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by technomancy 3783 days ago
> What is the benefit of using twtxt? Ok, it's decentralized, but what actual benefit does that bring?

Right now Twitter is up in arms about proposed changes which make users not have control over their feeds; there will be algorithmic curation so you only see the most popular content from your followers. "Just create a CLI wrapper" only works assuming the APIs are not effected by the changes they are making to the main product, which doesn't really make sense.
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746F7475 3783 days ago
So why not just make a Twitter clone? As in a website that had same functionality? This extra CLI abstraction will just make it harder to adopt, which again might be by design, but at that point a question comes to mind: why not just start a newgroup-ish email feed?

Again I don't quite get what Twitter is for, so maybe I'm missing something, but at least the publicity isn't an issue here since this seems to make it pretty hard to actually find people to follow.

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technomancy 3783 days ago
> why not just start a newgroup-ish email feed?

Have you ever tried to run a mail server before? It's a nightmare wrapped in a fiasco.

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