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publish tweets via git commit messages from the CLI

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2025-08-18 · latest 2026-08-08

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  1. I made something similar Source: https://github.com/est/gitweets Demo: https://f.est.im/ The site and data is self-contained as a git repo. A git commit is a post. Blobs are pictures. Comments are stored in git notes.
  2. …is basically git clone & push There's another twitter-replacement, also based on git. https://github.com/est/gitweets Demo https://f.est.im/ it supports comments via git notes :D $0.01/day ? They are all completely free thanks to…
  3. Seems a bit complicated. Why not use git for social networking ;) https://github.com/est/gitweets
  4. I spent a weekend making a self-host twitter alternative. source: https://github.com/est/gitweets/ demo: https://f.est.im/ (renders via github API) Basically it renders its self git repo commit history as a feed timeline. Never lose your…