This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people.
jancsika 2 hours ago [-]
In other words, it's a real social network.
mtillman 7 minutes 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.
gentooflux 4 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.
bee_rider 3 hours ago [-]
I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed by the Eternal September?
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...
2 hours ago [-]
crabbone 2 hours ago [-]
Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)
cml123 3 hours 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.
bitwize 4 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.
mxuribe 4 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?
lemonberry 4 hours ago [-]
This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing.
temp0826 2 hours ago [-]
We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
bitwize 2 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.
temp0826 2 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).
crabbone 2 hours ago [-]
We kind of already have groups in Gnus... I even messaged one group, like twice in my life.
BrouteMinou 4 hours ago [-]
What does it solve compared to a normal plain HTML blog?
deltasquared 4 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
Beretta_Vexee 3 hours ago [-]
This looks like a bad hybrid between RSS and Markdown. Am I missing something?
(Said in jest, of course)
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
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.
I guess think of it as a little microblog for displaying one's plan file?
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