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twtxt strikes me more as a really bad IRC than as a really good federated microblog system.
I guess at the current scale our webservers can handle polling some text files, but it’s just aesthetically chafing.
It’s just a way more redundant, way more sending and resending and resending and resending version of IRC.
And if you don’t have a registry it’s even worse.
At best it’s a much improved atom or gmisub. But talking to each other one sentence per day doesn’t seem very sustainable. IDK.
Internet for me growing up was mostly mail and IRC.
Everyone had a “homepage”, maybe some slashfic and poems on there, that was basically it.
Usenet was also a thing but I’m pretty much “good riddance” that that’s over. And the protocol sucked too. Mailing lists do the same thing but better.