This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people.
jancsika · 22m ago
In other words, it's a real social network.
cml123 · 1h 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.
gentooflux · 2h 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 · 1h 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...
crabbone · 35m ago
Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)
crabbone · 32m ago
We kind of already have groups in Gnus... I even messaged one group, like twice in my life.
bitwize · 2h ago
Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.
mxuribe · 2h 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 · 2h ago
This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing.
temp0826 · 44m ago
We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
bitwize · 26m 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 · 1m ago
Totally! ident alongside IRC too. (Side note- I'm a little sad that https is the only protocol used for everything anymore).
BrouteMinou · 2h ago
What does it solve compared to a normal plain HTML blog?
deltasquared · 2h 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 · 1h ago
This looks like a bad hybrid between RSS and Markdown. Am I missing something?
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.
(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
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