diracdeltas/tweets

What is this?

This is @bcrypt's janky twitter replacement.

Vision!

Show this thread! (here in the Readme)

Setup

• fork https://github.com/diracdeltas/tweets
• if you want a "clean" fork that doesn't have any of the helper scripts, do:

git reset --hard d10b092
git push -f origin main

Stuff you can do

• to post:

git commit -m --allow-empty
git push

• to follow someone:

git remote add <git name> <their fork of diracdelta's repo>
git fetch <git name>

• to follow everybody using GitHub: make everybody

• to repeat someone else's utterance:

git cherry-pick -x <their commit hash>

• people to follow

• to refresh your timeline and view it:

make refresh
make timeline

• some alternative ways to view your timeline (use git show <commit hash> to show the full "tweet"):

make timeline-graph
make timeline-short

• to get verified (GitHub-only):

1. follow github's own verification instructions and make your commit email match your GPG key email
2. git commit -S -m "your post" --allow-empty from now on

• to encrypt a message:

see encrypt using the public key of a github user in https://sshenc.sh/ or use your favorite key distribution mechanism to get their public key.

• to find a user @

make get_user q="User name"

or

make get_user [email protected]