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December 11th, 2017
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I installed twtxt on ma.sdf.org today. It was easy. I just used
virtualenv-3.6 to set up a nice ecosystem, then did the pip
install method in the documentation. After install I ran the
quickstart. It asked to overwrite my twtxt.txt file (which I had
backed up) but it turns out it didn't mess with it at all. All
good there!
Next I found a list of people to follow as a starting point on
github [0]. I forked the repo and added a pull request to add my
name to the list which was promptly accepted (whee!). Installing
those folks is an easy one-liner at the bottom of the readme.
Finally, I didn't want to have to log into ma.sdf.org every time
I wanted to check my timeline, so I added a little alias:
alias twtxt='ssh -t meta twtxt timeline'
I have a ssh alias for meta array in my ssh config, so that
handles it all in one line nicely. Oh! I had to edit the config
file for twtxt to set the display order to ascending instead of
the default descending so that the newest messages are at the
bottom. Now I don't need to worry about passing it to a pager to
see the latest.
There's a #twtxt channel on freenode. I informed them of my
stream, but I haven't seen any responses yet. @elw also set up his
own twtxt stream, so it's already paying off!
I have no idea if I'll stick with it or if it'll end up having
a different feel from Mastodon, but what the hell. It's plain text
and that's awesome.
[0] We are twtxt @ mdom's github
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