@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks for the feedback.

  1. Yeah I agrees that nick sound not be part of syntax. Any valid URL to a twtxt.txt-file should be enough and is more clear, so it is not confused with a email (one of the the issues with webfinger and fedivese handles)
  2. I think any valid URL would work, since we are not bound to look for exact matches. Accepting both http and https as well as a gemni and gophe could all work as long as the path to the twtxt.txt is the same.
  3. My idea is that you quote the timestamp as it is in the original twtxt.txt that you are referring to, so you can do it by simply copy/pasting. Also what are the change that the same human will make two different posts within the same second?!

Regarding the whole cryptographic keys for identity, to me it seems like an unnecessary layer of complexity. If you move to a new house or city you tell people that you moved - you can do the same in a twtxt.txt. Just post something like “I move to this new URL, please follow me there!” I did that with my feeds at least twice, and you guys still seem to read my posts:)

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@sorenpeter@darch.dk There was or maybe still is a competing proposal for multiline twts that combines all twts with the same timestamp to one logical multiline twt. Not sure what happened to that, if it is used in the wild and whether anyone “here” follows a feed with that convention. “Our” solution for multiline twts is to use U+2028 Unicode LINE SEPARATOR as a newline: https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/multilineextension.html.

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