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

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

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Post by andros »

After collaborating with several communities around twtxt and gathering many improvements requested by the community, I thought that many of the technical limitations or wishes that people had could be resolved within an org file. Org social is a first draft to ask the community for feedback and see if it was something that could be useful to people. The response has been very positive and overwhelming.

It is and will remain a niche technology, its use is intentionally limited to a group of people who love the org format and want to share their thoughts, articles and reflections without having to generate HTML. In addition to being able to interact with the different Emacs communities through mentions and replies.

I am gradually responding to everyone who has written to me, sent me ideas and suggestions. If you really have something interesting to contribute, please make a pull request in the repository or send me a DM on Mastodon.

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
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Post by gentooflux »

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.

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Post by lemonberry »

mxuribe wrote: post #3
bitwize wrote: post #2

Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.

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?

This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing.

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Post by deltasquared »

BrouteMinou wrote: post #5

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

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

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Post by bee_rider »

gentooflux wrote: post #4

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.

I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed by the Eternal September?

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Post by cml123 »

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.

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