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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode (github.com) 4 points by tanrax 1 day ago

Just last week I was fiddling around with a tangentially related idea. I made some modifications locally to my setup so that when browsing a .org file in eww, org-html-export-as-html would render it in the buffer as HTML directly. eww doesn't really support much styling via shr, so I was working on adding some basic css parsing to expand the range of expression for an org-based blog approach.

Many people export their org file based blogs to HTML and then publish them, but my thought would be to skip that and instead provide a path for eww to directly render org files, cutting out my html export stopgap. by cml123 5 hours ago

This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people. by egypturnash 4 hours ago

In other words, it's a real social network. by jancsika 4 hours ago

I feel like https://github.com/buckket/twtxt didn't get enough love when it was released. Registry hosting doesn't seem to be any harder than DNS. by mtillman 2 hours ago

This seems less "decentralized social network" and more "html-less www with extra steps," especially since it's only going to allow socializing between the specific types of people who fall within 3 very specific Venn diagram circles who 1) use emacs, 2) use org-mode, and 3) want to go through the trouble of hosting their own section of the network. by gentooflux 6 hours ago

I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed by the Eternal September? by bee_rider 5 hours ago

I thought that was Gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) by Joe_Cool 4 hours ago

Gemini is for hipsters who want to look like they like Gopher, but can't live without their cat pics.

(Said in jest, of course) by thesuitonym 4 hours ago

And also 4) somewhat want to talk to other people ― but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs. by Joker_vD 5 hours ago

> but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.

There's great news for the people who want to talk to other people and NOT exit emacs - you can get IRC built straight in.

https://github.com/emacs-circe/circe by small_scombrus 4 hours ago

Try as I might, I have not been successful in getting my wife to use IRC. I guess I should take that as a sign that she just doesn't want to talk to me... by gentooflux 4 hours ago

There is a telegram client for emacs: telega.el https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el

The installation instructions are scary but It has been straightforward to install melpa version via use-package with telega-server in docker. by d0mine 42 minutes ago

and a Matrix client! https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el by luqtas 12 minutes ago

by 4 hours ago

Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :) by crabbone 4 hours ago

Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day. by bitwize 6 hours ago

Well, there is https://plan.cat ...which, hosts a user's plan files. :-)

I guess think of it as a little microblog for displaying one's plan file? by mxuribe 6 hours ago

This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing. by lemonberry 6 hours ago

We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network! by temp0826 4 hours ago

I've observed that Unix itself was a social networking platform. Your Unix account was your identity across many services: email, finger, USENET, talk, etc. And it was distributed. And didn't rely on cruft like ActivityPub. by bitwize 4 hours ago

Totally! ident alongside IRC too. So many reinvented wheels. (Side note- I'm a little sad that https is the only protocol used for everything anymore). by temp0826 4 hours ago

Still is if you have an account on sdf.org. by mtillman 2 hours ago

...ofc, "oRg MoDE", the recluse dev dudes most loved command & control center. Is there an Amazon integration available? Maybe want to stock up on Soylent from an todo entry.... by danluvscock 20 minutes ago

What does it solve compared to a normal plain HTML blog? by BrouteMinou 6 hours ago

This filtered out those who 1) don’t use eMacs 2) don’t use org-mode

I suspect org-mode users are willing to go through an extra step if needed.

My notes are in .org if I want to share with someone else I export to .md and use the output by deltasquared 6 hours ago

We kind of already have groups in Gnus... I even messaged one group, like twice in my life. by crabbone 4 hours ago

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This looks like a bad hybrid between RSS and Markdown. Am I missing something? by Beretta_Vexee 5 hours ago