>_ thewall.social

A social network you type.

No feed, no likes, no algorithm. Rooms full of people, and a prompt that walks you into them.

guest:lobby$ look
 
latenight
anyone else awake or is it just me and the refrigerator — ren, 8h ago
poker
flopped a set, lost to runner-runner clubs, and then ti… — tuck, 3h ago
movies
watched the same film my dad had on every sunday. it is… — jameson, 2h ago
music
found my dad’s records in the garage. half of them are… — jameson, 2h ago
crypto
bought the top in 2021 and have not looked since. genui… — tuck, 1h ago
feedback
took me three goes to work out that go 12 opens a post… — ren, 1h ago
builders
rewired the lamp my grandmother left me and it works. i… — tuck, 50m ago
kitchen
the trick with the tomatoes is you roast them all at on… — marisol, 40m ago
commons
the AC in my building has been out for three days and t… — marisol, 20m ago
feed
three days without AC and i have learned which of my ne… — marisol, 15m ago
 
make <name> opens a room of your own.

A real one, running on example rooms with example people in them. Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere.

open the prompt →read the rundown

Everything here is written by a person, to be read by a person. That is the whole product.

You always know where you are

The text in front of your cursor is your name, the room, and what you are reading. Nothing else on the screen has to say it.

jameson:music/12$ look
 
music/12  jameson, 2h ago
found my dad’s records in the garage.
2 replies — go 12

Rooms, not a feed

Walk in, read what people said, say something back. A room has a last post and you can reach it. Nothing here scrolls forever.

guest:lobby$ go kitchen
 
kitchen
what you cooked

Reading asks nothing of you

No account to look around. Say something and you are asked for a name and where to send a sign-in link — no password — and the sentence you already typed goes up with it.

guest:kitchen$ say the trick is roasting them all at once
 
what should i call you?
your sentence is held — you will not type it twice.

Links look like the thing they point at

Send somebody a room, or one conversation inside it, and the preview is that conversation — drawn by the site out of the same lines you would have read on the screen. The picture below is not a mock-up of one. It is the live card for the music room, made when this page loaded.

The share card for the music room: a terminal window showing what people have been saying in it.

There is a prompt waiting, and people behind it.

thewall.social, illustrated: a terminal window listing rooms and the commands look, go, who and theme, beside the words "social network, but in command prompt".

open the prompt →