found the twitter brand sitting in the trash bin the other day.
i have decided to re-purpose it to be my own.
twitter site cost: $40 billion
twytere.com cost: like ten bucks
i’ve been mulling over creating my own content recommendation engine.
it would be some sort of llm-enabled system that aggregates and recommends content from my own creations and shares. this would help me find books to read, films to watch, &c.
it would draw heavily on my linklog, resurfacing old content and reminding me of previously-enjoyed media.
i’d also like to integrate my massive vivaldi “reading list,” which grows faster than i can keep up with.
this list is already massive, and it grows more quickly than i can consume it.
querying this content via natural language with an llm (like hermes3) could make it easier to find the right media at the right time.
----- example conversation -----
me: "find me something work-related to watch during my 30-minute lunch break"
hermes: "after searching your vivaldi reading list, tumblr linklog, and fediverse posts, here's a relevant video under 30 minutes: <something good & relevant here>"
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(maybe i can include my rss feeds too. 🤔)
as i (and others) become increasingly overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available online, having a curated experience like twytere is invaluable.
it’s a personal solution for now, but the underlying data (links, content) is already public.
i’ll try to provide access to the front-end/llm/website once/if it’s built.
ideally, twytere will become a (public) personal inspiration/content management tool. it will help me organize and synthesize information from various sources with less mental overhead.
features like semantic search will make it easier to explore complex subjects and discover unexpected connections between ideas at a pace more desirable to my mind's well-being.
1. i’m fascinated by medieval literature. (my senior thesis was on chaucer, and i researched secular medieval music/lyrics.) "twytere" is a small step towards revisiting medieval culture.
2. nostalgia for twitter. the one i joined in 2009, not the one that died in 2022 (or sooner).
3. it’s funny to possess a “twitter” (medieval peasant’s version) that parodies the current bot-infested twitter. twytere is a truman show i direct + participate in.
regarding point no. 1, i used the university of michigan’s middle english dictionary entry for “twiteren (v.)” to choose the spelling.
around the year 1380, there’s a recorded usage:
The janglynge brid..twytereth [vr. twitriþ], desyrynge the wode, with hir swete voys.
so i chose twytere.com.
twytere is about reclaiming control over my digital experience from manipulative algorithms and one loud bum.
it embraces technology to achieve nostalgia-tinged aims. it’s a celebration of individual curation and a lament of past social media.
just as shattered horizon[1] (pictured below) needs a replacement (maybe no man's sky?), twitter needs to be replaced by twytere.
as for twitter: i'm working on replacing it with twytere.
~wampa
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1: this will link to my small ‘zine’ about shattered horizon, a unique space-based first-person shooter game. (my gemini capsule is offline right now.)
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🖅 e-brev: gem at wampa dot xyz
