In-reply-to » I just think it's hilarious that y'all say you don't use Yarn / twtxt.net in one breath, but in the same you say you frequently visited the frontpage of twtxt.net to catch up on stuff šŸ¤£

@prologic and by ā€œyā€™allā€ you meant eapl, right? I noticed that too, and LOLed IRL. šŸ¤£

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In-reply-to » @prologic I believe that only a search box on the front page is better. Just like it is now. I still haven't got used to the advanced options, but that's an entirely different story.

I just think itā€™s hilarious that yā€™all say you donā€™t use Yarn / twtxt.net in one breath, but in the same you say you frequently visited the frontpage of twtxt.net to catch up on stuff šŸ¤£

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In-reply-to » Haha šŸ¤£ No worries! Maune that use-case can move to the search engine / crawler? šŸ¤”

@prologic I believe that only a search box on the front page is better. Just like it is now. I still havenā€™t got used to the advanced options, but thatā€™s an entirely different story.

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In-reply-to » Since I finally configured X11 in this VM for shenanigans ā€¦

Of all the retro OSes that Iā€™ve got running, SuSE 6.4 is clearly the most powerful one. It comes with a ton of software and development tools. Windows 2000, which was released around the same time, is basically ā€œemptyā€ in comparison.

But of course, none of that mattered. No popular software, no adoption. šŸ˜… And yes, things like configuring the X server were stupid hard back then.

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In-reply-to » Started writing something from scratch yesterday using thread(3) and wow do I miss writing in Limbo instead. :-/ #plan9

@adi@twtxt.net I kinda bounced off learning go properly a few years back. This little toy would be a good thing to try again on, now that you mention it. Maybe.

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In-reply-to » Is Yarn.social dead or just too niche? (uyrrria) šŸ§

Well, I donā€™t use Yarn/Twtxt.net anymore, although I read the homepage a few times a week to catchup on anything interesting.

Nowadays I barely twt from my PHP instance. I got to say that is more ā€œconvenientā€ reading from twtxt.net that on my instance.

My current feeling is that is too niche to find something interesting, being about personal growth, professional or even entertaining. There is not enough people and/or interesting topics to be engaged on. The network effect of people making content is missing IMO. Although I have a similar feeling of any other microblogging, itā€™s too superficial to have a meaningful conversation.
Sadly in this ecosystem Iā€™ve found no one twting on Spanish, and having conversations in English is not so easy to me.

And about local communities, I tried to invite friends and colleagues, but no one created their instance or joined to Yarn. Even the local Mastodon instance has 3 members (myself included), so I think creating a hipster microblogging is not as easy as looked at the start.

Itā€™s again a decision between the involved time and the ā€˜rewardā€™ at the end. If we are not getting good emotions or something bigger that ourselves, feels like ā€˜not worthyā€™ to belong.

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