(08-10-2020, 11:18 AM)jkl Wrote: I have never heard of Pleroma, so that’s that...

It's a pretty big twitter clone. According to https://fediverse.network/pleroma it has over 58,000 users over 767 instances. Mastodon is over 3M users across ~3000 instances, and these two platforms federate too, which is cool. In theory, twtxt could federate with them too.

(08-10-2020, 11:18 AM)jkl Wrote: twtxt is basically a Twitter for hackers. The only interface is a command line and the only input/output is plain text. I can imagine that the web interface makes it rather exchangeable.

If "for hackers" is a benefit then there are instances for that, such as fosstodon which has 13K users. As for the interface, there are lots of CLI/TUI mastodon clients. These other platforms do also support posting things like images, videos, etc so I guess being text only could be a distinguishing feature of twtxt.

I haven't looked too closely at twtxt though, so it's possible it has other key differences or improvements.