In-reply-to » My rewritten twtxt client will be called “jenny” – and I now somewhat hope that twt.social will indeed be renamed to yarn / yarn.social 😁 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_jenny

@vain@www.uninformativ.de The benefit is actually on remote feeds and their “server”(s). By using ETag and/or If-Modified-Since you reduce the potential for unwanted full fetches of remote feeds. (_something I’ve gotten in trouble with @EvilBob myself and promptly fixed). The other solution to this os to use Range requests (something I plan to add to twtd at some point)

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