I read through lots of the twtxt github pages and discussion here and I think I am pretty sold to the idea. The difference in terms of actual usage does seem similar to many platforms -- with the main difference being the "pull" rather than "push" approach to updates -- but there is a huuuuge difference on the admin side.

(16-10-2020, 05:29 AM)vain Wrote: From my very narrow POV, the appeal of twtxt is that you don’t have to set it up (on your server). I can host the file and be done with it. If I don’t touch it for a year, it doesn’t matter: A text file won’t have bugs and security issues, no maintenance required. I absolutely love this.

This is a super important point. I would never consider self-hosting mastodon, it's way too complicated. But this, absolutely. What I have noticed from mastodon (I use it a lot) is that anybody who wants to self-host will instead use pleroma which is more manageable, but it is still a big dynamic ActivityPub thing so I suppose there is a spectrum of these similar tools.

What I would love to see is people to somehow integrate twtxt into other things such as blog posts. For instance, one could post a twtxt message about something they've written, and then others could reply to that message, and that twtxt thread could be displayed under the blog post itself, thereby facilitating interest and perhaps more discussion in future visitors.