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BentonEdmondson
servitor
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BentonEdmondson / servitor

servitor

A command-line Fediverse client that doesn’t require a server

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
86GitHub stars
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What it is

A command-line Fediverse client that doesn’t require a server

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-07-10 20:36:15 UTC to 2023-08-13 21:19:08 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsJul 102023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 242023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 7

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 102023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC220
Jul 172023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 242023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 312023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 72023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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BentonE·Jul 10, 2023Submission

Show HN: Servitor – A TUI Fediverse browser that doesn't require a server

This is a program I have been working on that allows you to interact with the Fediverse in the same way you interact with RSS feeds. That is, you subscribe to people by adding them to a local subscriptions list, and then their feeds are pulled down and spliced together on your local machine. The benefit of this approach is mainly that you don't need a server, so you don't have to worry about losing your curated feeds because of your server going down, and you don't have to worry about defederation politics, because each post is pulled from its source site. Although it is controversial, I am also thinking about indexing posts and serving them in the form of a search engine and/or algorithm (kind of like the front page of Reddit/HN), and hooking this client into the service (configurable and optional of course). If you are already working o
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n something like this I'd be curious to hear about it. Let me know what you think.
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