Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by sjmulder on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:08PM
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I've signed up for an account and played around a bit and while I love so much about the whole idea of it I don't really know what to do.
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by rmusial on Monday August 06, 2018 @09:25AM
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In my opinion that's part of the fun. SDF is almost like a unix system meets a MUD/MMORPG. You can read through some of the FAQs on sdf.org, but there is so much to just stumble on and discover.
Some fun first things are setup VOIP, check out anonradio, and type 'games' at your shell. Have some fun!
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by nihil75 on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:48PM
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I am Nihil, Dopewars world champion!!!
(SDF holds the only public leaderboard I'm aware of / care about)
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by rmusial on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:58PM
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That's another thing I love, I've been on there since 2003 and I had no idea that was a thing.
Very cool to meet you world champion Nihil
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by sincarne on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:59AM
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I love SDF, I've been on there for years. However I'm finding breakages and outages are getting a bit more frequent. Are you having a similar experience?
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
by rmusial on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:42AM
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I haven't had any recent issues. I know to support net neutrality they recently had a blackout of sorts (https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/100254429655079937) and some thought it was an outage.
It's a free shell service, with paid addons. It has been around since 1987 and retains a lot of the charm of the BBS world. It does this while offering very modern things like Mastodon federated social media, SQL storage, VOIP, and has amateur radio, minecraft, and a ton of other stuff. There really is something for everyone.
I appreciate all of the stuff listed above, but what I personally LOVE most about SDF is that it runs on NetBSD and offers a ton of packages from all the different open source and free software communities. BSD packages, GNU packages, home grown packages.
It's just a very friendly and fun place. I am 'rmusial' on there too. Feel free to say hello!