Yarn.social
A decentralised microblogging ecosystem built around plain-text twtxt feeds.
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About Yarn.social
Yarn.social is an ecosystem of clients, servers, and services for social microblogging with twtxt, a plain-text feed format. People can read feeds in a web app, host a feed themselves, or use a community pod.
The official site describes twtxt.app as an offline-first web client that caches timelines on the device. It also says reading requires no account, while posting depends on the chosen backend.
Strengths
- Feeds are plain text files that users can host
- Offers web, desktop, and terminal clients
- Timeline caching supports offline reading
Limitations
- Posting requires choosing and configuring a backend
Details
- Pricing
- FreeThe site describes the ecosystem and its components as free and open source.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- The Yarn.social contributors
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application, Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- People who want decentralised microblogging with feeds they can own
- Categories
- Privacy tools, Social networks
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Awesome self-hosted
- Sources