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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
    comment by akkartik · 2026-08-07 · in Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
  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…
    comment by hxii · 2026-03-12 · in Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
  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.
    comment by mtillman · 2025-08-14 · in Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
  4. Thanks! I've filed a PR to add that to the documentation. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/pull/183
    comment by simonw · 2024-12-22 · in Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
  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!…
    comment by simonw · 2024-12-22 · in Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
  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)
  7. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by dym_sh · 2022-05-05 · in ActivitySub
  8. …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…
    comment by kixiQu · 2021-11-07 · in POSSE: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
  9. btw the original twtxt is https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by mntmn · 2020-11-29 · in Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised MicroBlogging Platform
  10. 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?
  11. Holy hell that took awhile to find. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
    comment by xori · 2018-05-30 · in Ask HN: Shot in the dark, plain text micro blog
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. 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
  15. …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
  16. …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
    comment by CJKinni · 2016-02-11 · in Show HN: Urtxt – an api and minimal website for storing plain text files online