twx

A decentralised microblogging client based on the specs of twtxt, used to handle your twtxt file.

Why another client

I love twtxt format for its simplicity and being a real decentralized communication protocol. But I see some issues that I want to focus. So i created my own twtxt client because I want to be able to make tests to evolve the format, on what I think lack to the protocol :

1. Decentralized ID
2. Tweet Encryption
3. Metadata (Profile) Encryption
4. Discoverability
5. Ability to create rooms
6. Ability to administrate rooms

Already Done :

twx can :

• post a tweet
• reply to a tweet
• create a timeline
• follow people
• unfollow people
• preHook and postHook

Todo :

twx can't yet :

• Have a pretty Timeline (in many format)
• Have caching
• Have plugin hooks (to github / gdrive /one drive / ...)
• Lot of useful commands (thread, tags, profile, ....)
• create a local webserver
• Encryption
• Discoverability
• Decentralized ID

Todo ( more precise ) :

Timeline :

• replace on timeline @nick or @ and present it like : @nick@url
• highlight tags
• add mkdown integration + color
• use_pager: use a pager (less) to display your timeline (sorting not apply here)
• porcelain style output in an easy-to-parse format (without pretty things)
• use_abs_time: use absolute datetimes in your timeline
• timeline --web
• timeline --gemini
• timeline generates microformat v2 (https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2) => html to see
• timeline with thread organized

Tweet :

• character_warning: warn when composed tweet has more characters
• Encryption

Cache :

• use_cache : cache remote twtxt files locally (with parquet)
• timeline_update_interval: time in seconds cache is considered up-to-date

New Commands :

• Thread command
• Tag Command (like Thread actually)
• see users's Tweets Command
• User Profile (metadata) Command
• Mentions and Replied Thread Commands
• Discover Command (download the followings of users that you follow ....)
• Should we separate feed from follow ?
• version console interactive (IRC like)

Hook :

• github integration (nick/twtxt.txt)
• drive integration
• one drive integration

CI/CD :

• cmd line test : https://github.com/google/go-cmdtest or other script
• https://github.com/orlangure/gocovsh
• Unit Tests
• Test on Apple
• https://goreleaser.com/
• circleCI

README.md

• do README file
• do a demo like : https://github.com/orlangure/gocovsh

Web-Server :

• local web server
• local gemini server