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twtxt complete | |
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 | |