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tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by DNied »

pengaru wrote: post #9
LockAndLol wrote: post #3

I'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…

What OS are they running? Strangely enough, it's not mentioned in the FAQ and I couldn't find it with a cursory look at their wiki.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

I run tilde.fun. It's currently defunct but I'm migrating the site to a new server today.

We have an SSH signup form with no need for any personal details but an email address, written in Python, in the making (https://code.tilde.fun/tilde/ssh-reg) I'd really like to automate account creation and have someone look over it before I actually deploy it.

Write me an email (address in my profile) if you're interested in helping run/develop this or some MB of free HTML web hosting.

We are two admins and run a few other services (https://wiki.tilde.fun/tilde/start lists some of them). We want to take back the internet from megacorps into the hands of users. I have an empty server just waiting for some people with dank HTML skills!

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

tasubotadas wrote: post #5

I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.

Send me an email and I get you an account on tilde.fun.

It's pretty defunct right now but I'd like to have some actual users ;)

No need for any personal info besides your email address.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by severak_cz »

LockAndLol wrote: post #3

I'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 shared computer/server. You got your SSH key and log in.

It has some social features inside - BBJ (command line driven forum), IRC chat, "timeline" command (think of local twitter on command line).

However main difference is that it's up to you how can you interact it others. You can setup some scripts/games for others, or just present yourself in your public_html folder. I have created gallery of those homepages and these are very diverse - https://tilde.town/~severak/gallery/ - so much good stuff hidden there.

For example - I have created cronjob, that builds youtube playlist out of songs added by !sotd command on IRC - https://tilde.town/~severak/town_radio.html (for technical description see https://tilde.town/~severak/sotds.html)

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

OldHand2018 wrote: post #26

I'm curious about the general way tilde sites are administered. How do they keep people from using them as hosts for cyberattacks or spam?

I can only speak for tilde.fun, but it's helpful to not have any users currently (^^) and disable outside communication apart from ~/html/ where our users can put static files into.

Most tilde sites don't have public mail servers and only federate mail between them and other tilde servers. See also https://tilde.team/.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by OldHand2018 »

phre4k wrote: post #27
OldHand2018 wrote: post #26

I'm curious about the general way tilde sites are administered. How do they keep people from using them as hosts for cyberattacks or spam?

I can only speak for tilde.fun, but it's helpful to not have any users currently (^^) and disable outside communication apart from ~/html/ where our users can put static files into. Most tilde sites don't have public mail servers and only federate mail between them and other tilde servers. See also https://tilde.team/ .

Do you use a VPS on AWS or something like that, or an actual physical box?

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by codetrotter »

phre4k wrote: post #22

I run tilde.fun. It's currently defunct but I'm migrating the site to a new server today. We have an SSH signup form with no need for any personal details but an email address, written in Python, in the making ( https://code.tilde.fun/tilde/ssh-reg ) I'd really like to automate account creation and have someone look over it before I actually deploy it. Write me an email (address in my profile) if you're interested in…

> address in my profile

Note that the HN profile e-mail field is not public. That field is for password reset stuff or something.

If you want people to see your e-mail you will need to write what it is in the profile description.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by malux85 »

phre4k wrote: post #22

I run tilde.fun. It's currently defunct but I'm migrating the site to a new server today. We have an SSH signup form with no need for any personal details but an email address, written in Python, in the making ( https://code.tilde.fun/tilde/ssh-reg ) I'd really like to automate account creation and have someone look over it before I actually deploy it. Write me an email (address in my profile) if you're interested in…

I’ll help! I can do front end, backend and sysadmin work. I am willing to contribute funds to hosting too

alainr.richardt (at) (google mail service).com (I can’t see your email in your profile)

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