cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40941829

Details at https://twtxt.dev/ and elsewhere. This has been in development since 2016. All you do is create a txt file in www or html and include info like

# nick        = username
# url         = https://example.com/posts.txt
# avatar      = https://example.com/avatar.png
# description = Describe this

to then begin posting using a command like like

echo -e "$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')\tHello to all of you out there! >> posts.txt

There are various registries and places you can submit your user via curl to become more discoverable by others. Also tons of spin-offs that add support for fancier markdown and such, but haven’t tried those yet.

  • Shertson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    If I remember right, you host a text file on your server. You write short Twitter style texts and can @ mention others and reply to their posts.

    It’s been a while since I played with it, so I might be wrong.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Neat. The cli is so powerful. I probably haven’t even explored 1% of what it can do.