💻 Tilde Social

A flat-file social network.

1. Description
2. CLI utility
3. Future plans
4. Release notes

Description

Tilde Social is intended to be used on shared tilde servers (like tilde.town).

All of your data is contained in your home directory, and others read your files to display information.

User file system

When you initialize an account, you will have the following in your ~/.social directory:

• config - profile information
• following - list of users you are following
• posts - list of posts you've published

CLI utility

The network is interacted with via a single python script. On tilde.town it is globally linked as timeline.

You can use the following commands (example: timeline feed):

• init - To create a new profile, it will ask you a few questions and generate files for you
• users - View a list of users who have a profile
• feed - View a feed of users you follow
• local - View a feed of all users
• me - View your profile
• following - View a list of users you follow
• followers - View a list of users who follow you
• mentions - View a list of posts you're mentioned in
• post Message to post - Post a new message, everything in the quotes will be posted
• follow username - Follow a user
• unfollow username - Unfollow a user
• following username - View a list of users another uesr is following
• followers username - View a list of users who follow a user

Future plans

Here are some features I'd like to add in the future if there is enough people using it:

• Require posts to be in quotes
• Allow commands with usernames to have tildes
• Make post interactive "timeline post" and then a prompt for the text
• Add following and follows you to profiles
• Deleting a post from the CLI
• Boosting
• Replies
• View a specific post thread
• Hashtag support
• Limit feed and local with a number, such as "timeline local 5"
• A more interactive tui application
• Statically generated html files for use in the browser?
• Remote following users on other tildes?

Release notes

• v1.0.11 Added UTC to timestamp, added readme
• v1.0.10 Fixed bug where feed was backward
• v1.0.9 Fixed bug where specific user posts over 20 weren't loading
• v1.0.8 Resetting colors at the end of each line in a post, cleaned up whitespace between posts
• v1.0.7 Added following/follows you indicators on user list
• v1.0.6 Preventing future posts from displaying
• v1.0.5 Added support for multi-line posts, fixed bug where malformed posts are included in count limit
• v1.0.4 Updated to handle malformed posts
• v1.0.3 Added ability to post without wrapping your message in quotes
• v1.0.2 Added local timeline for all user posts
• v1.0.1 Updated timeline to include your own posts
• v1.0.0 Initial release with base functionality

👋 Hey! Thanks for reading! If you have any comments or questions about this post, or anything else, I'd love to chat! You can find the best way to contact me on my hello page or send me an email.