Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.
2026-06-08 17:48 UTC
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/40941829
Details at 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.
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@TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2026-06-09 05:17
How is this more useful than just posting to an rss feed? Not trying to be snarky, just curious about the design