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.

  • John Colagioia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    It’s…a web-accessible log file, basically. Timestamp-and-status, line after line, and “clients” read it periodically to report updates. My now-defunct feed has a couple of comments (# ...) at the top for the URL and my “user ID,” but I don’t remember if they were requirements, conveniences, or just a cargo cult thing.