One-click Social Media Client

October 16, 2022

Reddit: Dashboard and details view

Twitter: Dashboard and details view

Tumblr: Dashboard and details view

GNU Emacs as a Social Media Client

Consumption of social media typically necessitates few repeated actions - like, share, comment and follow. If these actions are assigned to convenient keyboard keys, the consumption becomes easier - no more pointing and clicking tiny icons. Here's an attempt to unify this experience using GNU Emacs, tumblesocks and oauth2.

(require 'tumblesocks)

(require 'oauth2)

;; service below is one of twitter, reddit or tumblr
(setq tumblesocks-service-conf
(service . (client-id secret-key redirect-url))

Use M-x sm-twitter , M-x sm-reddit or M-x sm-tumblr. First time, it will open a browser window. You'll need to login to the service and allow the permissions in following window. Then you'll be redirected to a URL. You'll need to copy the code (code=value#_) in the URL without the # and _ . Then you can use l for like, r for reblog, b for viewing a different channel, g for refresh, RET for detail view, n for next post, p for previous post etc.

Goals

Keyboard based action
Page navigation instead of endless scroll
List view (for home and timelines) and detailed view (for threaded discussion)

Concepts

Sites use different terminology for some concepts. Here are few of them

Channel - sub-reddit, blogs or timelines
Like: Upvote
Share: Reblog, retweet
Comments: Notes, replies

https://github.com/atamariya/tumblesocks
https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs/-/blob/dev/lisp/wid-edit.el (Tree widget)
https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs/-/blob/dev/lisp/net/oauth2.el (Oauth2 commit: 5d54ed16363d27b14f533b6e2755ccacc46b8038)

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One-click Social Media Client