(08-10-2020, 09:56 AM)mcol Wrote:

Quote:twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised microBlogging platform. No ads, no tracking, your content, your data!

(you might get this a lot but) This sounds an awful lot like a number of other projects, some of which have formed very large networks, namely Mastodon and Pleroma. How does twtxt compare, and why might one choose twtxt over one of these other platforms? Or are they actually quite different?

Yes you're right we do get this from mostly Mastodon folks or those that are familiar. But again like what the other commenter posted, many have never heard of Mastodon nor ever used it.

We have a very long thread on "How Twtxt (the software I wrote, not the spec) compares to Mastodon" over at https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/86 which you are welcome to read and comment on or discuss here further :D The long of it is that Twtxt and Twt.social pods (https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt) are a very different design mode (pull vs, push) -- Or as you know Mastodon is based on ActivityPub. We do not support Reactions (for good reasons) or so-called Re-tweets (also for good reasons). We support both short-form and long-form (Twts and Twt Blogs). The pods are designed to work with existing (just a twtxt.txt file) feeds (we call external profiles) as well as other pods and even RSS/Atom (news).

There quite a lot more subtle differences, but I can't articulate them here.