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org-social

Org Social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP.

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
404GitHub stars
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What it is

Org Social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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 month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-08-13 15:00:25 UTC to 2026-08-07 15:47:05 UTC.

0122025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2026

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Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Our social media should be decentralized and local first, allowing for bespoke clients on any OS. This is an experiment towards that: https://github.com/dharmatech/9social The first client is written for plan9. This keeps the design honest. (If it can run on plan9/rc/acme...) Video demo: https://youtu.be/q6qVnlCjcAI The current implementation is less than 3000 lines of code. And speaking of Emacs... 9social was heavily inspired by an Emacs project called Org Social: https://github.com/tanrax/org-social
In The Emacsification of Software
andros·Aug 13, 2025Submission

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

After collaborating with several communities around twtxt and gathering many improvements requested by the community, I thought that many of the technical limitations or wishes that people had could be resolved within an org file. Org social is a first draft to ask the community for feedback and see if it was something that could be useful to people. The response has been very positive and overwhelming. It is and will remain a niche technology, its use is intentionally limited to a group of people who love the org format and want to share their thoughts, articles and reflections without having to generate HTML. In addition to being able to interact with the different Emacs communities through mentions and replies. I am gradually responding to everyone who has written to me, sent me ideas and suggestions. If you really have something inter
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esting to contribute, please make a pull request in the repository or send me a DM on Mastodon.
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