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Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.

• mxuribe 1y ago
  Well, there is https://plan.cat https://plan.cat ...which, hosts a user's plan files. :-) I guess think of it as a little microblog for displaying one's plan file?
  • lemonberry 1y ago
    This is kind of neat, thanks for sharing.
• temp0826 1y ago
  We're rewriting the books. finger was the first social network!
  • bitwize 1y ago
    I've observed that Unix itself was a social networking platform. Your Unix account was your identity across many services: email, finger, USENET, talk, etc. And it was distributed. And didn't rely on cruft like ActivityPub.
    • temp0826 1y ago
      Totally! ident alongside IRC too. So many reinvented wheels. (Side note- I'm a little sad that https is the only protocol used for everything anymore).
    • mtillman 1y ago
      Still is if you have an account on sdf.org.
• ethan_smith 1y ago
  Exactly - the finger protocol with .plan/.project files was essentially a proto-social network where users could publish status updates on Unix systems, and org-social follows that same decentralized, text-file-based philosophy but with modern tooling.