Discord wants your face; Org Social just wants you to be free. In plain text, identity verification doesn't exist and never will.

Freedom on the internet!

#emacs #freedom #orgmode #orgsocial

🎉 What’s New in Org Social! 🎉

This month the Org Social community has been talking about Emacs workflows and packages, including daily-use tools like denote, TRAMP, eglot, mu4e, and elfeed, as well as specialized packages like beardbolt (Rust disassembly), versuri (music lyrics search), whisper.el (voice dictation), and elfeed-score (RSS scoring).

Technical discussions covered functional programming (learning Haskell and Common Lisp), AI-assisted development with Claude Code, music playback with mpd/mpdel in Emacs, web browsing without JavaScript in eww, and embedded development with Renode integration. Members also participated in the Emacs Carnival sharing their goals, including learning new languages, exploring agentic AI, and contributing more to the Emacs community through blogs and talks.

If you don't like these topics, don't join!

For more information: https://github.com/tanrax/org-social

#emacs #orgsocial #orgmode

In Org Social, we were talking about eww and its uses. What do you think about it on Mastodon? I mentioned in the thread that I use it for development, to view raw HTML and perform quick searches.

#emacs #eww #orgmode #orgsocial

🎉 What’s New in Org Social! 🎉

The last month has been incredibly productive for Org Social! Here’s everything that happened:

📜 Org Social Specification
Version 1.5 (29 Dec)

Version 1.6 (4 Jan) - Final/Stable Version!

∙ #+LOCATION: for user location (city, country)
∙ #+BIRTHDAY: in YYYY-MM-DD format
∙ #+LANGUAGE: for languages spoken (ISO 639-1)
∙ #+PINNED: to pin a post to profile top
∙ Post ID now allowed in header (after **) in addition to :ID: property

🖥️ org-social.el Client

Version 2.8 (11 Dec)
∙ Real-time Desktop Notifications via SSE (Server-Sent Events)
∙ Post Preview Length Control with “Read more” button (configurable)

Version 2.10 (5 Jan)
∙ Full support for Org Social v1.6 specification

🌐 Ecosystem Growth

∙ 50 feeds on the official Org Relay! 🎊
∙ New “Ecosystem Developers” section in official documentation
∙ Org Social surpassed twtxt in activity (609 vs 603 posts in Q1)

Thank you all for being part of this journey! ❤️

#emacs #orgmode #orgsocial #FOSS #decentralized

We've reached 50 feeds on the official Org Relay! 🎊 😵‍💫

Reading new posts every day from people who are passionate about Emacs, programming, music, video games... It's priceless!

Thank you all for this small achievement, which marks a significant milestone for Org Social 😍

#orgsocial #orgmode #emacs

...okay, this is just out of curiosity, but now that it's on Melpa, org-social.el works “relatively well” even on GNU/Emacs mobile.

“Sapevatelo!” as a great Italian comedian used to say.

P.S. I use unexpectedkeyboard 😉

#orgmode #orgsocial #emacs #mobile #android #experiment

Version 1.6 of Org Social is released!

- Added `#+LOCATION:` global metadata field for user location (city, country).
- Added `#+BIRTHDAY:` global metadata field for user birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Added `#+LANGUAGE:` global metadata field for space-separated language codes (ISO 639-1) that the user speaks.
- Added `#+PINNED:` global metadata field to pin a post to the top of the profile using its ID (timestamp).
- Post ID can now be specified in the header (after `**`) in addition to the `:ID:` property in the properties drawer. Both formats are valid. If both are present, the header value takes priority.

There are no plans to release further versions; this can be considered the final or stable version. A process to adapt the existing software will now begin. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

#orgmode #orgsocial #emacs

We are excited to announce a new "Ecosystem Developers" section in the official Org Social documentation! 🎉

https://github.com/tanrax/org-social?tab=readme-ov-file#ecosystem-developers

This section recognizes the incredible work of developers who have contributed clients, tools, libraries, and integrations to the Org Social ecosystem.

#orgsocial

Org Social 1.5 is here!
New feature: mention-only posts with :VISIBILITY: mention. Now you can create posts visible only to mentioned users. Perfect for focused discussions without cluttering everyone's timeline.
Remember!: this is a UI preference, not encryption. Files remain public by design.
Check the docs: https://github.com/tanrax/org-social
#orgmode #emacs #orgsocial

In the first quarter, Org Social already surpassed twtxt in activity.

- Org Social: 609 posts (50.2%)
- twtxt: 603 posts (49.8%)

The difference is only 6 posts; it's practically a technical tie. But even so, it's a good sign.

I'll try to find time to write a post so others can reproduce the data. The methodology wasn't complicated: reading the feeds registered at relay.org-social.org/feeds/ and reading the HTML feed from twtxt.net. There may be more active feeds, but I'm not aware of them.

#orgmode #orgsocial #emacs #twtxt