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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

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Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#51
post #34

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?

(I don't use org mode or Kate. Love Kate, but prefer vim.) At least one person's set Kate up for org mode.

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-and-orgmode/

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#52

This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people.

You say that like it's a bad thing? :-) I almost never see posts on facebook from my actual friends. it's all either E.D. adverts or bots pushing an agenda.

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#53
I made a few patches to coax it into working. But I haven't gotten around to making a new GitHub account and I can't find @tanrax's email address. So...

  * Patch 1: https://www.bi6.us/ER/MSH/0001-add-closing-paren-to-org-social-parse-feed-to-comple.patch  
  * Patch 2: https://www.bi6.us/ER/MSH/0002-Add-my-social-URL-to-the-registers.txt-file.patch
Well, yes, technically you only need the first patch to get it to work. The second patch adds my name to the list of social-org sites. They're both one line changes, so it should be easy to verify I'm not adding to the global index of chicanery through software.

And if it's been a while since you applied a patch to a repo (instead of just pulled from a repo you merged into), here's the HOWTO I wrote about it:

  * https://www.bi6.us/GI/B/#/The%20Caveats/Applying%20Patches%20to%20Bare%20Repositories

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#54
post #52

This sure is a social network for a very small and specific set of people.

You say that like it's a bad thing? :-) I almost never see posts on facebook from my actual friends. it's all either E.D. adverts or bots pushing an agenda.

I do not say it like it's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just observing this fact.

I'm not in that very small and specific set of people but I am not that far from it; last week I logged into Furrymuck for the first time in decades and attended a memorial service for one of its wizzes and remembering how that text-only MMORPG worked sure was interesting when I wasn't busy crying my face off.

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#56

What does it solve compared to a normal plain HTML blog?

My take on it is it's for people who live in org-mode. Though I'm thinking a org-social to html converter would be a decent tool to have. One more project to fill my copious spare time.

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#58
post #36

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?

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.

> Because that would require leaving emacs, I guess.

Yeah, but if this kind of social network was hosted on Vim, nobody would be able to exit it I guess.

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#59
post #55

How about social.md which is gpg signed ?

Why not just sign the social.org file and publish it as social.asc or something?

Right. But I would still prefer markdown file format, so I could simply open it in web browser. :)

Re: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought that was Gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

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)

You reminded me that many years ago I gave some Microsoft sales folks grief for dropping Gopher from IIS, and then I wondered whether IIS still existed, and that led me to discover that iis.net was retired this summer.

https://www.iis.net/

And I still don’t know whether IIS itself still exists.

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