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Why not use twtxt? It looks like you're inventing a similar protocol here.

All these attempts are not as easy to use as the dominant network. Friction-free is very hard. Are the masses going to switch purely for privacy preservation?

See our Internet-deployed social network from 13 years ago. Without any server and no gatekeepers. Its fully self-organising. It lacks polish. You simply can not compete against the thousands of engineers which polish the dominant social network. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221015322_A_Gossip-...

So twtxt is a text protocol for sharing social media posts which can be shared by hosting a plaintext file. I bring it up because it's extremely close to what the author proposed.

It doesn't look that close; the model of interaction seems to be completely different. twtxt is a command line tool with flat files and no obvious way of linking content, and logseq is an outliner with hierarchical files and bidirectional links created with wiki-like syntax.

Someone without advanced knowledge of the command line would not know how to start using twtxt, while using logseq is as simple as any plain text editor.

Twtxt is more of a sharing standard that can be statically hosted rather than a command line tool: Yarn.social, for instance, is a web app that uses Twtxt format for social microblogging.

What do you see about twtxt that seems similar to you?

Logseq doesn't have "posts" as such, nor is there a protocol here for sharing. There's nothing graph related in twtxt. It also doesn't integrate with the personal knowledgebase people are already using. I'm not sure why twtxt would come to mind as similar.

Definitely some good ideas in here and similar ideas of just hosting flat data on the internet with a spec.

https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html

Since everything is just data, if you wanted to write a logseq query to transform and export your graph in this format to be compatible with their CLI, you could (especially with the new graph as api tools)

This is the most similar project I've seen to what I'm thinking https://anagora.org/agora-editor

Dear HN: Please stop making this comment, or phrase it differently. People are allowed to be different and things are allowed to exist without being practical.

Please stop making comments asking people not to make comments whose intent you can't discern.

Either: The author hasn't heard of twtxt, and might be intrigued at the possibility of compatibility, or they have heard of it and may have reasons for being different which may add to the discussion.

Your comment assumes the worst intent (I never said or suggested differences shouldn't be allowed) and deadends good discussion.

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