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Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 6 stories, 16 comments · first 2016-02-05 · latest 2026-08-07

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  1. See also https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://indieweb.org/twtxt
  2. So, in essence this is very, very similar to TWTXT ( https://github.com/buckket/twtxt ). I'd imagine that similarly to TWTXT, this suffers from the same accessibility and barrier of entry issues. It's one thing when all you have to do is…
  3. I feel like https://github.com/buckket/twtxt didn't get enough love when it was released. Registry hosting doesn't seem to be any harder than DNS.
  4. Thanks! I've filed a PR to add that to the documentation. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/pull/183
  5. …has recent posts (from December 2024): https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt The last commit to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/commits/master/ is October 2023, so I don't think this project is 100% thriving at the moment. Update: Aha!…
  6. …track. The format is simple, human readable, and integrates well with UNIX command line utilities. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt I have used this format a little bit when I first found out about it. But haven’t felt like adding any more…
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-02-15 · in We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
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    Twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by Schiphol · 2022-11-12 · 0 comments
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    twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by zichy · 2022-11-06 · 0 comments
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    Buckket/twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by chazeon · 2022-07-08 · 0 comments
  10. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by dym_sh · 2022-05-05 · in ActivitySub
  11. …well. Hell, I even take Mastodon ( https://occult.institute/@maya ) and shove it into a twtxt ( https://github.com/buckket/twtxt ) file on my site ( https://maya.land/assets/twtxt.txt ). Once you start thinking about stuff with these…
  12. btw the original twtxt is https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
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    Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by BaudouinVH · 2020-06-13 · 1 comment
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    Twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by miki123211 · 2019-10-19 · 0 comments
  15. This remind me of this microblogging for hackers script: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/blob/master/README.rst
    comment by Boulth · 2018-07-15 · in Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
  16. Holy hell that took awhile to find. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
  17. …algorithm (I worked on ActivityPub server implementation). Twtxt is minimalist but functional: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by Shoothe · 2018-03-21 · in DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
  18. …to quads etc.) But this is a very simple alternative, distributed "Twitter" for hackers: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt#twtxt
    comment by Promarged · 2018-03-12 · in Slack's bait and switch
  19. I still think back periodically to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt . Fascinating project.
    comment by akkartik · 2017-01-13 · in App.net is shutting down
  20. …except trivially easy to host, and searchable, and (the hard part) with all of Twitter's users. [1] https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by btrask · 2016-03-16 · in Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access
  21. …going through the Show HNs of the past week to find it! It's called twtxt, and you can find it at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
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    Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
    story by buckket · 2016-02-05 · 65 comments