---------------------------------------- twtxt complete December 11th, 2017 ---------------------------------------- I installed twtxt on ma.sdf.org today. It was easy. I just used virtualenv-3.6 to set up a nice ecosystem, then did the pip install method in the documentation. After install I ran the quickstart. It asked to overwrite my twtxt.txt file (which I had backed up) but it turns out it didn't mess with it at all. All good there! Next I found a list of people to follow as a starting point on github [0]. I forked the repo and added a pull request to add my name to the list which was promptly accepted (whee!). Installing those folks is an easy one-liner at the bottom of the readme. Finally, I didn't want to have to log into ma.sdf.org every time I wanted to check my timeline, so I added a little alias: alias twtxt='ssh -t meta twtxt timeline' I have a ssh alias for meta array in my ssh config, so that handles it all in one line nicely. Oh! I had to edit the config file for twtxt to set the display order to ascending instead of the default descending so that the newest messages are at the bottom. Now I don't need to worry about passing it to a pager to see the latest. There's a #twtxt channel on freenode. I informed them of my stream, but I haven't seen any responses yet. @elw also set up his own twtxt stream, so it's already paying off! I have no idea if I'll stick with it or if it'll end up having a different feel from Mastodon, but what the hell. It's plain text and that's awesome. (HTM) [0] We are twtxt @ mdom's github