Are you also feed up with big techs grip on our social lives online? And do you want something more personal than mastodon? Something that is easier to self-host and integrate with your own website? What if you could have the core features of twitter and instagram by just uploading a plane text file to a server?
With Twtxt, a minimalist protocol for micro-blogging, you can. And with the tools that the communities around Yarn Social even your parents can start using twtxt too.
In my talk I want to explore my motivations as a digital artist for getting involved in the development of Yarn Social, a decentralized social media based on the Twtxt format, and why I decided to make my own tools in PHP to hopefully make it even more accessible for more people to self-host.