tilde.town: A social network over SSH
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Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#32I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up". And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
Bah, back in my day you had to send the sysadmin a postcard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#Postcardware) to get your account approved ;)
The picture database of all the postcards is still around [https://freeshell.de/postcards/] .
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 metho…
I've really liked metafilters $5 lifetime membership model. Seems to work
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#34I'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 admin a smaller pubnix/tilde, for me I tie down email, inbound connections, some strict resource limits per user, and keep a close eye on anything running. I'm sure if I start getting more users it'll become more time consuming but with a decent logging and sensible security practices you could probably negate the vast majority of bad actors.
Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH
#35If you'd like a guided tour of the tildeverse, there's one on The Dork Web: https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-5 Also relevant community: https://tildes.net/~tildes
tildes.net is an independent, nonprofit reddit replacement.
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#36Hey, I'm a user here! I never expected a tilde site to get on Hacker News again; I thought the wave of interest in the tildeverse died out years ago.
I don't really use the HTML part of it; I only interact on the command-line forum and play with some of the games/sims.
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#37For good or bad, that scrolling title really reminded of the early 90's HTML galore <3
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#38I'm always wary of using SSH services which aren't running on systems I control. If I'm not mistaken, an SSH service is able to see all of the pubkeys you have in your ~/.ssh/, so there goes your privacy.
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#39I 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.
Why do you need an email address? Reddit & HN don't.
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#40pretty neat, i signed up. reminds me of the days hanging out on sdf.lonestar.org.