@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Of course, those shitheads. 🤣 (Doesn’t really make a difference in practice, luckily. There aren’t that many of them.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah improvements should roll out much more quickly than I can by hand 🤣

I just think it’s hilarious that y’all say you don’t use Yarn / twtxt.net in one breath, but in the same you say you frequently visited the frontpage of twtxt.net to catch up on stuff 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Okay, so no “fire hose” 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Speaking of which, can we make any obvious (low hanging fruit) improvements here? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks mate, looking forward to the next weekend. :-) It appears I’m just in time with this tiny usability improvement: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/search/pulls/22

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you. :-( Flight tickets are way too cheap. I’m also astonished, that night flying restrictions don’t apply for politicians. Of course.

@prologic@twtxt.net I believe that only a search box on the front page is better. Just like it is now. I still haven’t got used to the advanced options, but that’s an entirely different story.

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you do. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oof ouch! 😱

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, they’re approaching three (!) parallel runways, directly above me. 😞 (The early days of Covid were super quiet and peaceful.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Live in a flight path? 🤔

Of all the retro OSes that I’ve got running, SuSE 6.4 is clearly the most powerful one. It comes with a ton of software and development tools. Windows 2000, which was released around the same time, is basically “empty” in comparison.

But of course, none of that mattered. No popular software, no adoption. 😅 And yes, things like configuring the X server were stupid hard back then.

Damn those fucking planes and their noise.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Is self hosting an instance (Yarn or Mastodon) just too hard for most? 🤔 I know standing up ‘as to don is a biatch for sure 🤣

Haha 🤣 No worries! Maune that use-case can move to the search engine / crawler? 🤔

How do we all feel about a “fire hose” front page on https://search.twtxt.net/ ? 🤔

@adi@twtxt.net I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.

Well, I don’t use Yarn/Twtxt.net anymore, although I read the homepage a few times a week to catchup on anything interesting.

Nowadays I barely twt from my PHP instance. I got to say that is more “convenient” reading from twtxt.net that on my instance.

My current feeling is that is too niche to find something interesting, being about personal growth, professional or even entertaining. There is not enough people and/or interesting topics to be engaged on. The network effect of people making content is missing IMO. Although I have a similar feeling of any other microblogging, it’s too superficial to have a meaningful conversation.
Sadly in this ecosystem I’ve found no one twting on Spanish, and having conversations in English is not so easy to me.

And about local communities, I tried to invite friends and colleagues, but no one created their instance or joined to Yarn. Even the local Mastodon instance has 3 members (myself included), so I think creating a hipster microblogging is not as easy as looked at the start.

It’s again a decision between the involved time and the ‘reward’ at the end. If we are not getting good emotions or something bigger that ourselves, feels like ‘not worthy’ to belong.

Since I finally configured X11 in this VM for shenanigans …

The original tuXeyes running in a SuSE Linux 6.4 VM and my clone from 2017 (which does not depend on a now ancient version of Qt):

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I feel blessed already! :-P

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I don’t follow (yet). That’s certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!

Indeed, I do that as well.

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you! :-)

@bender@twtxt.net Let’s hope your life quality will improve with that single purpose tool. :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net Heck yeah, grats!

@prologic@twtxt.net Like @movq@www.uninformativ.de said, it is a very niche thing. But that has always been a good thing in my opinion. And I do still think so. :-)

yarnd in particular is too heavy for me personally, I just like the simplicity of wacking a file on my server and voilà. But other than that, I still support that software. :-)

And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I don’t follow (yet). That’s certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!