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Title: Design a microblog on RNS Author: transfer Posted the: 02 Feb 2026 10:07 Category: Reticulum
Design a microblog on RNS
Designing a centralized microblog is easy, but a decentralized one is difficult. In my mind, it's more like nostr. People send requests to multiple servers and combine the results. We shouldn't use broadcast to publish posts, right?
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Author: burgernode · Posted: 08 Feb 2026 23:56 · ❤️ 1
Reply: do what mastodon did, port activitypub to reticulum
Author: transfer · Posted: 11 Feb 2026 01:26 · ❤️ 0
Reply: An ideal blog is not just text, but also includes pictures and even videos. As blogs grow larger, things become more complex. Option 1: Everyone self-hosts, the trade-off being that they cannot go offline. Option 2 involves operating on a designated server. However, information retrieval becomes difficult, potentially leading to ecosystem fragmentation. Having a decentralized file system on RNS would simplify things considerably.
Author: meowing2000 · Posted: 13 Feb 2026 22:26 · ❤️ 1
Reply: Activitypub (or similar) on reticulum would go crazy.
Author: Sherb · Posted: 24 Feb 2026 21:25 · ❤️ 1
Reply: twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers. Using text file. Easy to implement in reticulum. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
Author: Cotteux · Posted: 04 Mar 2026 15:05 · ❤️ 1
Reply: We need to modify twtxt more than you think. they use http header for having status of the file like the update date. I don't think they have this in reticulum by default and we don't want to create a server. I think the best way is using buffers to read the first 500bytes and analyse the date here. Somebody with a better idea ??
Author: Cotteux · Posted: 08 Mar 2026 18:28 · ❤️ 0
Reply: OHH, I did it modify a little bit twtxt to use Retihtmlproxy and boom, it work. Able to host simple text file on rserver/rwebserver and fetch it with twtxt for blogging. Need to do more test but is a good start.
Author: Sherb · Posted: 22 Mar 2026 15:19 · ❤️ 0
Reply: Are they still peoples interested in decentralized microblog ? I'm working on one software using nomadnet to host a gmi file for personnal microblog using the tinylog standard (https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main) I will need peoples ready to build blogs, please sign up, will be helpful for testing.
Author: Sherb · Posted: 23 Mar 2026 20:16 · ❤️ 0
Reply: Blogs using tinylog on 3e05f77a9f0dbfc124f230862153c9f9 and on a67e616be560d90cb46e8d2bf3973b93
Author: Sherb · Posted: 27 Mar 2026 12:29 · ❤️ 0
Reply: How to blog on Nomadneta67e616be560d90cb46e8d2bf3973b93:/page/index.mupage=HOW TO BLOG ON RETICULUM
Author: Sherb · Posted: 27 Mar 2026 12:30 · ❤️ 0
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Author: transfer · Posted: 28 Mar 2026 07:31 · ❤️ 0
Reply: I've known about twtxt for a while now, and I've also seen Sherby's work these past few days. Multimedia issues remain a pain point. Reticulum's support for multiple media should be an advantage, not something that forces high-speed media to be limited to low-speed media.
Author: Sherb · Posted: 29 Mar 2026 15:28 · ❤️ 0
Reply: @transfer It's why i choose another format for my blog system using tinylog. with tinylog you can add images or videos in link and let's the client decide if you load it live or only on click.
Author: Vih · Posted: 01 Jun 2026 02:59 · ❤️ 0
Reply: I am also planning on making a decentralized microblogging system! I was looking at twtxt and nostr for inspiration, and figured out why not both? Why not something that can answer in multiple formats? About self-hosting and going offline - thats why LXMF Propagation Nodes exist, and something like this should have propagation nodes as well. At the bare minimum one should replicate the content of those you are following
Author: Sherb · Posted: 02 Jun 2026 22:10 · ❤️ 0
Reply: The project i'm working on, can cache content to redistribute them, you can do it all into the client.
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