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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 cli
by pengaru 6y ago
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.
- Krisando 6y ago> ~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.
- DNied 6y agoWhat 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.
- mspe 6y agoCurrently: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
- jamestomasino 6y agoYou can find that info and more about all the member tildes of the tildeverse (including tilde.town) on the tildeverse website here: https://tildeverse.org/members/ https://tildeverse.org/members/
- johnchristopher 6y agoI still don't get it... so, there's an IRC client you can access on a server, using ssh credentials to login and there's a public folder that gets served by a static web server ? How do people interact on that social network (sending messages, pictures, etc.) ?