#+TITLE: Emillo's org-social feed #+NICK: emillo #+DESCRIPTION: GNU/Linux user #+AVATAR: https://emillo.net/images/avatar.png #+LINK: https://emillo.net #+FOLLOW: andros https://andros.dev/static/social.org #+FOLLOW: rossa https://rossabaker.com/social.org #+FOLLOW: john https://johnhame.link/social.org #+FOLLOW: omid https://omidmash.de/social.org #+FOLLOW: eoin https://eoin.site/social.org #+FOLLOW: adsan https://adsan.dev/social.org #+FOLLOW: nickanderson https://cmdln.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: sachac https://sachachua.com/social.org #+FOLLOW: cherry https://cherryramatis.xyz/social.org #+FOLLOW: Leandro https://cybervalley.org/org-social-leandro/org-social.org #+FOLLOW: concavi https://concavi.net/social.org #+FOLLOW: alephoto85 https://www.alessandroliguori.it/social.org #+FOLLOW: shom https://shom.dev/social.org * Posts ** first post with org-social :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-16T12:28:27+02:00 :LANG: en :MOOD: 😊 :END: First attempt at using org-social. I think the idea is pure genius! Kudos to [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros]] for that. One of the things that I miss the most about the old internet before social media and the consequent enshittification - and even before forums - is (I'm old, I know) *usenet*: reddit is the thing that today is most similar to that experience, but with a huge and deal-breaking difference: centralization and ownership by a single actor. Usenet was a place to discuss and learn, grow, sometimes argue about the topics you were interested into. Like email, it was - an open standard - not bound to a single corporation/entity - not bound to a single client/app - decentralized - potentially indefinitely persistent (unlike forums) If email was internet's killer application, usenet was its collective application, and it was so good until it lasted. And why it died? There were too few monetization oppportunities :-(. It's not a coincidence that [[https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/SwRavCzVE7gJ][Linux was born on Usenet]] and I think we need to bring back that free, collaborative, collective, interesting usefulness of the internet that goes beyond corporate profitability. Org gives us the power of pure text, org-social can create a small community of like-minded people that (I assume) love Free software, emacs, org-mode. Even the majestic oak tree grows from a small acorn, and I think org-social is definitely a step in the right direction for planting that acorn. Maybe integrating it with something like [[https://nostr.com/][nostr]] could be an idea to protect it further. I'm a developer, albeit not a formally trained one so I don't know if I will be to par to contribute good code. I have used elisp only to configure emacs so far but I definitely want to use and actively support this project. Very very well done! ** test voting on a poll :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-18T12:38:07+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-18T10:49:34+0200 :POLL_OPTION: No, I prefer to use the current model (micro blogging). :CLIENT: org-social.el :MOOD: 😀 :END: ** test reply to andros :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-18T14:18:02+0200 :LANG: :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-18T13:13:03+0200 :MOOD: 💭 :END: I tried to vote on your poll, don't know if my vote "registered". About the replies I was somewhat expecting that the reply showed on a lower level heading under the post that the reply referred, like the typical `thread view` works on email clients. I see that you replied to my first post but was very difficult to correlate the two. Maybe a keybinding for switching from the actual "flat", strictly temporal view to the "threaded" view? Some other ideas: - visual line mode enable flag for org-social-timeline view - startup initial visibility (similar to [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Initial-visibility.html][org mode #+STARTUP option]]) - show/hide detailed post properties (I actually in 1.2 see only the post ID inside :PROPERTIES: if I want to se the original I have to go to the full remote file) - we now all have our social.org file, which I see as our first "topic", the seminal one. In the future with the growth of contents and user it may be beneficial to split/create new topics (or communities if you will) - second [[org-social:https://omidmash.de/social.org][omidmash]] idea of separating the register, which represents the actual "community" or "topic" Cheers! ** debian trixie and new emacs configuration :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-26T21:39:46+0200 :LANG: :TAGS: debian emacs bankrupcy :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-26T07:46:11+0200 :MOOD::writing_hand_tone2: :END: Indeed, August is a month of vacations, besides I was busy upgrading my (three, four? I don't remember) machines to debian 13 trixie (which by the way is fantastic) but doing so I've started to feel a bit uneasy about my old, messy emacs configuration... Basically I declared /emacs bankrupcy/ :O So, inspired by [[https://github.com/ISouthRain/OpenEmacs][openEmacs]] I started a [[https://github.com/emillo/emacs_configuration][new literate config]] from scratch (of course it's still WIP with plenty of TODOs). I use emacs at work, at home and on mobile/e-ink devices so the first requirement was to being able to tell apart what is native vanilla emacs from what comes from an external source as I don't want to rely too much on packages when there is a built-in alternative. Some of the reasoning is explained in the README. Another thing that trixie brings to the table is a perfectly compiled emacs 30.1. I usually build emacs from source but this time the version included in the distro is adequately /current/, with native compilation and whatnot so I kept that and used also many emacs packages directly from the debian repo. The conf is splitted in four files, the ~early-init.el~, ~init.el~ containing vanilla features, ~provided-by-debian.el~ containing packages available in debian and ~provided-by-gnu-nongnu-melpa.el~ for everything else (currently empty). Let me know what you think! Ah, I also corrected the social.org being served as file. ** Welcome new users :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-31T22:24:31+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: org-social :CLIENT: org-social.el :MOOD: :END: Hello and welcome to new users [[org-social:https://sachachua.com/social.org][sachac]], [[org-social:https://cybervalley.org/org-social-leandro/org-social.org][Leandro]], [[org-social:https://www.alessandroliguori.it/social.org][alephoto85]], [[org-social:https://concavi.net/social.org][concavi]], [[org-social:https://cherryramatis.xyz/social.org][cherry]], [[org-social:https://shom.dev/social.org][shom]] (new /to me/ of course, maybe I'm missing someone) I already have 13 people in my social.org: it's growing every day! I tried the rust client developed by [[org-social:https://adsan.dev/social.org][adsan]]: really impressive! Just trying org-social-after-save-file-hook of the new 1.3 version kindly published by [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros]] ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-09-03T16:53:47+0200 :LANG: :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-09-03T12:12:57+0200 :MOOD: :POLL_OPTION: Yes :END: