to to centralize.