Any Tilde Town members here?
A few years ago when I was new to tildes a typed tildes.com directly in the URL bar. I realized I'd forgotten the correct domain extension and did a web search for "tildes community" or something similar.
One of the results was for tilde town . At the time I glanced over it and thought about joining but I never got around to it. Last July I somehow stumbled over it again and this time I applied to join.
It's a pretty cool place.
The idea is that it's a Linux server that each user gets an account on. You then ssh into it - and that's where the community lives!
They have a chat system, a forum system, microblogging that's private to that community, command line games (some of which are multi-player) and a bunch of other really neat features. Each user even gets a folder in their home directory that let's them serve up public web pages.
Technically they have about 2,000 registered users, but the number of actual active users seems to be similar to our community here.
The vibe reminds me a lot of what we have here except that tilde town is casual "slice of life" only and doesn't do news articals at all. Some of their forum posts are similar to our own, with posts for what people are reading and watching and what projects they are working on.
Ive enjoyed my time there so far and I'd encourage any one who's interested to check it out. My username over there is grendel84, stop by and say hi!
tilde.town is my primary "social media". it's where i do the majority of my socializing and interacting with people. i've made some very good friends there over the years.
it is an absurdly welcoming and creative community. it has always attracted healthy mix of techy and non-techy people. it's a wonderful melting pot. and it is quite productive too: it has an annual zine currently on its 6th issue, a couple of albums on bandcamp, lots of nifty little programs on town, a podcast, and plenty of other collaborative projects.
check it out!
EDIT: tildetown stuff
a slew of other resources for the greater tilde community can be found at tildeverse:
tilde.town was inspired by tilde.club, which was closed to new members for several years but recently reopened under new admin'ship. tilde.club and then tilde.town spawned a trend in creating these "tilde" servers and now there are a bunch, several of which you can find here: https://tilde.team/wiki/other-tildes
The idea of these tildes is very much a continuation of the much older legacy of Public Access UNIX systems, like SDF.org which still exists, and many even older ones that no longer exist. The first ones were way back in the early 1980s, before the public internet, when people had to use a modem to dial in directly to the server.
Oh cool, I knew about the old school public Unix servers and assumed it was inspired by that, but I didn't know about tilde.club or that there were other similar communities.
Oh my word, just going there game me huge MUD nostalgia. It looks interesting, I may swing around again for a second look.
They do have some MUD games on there. I'm honestly impressed with variety of things to do there, it's worth checking out.
I've linked it before, but Genesis MUD is still going, with a relatively active and passionate community.
Hi! I'm a Towner, and indeed often when I talk about this site people mistake it for that community. My experience with the Town has been much more positive than here, though, I must say. I'd rather not state my username outright but it's easy to guess, or I'll tell you in DMs.
A lot of familiar faces in this thread :) The tildeverse is wonderful, as is the greater universe of pubnices and BBSes.
I also thought tildes was part of the tilde community awhile back. I'm part of tildes.institute myself.
Oh cool, is that tilde focused around a particular topic or another general community?
Hey I'm late to the party, but I am also a long time member of .town and .team. I'm piusbird obviouslly