Hello twtxt
And in the to-simple-to-be-true category…
twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/intro.html
$ twtxt tweet "Is there anybody out there, just nod if you can hear me"
Install twtxt
pip3 install twtxt
Configure twtxt
twtxt config
...
$ cat ~/.config/twtxt/config
[twtxt]
nick = gmj
twtfile = /home/gmj/twtxt.txt
twturl = http://www.port111.com/george/twtxt.txt
disclose_identity = True
character_limit = 140
character_warning = 140
[following]
twtxt = https://buckket.org/twtxt_news.txt
adiabatic = https://www.frogorbits.com/twtxt.txt
beyond = https://enotty.dk/beyond.txt
jcolag = https://john.colagioia.net/twtxt.txt
vain = https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt
prologic = https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
antonio = https://twtxt.net/user/antonio/twtxt.txt
Post some tweets
$ twtxt tweet This is incredible. Simple. Text. Decentralized :-\)
$ twtxt tweet There is life after twitter. http://curious.galthub.com/blog/goodbye-twitter/
$ twtxt tweet Thanks @prologic
Push my twtxt.txt file to the server (dropbox, github, s3 buckets, etc would do…anything with a public URL)
scp twtxt.txt gmj@port111.com:~/public_html/george/twtxt.txt
Follow someone:
twtxt follow prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
Read your timeline
$ twtxt timeline
Some of the docs
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/usage.html
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
And if you want a browser based interface that does threading, etc (BUT requires a login…)
Day 32 of #100DaysToOffload.