I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
It's probably better like this, don't worry.
tilde.town: A social network over SSH
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#12I'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…
> ~town is by far the largest multiuser system I've logged into in the last decade
You may wish to look at sdf.org then.
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#14There are lot many good Tildes out there which forms Tildeverse : https://tildeverse.org
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#15I'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. ;)
My ~/public_html 25+ years ago :-)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm curious, what are the "good" methods for discerning/filtering quality of people? How are "good" and "bad" quality of people categorized? (binary? spectrum/distribution?) How can you estimate/measure the quality of the filter/method with precision?
I assume no filter is perfect and mistakenly filter out "good" quality people too, so if this method isn't good that suggest there's a metric and a more efficient method out there. In your personal experience what worked better?
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#17I 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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#18I'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. ;)
Ah a public shell, fond memories. I used to have a nic-nac-project (now freeshell.de?) account some 15 years ago. It was my first exposure to Debian, which led me to order a free mail-in CD of Ubuntu Warty Warthog. These were different times.
Unfortunately public shells largely went the way of the dodo due to how cheaply you can get a VPS now (and not worry about resource quota, ulimits, local exploits or lack of root access...)
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#19An interesting monologue about pseudonymity hidden here: http://tilde.town/~karlen/nowertb/anonymous.mp3
This is uniquely precious and I wish there was RSS to subscribe to new entries.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> ~town is by far the largest multiuser system I've logged into in the last decade You may wish to look at sdf.org then.
I'm aware of sdf.org, and I haven't logged into it in over a decade :)