tilde.town: A social network over SSH
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tilde.town: A social network over SSH
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Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#2An interesting monologue about pseudonymity hidden here: http://tilde.town/~karlen/nowertb/anonymous.mp3
Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#3I'm not really sure I get the point... is there some kind of fuse mount that gives people the possibility to see live posts, user profiles, and other stuff? Are you directly logged into a game like shell when you connect? Or is this just plain old ssh to bash?
Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#4An interesting monologue about pseudonymity hidden here: http://tilde.town/~karlen/nowertb/anonymous.mp3
I've been listening to the other notes on there, and enjoying them. Where are the text posts that he's talking about though? All I see are these voice notes.
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#5I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up".
And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
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#6I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
Even such low barriers as a small form do wonders for the quality of people on the other side, you won't be missed. (if you genuinely can't be bothered)
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#7I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
Even such low barriers as a small form do wonders for the quality of people on the other side, you won't be missed. (if you genuinely can't be bothered)
Harsh but true, I remember telling my life story to sign up for text based message boards.
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#8I'm not really sure I get the point... is there some kind of fuse mount that gives people the possibility to see live posts, user profiles, and other stuff? Are you directly logged into a game like shell when you connect? Or is this just plain old ssh to bash?
I had this anti-climax moment a couple months back when my low-tech loving friends were fawning over Tildeverse.
For anyone who remembers the internet of the past 15 years, it's just public home dirs in server/~username. An old feature of web servers.
And then they link to each others home dirs on some directory site. We used to call this a web ring. ;)
Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#9I'm not really sure I get the point... is there some kind of fuse mount that gives people the possibility to see live posts, user profiles, and other stuff? Are you directly logged into a game like shell when you connect? Or is this just plain old ssh to bash?
It's a community, like HN is, but accessed via ssh instead of http. So it's a community where the active participants necessarily can navigate a shell, irc client, tmux/screen, and maybe even prefer socializing in that environment vs. something like the web or mobile apps. Access is also a privilege which can be taken away. So everyone you interact with there is either new or cooperative and mature enough to not get banned from a shared resource with very few safeguards preventing abuse.
~town is by far the largest multiuser system I've logged into in the last decade, not that I've been looking. It kind of reminds me of the university UNIX systems I dialed into in the 90s, fingering users to read their plans, updating my .plan, running ytalk to chat with friends, email w/pine, and usenet w/tin.
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#10I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
Even such low barriers as a small form do wonders for the quality of people on the other side, you won't be missed. (if you genuinely can't be bothered)
From personal experience in running similar things, they aren't a good method of discerning quality of people.