@dfaria@twtxt.net Appreciate this 👌 Right now the algorithm is quite dumb – and I’d also hate to develop any algorithm that abuses any data from users. So definately needs to be things like:

• one post per day per domain
  
• or latest post per domain
  

etc/./

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Yup! Some good simple ideas there 👌

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Thanks for your positivity and support ! 🤗 This is exaxrly spot on, however I also realize getting things “right” is actually quite hard 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org How much emphasis do you place on test coverage?

To be fair cleaning up “noise” is quite hard to do. Obciously all the 1-way Mastodon feeds were easy because there’s just no way to interact with them!

@dfaria@twtxt.net That’s fair. Also removed the block on your domain btw.

@bender@twtxt.net I guess all I can do is unblock the domain and sit down and rethink the “Discover” view’s design and behavior? hmmm 🧐 Alternatively, build a new yarnd 2.0? as a single-user pod only?

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I could get behind that. Define minimalistic though? What features (if any) would we drop? Would it be mobile-first or desktop-first?

@bender@twtxt.net I couldn’t agree more 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net I never see problems on my end, so I suspect this has to be Cloudflare doing this occasionally. I’ll have to poke around there again. At least I have a close enough timestamp :D Maybe message me your IP and approximate timestamp?

I think multi-user pods were a mistake.

@dfaria@twtxt.net Sorry this has pissed you off so much (unintentional) – Also why the irrational outburst?! 😱 That’s no way to have discourse or help improve anything 🤦‍♂️

If you have ideas for improvement we’re all ears 👂

@dfaria@twtxt.net Cancelling is a strong word. I’d you follow your other feed yourself it’s still visible to you!

This whole exercise just reenforces that the idea of the “Discover” view was and is a terrible idea. 😢

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net

We’ll have to see how this policy will be implemented, but I like that Gentoo is willing to take a stand.

Me too😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 I saw this too and immediately thought

I have to stop using Terraform

🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱

@bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱

@mckinley@twtxt.net I’m not sure to be honest I think it’s just a straight up duplicate post. This actually does happen, it’s not a bug, it’s a “human problem”, but yeah it’s annoying, so it’s making me want to figure out a way of keeping some kind of similarity db to strip duplicates out like this.

Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq

Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞

@bender@twtxt.net A: Yes

@bender@twtxt.net Yup! It maybe should try to detect a pipe maybe too?

And yes @bender@twtxt.net pods will reintroduce old root Twts like this back into active caches 🤣 Just not the ones in/between (old replies)

Funny how well shit works that we’ve collectively built 🤣

@jdtron@tilde.team As did I 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😝

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂 I tried to even read the blog post, but I couldn’t. In all bluntness and honestly the layout and style of the website is total garbage, not to mention it’s written in a language I cannot read, but because it’s just so poorly written the translation service can’t translate it properly 🤦‍♂️ So point across FAIL

@bender@twtxt.net What is?! 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh yea! I’ll setup some CD for it this weekend 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds?

No.

And I’m also thinking of nuking my pod at some point and starting over. But maybe after we refactor a few important things.

@bender@twtxt.net I think it comes down to one of the principles Yarn.social was founded on, which is to say, users should have choices and what they “see” is not driven by “algorithms”. The “Discover” view in and of itself has utility/value to others, and is otherwise just a “view” of a pod’s cache, but I agree with you. It was even getting noisey for me 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Unofficially yarn supports the type field

Meg https://feeds.twtxt.net/slashdot/twtxt.txt

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Probably not? https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same to you!

In other words, there isn’t anything specifically wrong with the Twtxt spec (+extensions), but if you for example use a client and server combination that never considered the User-Agent header and check logs or intercept requests for your feed, than you end up missing an important part of the whole flow (unless you are of course deliberating ignoring that, e.g: 1-way feeds, news feeds, etc).

In my opinion, this can all be solved by a “better standard client”.

For example I noticed in this thread, someone, me, and you, and now it’s just a bad @-mention mentioned Soren Peter with a bad link :/

This also just reminds me of the other problems that exist:

• bad mentions.
  
• knowing whether someone will you’ve @-mentioned will even see your reply at all.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I think we just need a way of surfacing this information better for both users and operators? 🤔

@mckinley@twtxt.net I did!

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah this is what was being “cleaned up”

Yo be honest I don’t think there is a good solution IMO

You’re right we should
never be like Microshit 😆

@mckinley@twtxt.net I think “posting to the void” was/is a poor choice of words hete.

Today in the news

Microsoft is a security risk

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@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Oh boi! 😆 Gotta take a screenshot of this in case Microsoft demand the article be taken down 🤣

@dfaria@twtxt.net Also, I don’t really care whether you continue to use my pod or not frankly.

One more reason not to use https://twtxt.net/

negative comments like this are completely unconstructive and have no basis in merit. If you have issues with the way I administer my pod, speak up, provide alternatives. If you have good technical suggestions for Twtxt/Yarn, we’re all ears. We are only trying (or attempt to try) to make things better for all, which as you can appreciate is a hard thing to do.

Next time, please leave your constructive criticisms at home. No-one forces you to use my pod (for free).

Oh never mind! 🤦‍♂️ That’s your other feed that you syndicate some stuff to? 🤔 Research?