[HN Gopher] Org-social is a decentralized social network that ru...
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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
Author : tanrax
Score : 93 points
Date : 2025-08-13 15:00 UTC (1 days ago)
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| bitwize wrote:
| Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.
| mxuribe wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing.
| temp0826 wrote:
| We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
| bitwize wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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).
| mtillman wrote:
| Still is if you have an account on sdf.org.
| gentooflux wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed
| by the Eternal September?
| Joe_Cool wrote:
| I thought that was Gemini:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
| thesuitonym wrote:
| 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)
| Joker_vD wrote:
| And also 4) somewhat want to talk to other people -- but not
| _that_ much that they 'd be ready to exit Emacs.
| small_scombrus wrote:
| > 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
| gentooflux wrote:
| 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...
| d0mine wrote:
| 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.
| luqtas wrote:
| and a Matrix client!
| https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el
| crabbone wrote:
| Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)
| BrouteMinou wrote:
| What does it solve compared to a normal plain HTML blog?
| deltasquared wrote:
| 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
| kyykky wrote:
| There seems to be a function to generate a feed based on the
| posts of the people you are following.
| Beretta_Vexee wrote:
| This looks like a bad hybrid between RSS and Markdown. Am I
| missing something?
| cml123 wrote:
| 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.
| egypturnash wrote:
| This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set
| of people.
| jancsika wrote:
| In other words, it's a _real_ social network.
| mtillman wrote:
| 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.
| stronglikedan wrote:
| > harder than DNS
|
| Oh, so extremely hard then.
| crabbone wrote:
| We kind of already have groups in Gnus... I even messaged one
| group, like twice in my life.
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| Finally a social network that only true nerdy people will ever
| join, I might just finally pick up emacs again.
| scubbo wrote:
| What about Mastodon?
|
| (I'm, like, 80% joking)
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| It sounds more like a blog than a network, I think. From way
| back:
|
| http://ahungry.com/blog/2013-04-01-blogging-with-org-mode.ht...
| jraph wrote:
| If this takes off and becomes mainstream, will you show some
| inclusiveness towards poor people like me who will dare editing
| their org social files with an editor like Kate?
| jethronethro wrote:
| While an interesting idea, it's kind of niche. I somehow doubt
| that this will become _mainstream_ , even among techies.
| jayde2767 wrote:
| In the end, Streaming Services have proven to be nothing more
| than advertising platforms scattered with brief moments of
| content. The ads outweigh the content making it less cost
| effective than going back to Cable, which is still terrible also.
| Hence the need to pirate and control what content you see.
| monkeywork wrote:
| think you replied on the wrong post friend.
| frogulis wrote:
| Which is funny, because my mind filled in the word "social
| media" and I thought it was a fair point, until I got to the
| word "Cable".
| t_mann wrote:
| Sounds a bit like the idea that Bluesky started out with. I don't
| really get why specifically org mode though, sounds like you
| could be doing the same thing with a simple Markdown file. And
| while you're at it, why not just use HTML and read your friends'
| blogs in the browser?
| tocs3 wrote:
| I think you can use whatever. The markdown is very org mode
| like.
| metalliqaz wrote:
| Because that would require leaving emacs, I guess.
|
| Just a guess. I'm a Vim user so unlike emacs users I do know
| how to shower but like emacs users I can't manage to carry a
| conversation with someone in person. We only think partly
| alike.
| abdullahkhalids wrote:
| Org mode is far more structured than markdown. Structured
| enough that so you can naturally store data in, and easily
| access/edit it later.
|
| Whenever someone tries to do something similar in markdown,
| they have to invent an extension of markdown to do it.
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