Social Engine

Follow public networks, and keep what they post in your memory.

Pick the networks you follow and the accounts, communities or keywords that matter. Social Engine scans their public posts and stores each one in a vault named SOCIAL. The chat can then find them like any other memory.

The cartridge id is @mnemosyne-plugins/social-engine, under the MIT licence. Its screens are in English only.

The networks

Network	What it reads	Targets
Reddit	the public JSON feed	your communities and account, tracked subreddits and users
Hacker News	the Algolia API	your account, tracked authors, keywords
Mastodon	public timelines on any instance	your account, tracked accounts, hashtags
RSS	any RSS or Atom feed	your feeds, tracked feeds
YouTube	the public channel feed	your channel, tracked channels (by channel id)
Bluesky	public author feeds	your handle, tracked handles

X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok show as Coming soon. They need a login or API access that Social Engine does not have.

First steps

1. On Build your social memory, press Activate on a network.
2. Open its Settings tab. Add targets under Yours (communities and accounts you own) and Tracked (sources you follow but don't own).
3. Press Sync now, or Run scan now in Scan tasks.

The + button in the left rail opens Manage networks, to add or remove one.

The tabs

• Feed: the stored posts of this network, newest first. Open ↗ opens the original post in your browser.
• Settings: the targets, in Yours and Tracked.
• Scan tasks: a manual scan. Scheduled background scans are not built yet.
• Reports: what is in the feed, and what the last scan found and stored.

When a source rate-limits the scan, Social Engine says so. Reddit does it most often.

Where your data goes

• Each post is stored as one memory in the SOCIAL vault, tagged with its network and the target that produced it. Social Engine creates that vault at the first scan when it does not exist.
• The same post scanned twice is stored once.
• The networks you activated and their targets are kept in the cartridge's own browser storage.
• The scans fetch public pages only. Social Engine posts nothing.