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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bee_rider 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

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Joe_Cool 4 days ago | parent [-]

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

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thesuitonym 4 days ago | parent [-]

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)

	▲	raspyberr a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	macintux 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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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Joker_vD 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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small_scombrus 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> 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

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gentooflux 4 days ago | parent [-]

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...

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d0mine 4 days ago | parent [-]

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.

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luqtas 4 days ago | parent [-]

and a Matrix client! https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el

	▲	kogasa240p 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		XMPP too, but no OMEMO encryption.

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crabbone 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)