New social network powered by org-mode (emacs) just came out. https://github.com/tanrax/org-social >Org-social is a decentralized social network that leverages the simplicity and power of Org Mode files. >It allows users to create, share, and int

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Org-mode social networking Anonymous 08/15/25 (Fri) 10:04:08 No.4663

New social network powered by org-mode (emacs) just came out.

https://github.com/tanrax/org-social

>Org-social is a decentralized social network that leverages the simplicity and power of Org Mode files.

>It allows users to create, share, and interact with posts in a human-readable format while maintaining compatibility with various text editors and tools. You can publish posts, make replies, mention other users, create polls or personalize your profile. All this without registration, without databases... Just you and your Org Mode file.

>It is heavily inspired by twtxt, Texudus, and the extensions developed by the Yarn community.
>It takes the best of these specifications, eliminates complex parts, leverages Org Mode's native features, and keeps the premise that social networking should be simple, accessible to both humans and machines, and manageable with standard text editing tools.

Looks pretty interesting. Going to start playing with it tonight. You don't need emacs since a lot of other text editors support org-mode features now but you're probably best off using emacs if you aren't into org-mode yet.

I'm not much on twitter-like social networking (microblogging) but this seems like it would solve most of the common issues with such places. Like censorship and ddos attacks. Certainly it's much better than the federation attempts that have resulted in different instances de-linking from each other over petty disagreements.

This still needs some glue to patch everyone's "feeds" together. I'm sure that will follow soon. Simple RSS feeds would be enough to follow and reply to other people.

Thought about posting this in the lisp thread I made a few days ago but I kind of ranted and didn't want this to get lost in it.

If you're not already using org-mode I really suggest checking it out because it's useful for a lot of things. I've been using it for years to export my writings to multiple different file formats and even HTML. Saves me tons of time and trouble. Setting up emacs+org-mode only takes about an hour and since emacs has such a good help system+docs it's easy to figure out how to get around it without referring to the internet all of the time.

If you aren't aware org documents are just simple text files with minimal mark-up that can be exported to any other file type you can think of including stuff like LaTeX.

Anonymous 08/15/25 (Fri) 10:09:58 No.4664

>>4663
There is already a central registry which is just a simple document listing everyone's links to wherever they're hosting their own content. There is already a package for emacs to follow other users but it hasn't gotten into elpa/melpa yet.

https://github.com/tanrax/org-social/blob/main/org-social.el

No web based clients yet that I can see. But would be very easy to develop one to mimic the usual twitter-clones.

Anonymous 08/15/25 (Fri) 10:18:17 No.4665

For those unfamiliar with org-mode here are a few links to get started with it.

https://orgmode.org/ - GNU's website for org-mode
https://github.com/james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial - an emacs org-mode tutorial that seems to be pretty well written
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM - Google tech talk for org-mode and introduction

I also highly suggest the System Crafters series of videos related to emacs, org-mode, and list. Playlists follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bBJ4ZO7BXjSZ - Emacs From Scratch playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQK_DaaX34Q&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPQtn7FQEF3D7sroZbXuPZ7 - Learning emacs lisp playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTKmE1wLyw&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oMHJ6Xil1YdnYtlWd5hHZql - General emacs tips playlist

Embed related is the system crafters video "The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs". Pretty good introduction for anyone that hasn't used emacs before. This channel also has a great series of videos about the Guix package manager and GuixSD Linux distro.

Anonymous 08/16/25 (Sat) 00:55:58 No.4675

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Could be cool, although I'm really not a social media person and the programming stuff is over my head.
I'm guessing this is just going to be for hyper nerds for the time being until they can make it more accessible. Well, assuming they want to make it accessible.

Anonymous 08/16/25 (Sat) 01:11:52 No.4676

>>4675
You don't need to know lisp or programming to participate with this or use org-mode. Org-mode is simply using simple stuff like * and #+ to organize text within a document. For example, you can make lists and headings with with * and lists within lists with and * and so on. These can be collapsed and expanded within .org files using the space bar. You can also make lists with 1), 2), 3) etc. You can embed images within the .org document with ./path/to/image.png for example.

This sounds kind of useless until you realize you can export a .org to various things. So for example you could export the above simple document to: .html, .pdf, .epub and anything else that supports rich text+images and lists.

But you're right it'll probably remain a social network for lisp programmers until someone makes a web interface. But it's very simple to get started if you want. You don't need to go into the programming/lisp heavy parts of the above guides to get started. Emacs itself is very easy to use once you learn the basics. You can access most everything using a mouse if you want and you can get help for anything within it using the ctrl+h keybind.

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