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Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

OldHand2018 wrote: post #28
phre4k wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's currently a VPS rented from Strato.de, one of the biggest German hosting providers.

Since I'm paying out of my own pocket I currently don't want to afford a colocated server, even though I realise that'd be cooler and possibly more secure.

I'll try to have a detailed cost overview online somewhere soon-ish.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

coronadisaster wrote: post #39
phre4k wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't but currently the ssh registration script is nonfunctional.

Once that's working again you'd just have to give a fake mail address, but you won't be notified if we created an account for you this way.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by phre4k »

soraminazuki wrote: post #43
a3y3 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they were public keys, it's completely fine if the entire world sees them

Perhaps the parent commenter is worried of public keys being used as a tracking vector?

Then they should create one key per service and only use that one.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by Marcus316 »

Etheryte wrote: post #19
hnzix wrote: post #2

An 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.

Sadly, the narrator of this set of audio readings has moved on from the project, to my knowledge.

That may be for the best, though. Some of the charm (in my own opinion) is that this little project was a gem to discover, a bit ephemeral, and special in its scarcity.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by Marcus316 »

VLM wrote: post #45

So is this a BBS? I find that amazing that the BBS acronym doesn't show up although it would seem an obvious comparison.

It's a bit like a BBS, yes, and that's what drew me to the concept initially (I'm an early member of tilde.town; still reasonably active).

We do have an internal bulletin board, and an internal IRC (like the chat rooms of multi-line BBSes of the late 80s/early 90s). There are a ton of little projects by members, and the projects are pretty varied.

I find it a fun place to hang out, personally.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by mspe »

DNied wrote: post #21
pengaru wrote: post #9

Earlier 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…

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.

Currently: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by Marcus316 »

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.

(Long time tilde.town member here)

This is a fair criticism. There is a bit of a barrier to entry here. I think pengaru is unnecessarily harsh in his response.

The server has a limited number of admins (really only a single main administrator with a handful of volunteer helpers), and the process of adding an account is mostly manual at the moment, I believe (with some helper scripts, of course). There are efforts underway to improve this.

In the end, though, this is just one person's fun little side project. We're along for the ride, and I would like the admin to keep enjoying his project so I can share in that joy. If they don't have the time to address signup process improvements, I figure that's OK ... we're not in this for money or fame or anything, right? It's just ... fun (IMO).

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by mspe »

You could also take a look at:

* tilde.club

* tilde.team

* ctrl-c.club

* tilde.institute

* thunix.net

* remotes.club

* yourtilde.com

* envs.net

* squiggle.city

* aussies.space

* radiofreqs.space

* rw.rs

* tilde.pw

* dimension.sh

* breadpunk.club

* cosmic.voyage

* hackers.cool

* rawtext.club

* tilde.black

* tilde.pink

I'm sure many others do exist…

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by justusthane »

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.

There are dozens or hundreds of other hosts in the tildeverse that you could check out. I'm a member of ctrl-c.club, which has a much shorter sign-up form.

Re: tilde.town: A social network over SSH

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Post by alexeldeib »

phre4k wrote: post #53
soraminazuki wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps the parent commenter is worried of public keys being used as a tracking vector?

Then they should create one key per service and only use that one.

Which they've done from the sound of it, and are concerned about the ability to read those other public keys and use them as a tracking vector.
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