Errant thought - I kind of hope that the actual social network for developers of the not so distant future looks more like a bunch of us separately building bespoke applications to serve files to each other.

> Dave: "Bot, add a folder to my personal data store with the pictures I took this weekend and share it with everyone in my poker group"

> Sally: "I see that I've gotten an email from Dave with a magic link conveying access to something. Bot, use this link to negotiate a key exchange with whatever weird app Dave cobbled together (ask his bot if you need help) and then log into my VPS and add a tab to my personal webapp to display the content he has shared."

That might be overly optimistic, but it doesn't feel that far off. It's kind of what Tim Berners-Lee build https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_project for right?

It would be nice if the website had more information about the platform before you create an account.

Thank you, but no. I'll stick with /dev/tty0 . It's federated.

Social media site for devs getting hug-of-death'd by HN... the irony!

https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/users-1.xml

https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/commits-1.xml

I have a petty complaint: if you name your social network after a core Unix concept, then why make your users login exclusively through a Microsoft subsidiary?

I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!

Seems to be down...

What does it use? masto or hand-crafted stuff?

Y.a.t.c (yet another twitter clone). Except for theming it brings nothing new to the social media space. I also dont think sending my tweets to a null device will do much for development. Ill put my bets on Bsky or Mastodon here.

Your posts have to be approved? Odd way to run a social network imo.

> Failed to open page

I'm guessing that wasn't expected result.

> Everyone here signed in with GitHub.

ugh.

/tmp/social would have been better I think. dev = device, doesn’t make sense.

Wasn't this originally HN?

Shouldn't that domain be dev-null.social instead of 'shell'? Dorks.

Looks good!

> Computah... build me a social network in PHP. Import the user's profile from GitHub, they shouldn't have to fill anything in. No likes, reposts or algorithms. Add a catchy slogan at the home page. Make no mistakes!

symlinked in.

it's fully open source (https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls) and received over 200 PRs in less than 48 hours

Very good idea

This is interesting: a. Developers on average are probably low on E trait in the Big Five b. Most users in the online developer communities (at least the ones who will be doing the "social" part, per the standard 1% rule of social platforms) loathe LinkedIn-style stuff, being asked to log in or provide PII. c. Most "social" services devs regularly use are for technical/utility stuff (GH, SO, subreddits) more than the social aspect.

If a, b and c are true, then this site is reinventing HN/proggit with forced GitHub login on top. NGMI.

conceptually, just sounds like a place you go when you don't want anyone to hear, see or think about you.

Using GH as the only way to associate identity is a bit evil

Devs need to be around actual humans in-person more, not less.

I can't see any of the content unless I sign in.

I don't know if I want to sign in, because I can't see any of the content.

> No likes. No reposts. No algorithm. Everything else goes to /dev/null.

*Closes tab

> follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.

Isn't that Twitter?

Why do all these guys have "Soy Face" when you take their pictures?