Published 2025-02-03
tag(s): #emacs #smallweb
Via the Planet Emacs, I found a post about HispaConf, which in turn led me to another post, in Spanish, about Twtxt, a decentralized plain-text alternative to Twitter.
I am surprised I didn't hear about this before! It seems the kind of thing I would enjoy. There's even an Emacs client, twtxt-el. Who knows, maybe in the coming days I setup a "feed", meaning, just a plain text file in my server.
The one thing I find disappointing about this thing, is that it uses some sort of API and hosted server approach for so called "registries". It would have been nice for registries to be just a bunch of text files with URLs to the Twtxt feeds, and have all the hashtag search logic in the clients (maybe I will find other registry features that required a server, and haven't seen yet).
The official spec for twtxt is located here.