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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

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Post by raspyberr » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 8:43 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #22

Joe_Cool wrote: post #20

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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)

Gemini lives rent free in the heads of like 99% of HN users. It's really weird. Look at any Gemini network posts on here. So much hate for a little network that just sits there and does its thing.

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

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Post by t_mann » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

omaranto wrote: post #68

t_mann wrote: 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?

You could do the same thing with a Markdown file, but I wouldn't call it simpler than Org. Maybe by simple you meant "familiar to more people"?

I meant 'less markup' (in the sense of a simple ratio of markup characters over total characters). Now you can say that the markup is still fairly low and actually useful. But that goes to my second point of why not just use HTML. This is pretty much exactly what it's been designed for originally.

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