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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by scarmig on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:44PM (#25697140)
That prompted me to imagine what a parody of a GNU-style Twitter would look like, and yes, the connection works from the opposite direction.
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by neilpanchal on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:51PM (#25697193)
Tilable interface, requires days to set it up, tweet with i "Hello World!" <ESC> t, native vim keymap support, and hard to quit.
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by jcranmer on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:58PM (#25697246)
> tweet with i "Hello World!" <ESC> t, native vim keymap support

vim is not GNU, emacs is.

That means it would actually be <M-t> Hello World! <C-x> <C-s>, and the documentation would have a lengthy section on what the "Meta" key is and why not just call it "Alt".

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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by dexen on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:21AM (#25697927)
Neither actually :-)

EMACS dates back to 1976 (David Moon & Guy Steele); vi also dates back to 1976 (Bill Joy).

GNU Project dates back "only" to 1983, with GNU Emacs soon after: 1984.

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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by tarboreus on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:52AM (#25701942)
It's maintained by GNU. GNU Emacs is the modern Emacs.
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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by neilpanchal on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:21AM (#25697476)
That's unnecessarily complicated. The vim way is better.
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