tilde.town: A social network over SSH

Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by INTPenis on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:19AM (#24302223)

I had this anti-climax moment a couple months back when my low-tech loving friends were fawning over Tildeverse.

For anyone who remembers the internet of the past 15 years, it's just public home dirs in server/~username. An old feature of web servers.

And then they link to each others home dirs on some directory site. We used to call this a web ring. ;)

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Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:23AM (#24302567)

Ah a public shell, fond memories. I used to have a nic-nac-project (now freeshell.de?) account some 15 years ago. It was my first exposure to Debian, which led me to order a free mail-in CD of Ubuntu Warty Warthog. These were different times.

Unfortunately public shells largely went the way of the dodo due to how cheaply you can get a VPS now (and not worry about resource quota, ulimits, local exploits or lack of root access...)

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Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by m3talsmith on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:45AM (#24316436)

I learned a lot of basic Linux through the same shell provider back in the day!

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Re:tilde.town: A social network over SSH by pmontra on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:53AM (#24302409)

My ~/public_html 25+ years ago :-)

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