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This seems less "decentralized social network" and more "html-less www with extra steps," especially since it's only going to allow socializing between the specific types of people who fall within 3 very specific Venn diagram circles who 1) use emacs, 2) use org-mode, and 3) want to go through the trouble of hosting their own section of the network.

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I guess this is an internet for the folks who are still annoyed by the Eternal September?

I thought that was Gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Gemini is for hipsters who want to look like they like Gopher, but can't live without their cat pics.

(Said in jest, of course)

You reminded me that many years ago I gave some Microsoft sales folks grief for dropping Gopher from IIS, and then I wondered whether IIS still existed, and that led me to discover that iis.net was retired this summer.

https://www.iis.net/

And I still don’t know whether IIS itself still exists.

Gemini lives rent free in the heads of like 99% of HN users. It's really weird. Look at any Gemini network posts on here. So much hate for a little network that just sits there and does its thing.

And also 4) somewhat want to talk to other people ― but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.

> but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.

There's great news for the people who want to talk to other people and NOT exit emacs - you can get IRC built straight in.

https://github.com/emacs-circe/circe

Try as I might, I have not been successful in getting my wife to use IRC. I guess I should take that as a sign that she just doesn't want to talk to me...

There is a telegram client for emacs: telega.el https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el

The installation instructions are scary but It has been straightforward to install melpa version via use-package with telega-server in docker.

and a Matrix client! https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el

XMPP too, but no OMEMO encryption.

Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)

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