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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.
And also 4) somewhat want to talk to other people ― but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.
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I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed by the Eternal September?
I thought that was Gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
(Said in jest, of course)
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We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
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.
This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people.
In other words, it's a real social network.
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We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
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.
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> 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
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...
The installation instructions are scary but It has been straightforward to install melpa version via use-package with telega-server in docker.
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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...
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.