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What are some other sites/projects that have the same ethos as Tildes?
Tildes' guiding principles are laid out in its announcement post:
- Non-profit, no investors
- No advertising, user-supported
- Open, honest, and open-source
- Minimal user-tracking, better privacy
- High-quality content and discussions
- Limited tolerance, especially for assholes
I'm interested in other projects that line up with some or all of these principles. It doesn't have to be a site with the same function as Tildes, just the same feel. What else is out there that we should know about?
I'm happy to offer invites to tildes users, just pm me an email address.
Pinboard shares a lot of similar values and characteristics - it's very minimal on the technical end, recognizes that having users be the source of your revenue is the only way to avoid conflicts of interest, collects little data, and so on.
The guy that runs it has a lot of great talks about similar topics too: https://idlewords.com/talks/
Been using it since 2012. One of the rare things I use that kinda reached perfection.
I've recommended several Public Access Unix (and GNU/Linux!) Systems in the past and I think many fit pretty well with what you're asking for. The difference is that the majority of their social interactions occur on the command line, either through bulletin boards, IRC, or gopher. While you don't have to be a computer whiz to use them, it goes without saying that they tend to have a high number of geeks among their users.
There has been a lot going on with these "pubnix" sites in the past 12 months, with tons of new users and several new servers coming online. Some are very active.
These sites are very much in support of maintaining the non-commercial, non-exploitative Internet. It is a battle, but a fun and meaningful one.
To get a taste, here are a few:
https://tilde.town
https://tilde.team
https://sdf.org
http://circumlunar.space
I always offer myself up to help people get their foot in the door with these systems, so feel free to PM me if you (or anyone) is interested and doesn't know where to start.
There's also the emergence of the tildeverse, which is a loose collection of these like-minded pubnixes. It's mostly a place for member tildes to offer services up and a central place to socialize on irc and the like.
Hubski ticks most of those boxes.
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Not open source, but the guy who runs the site seems open and honest to me.
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Check, although it's not a very active site, even less so than Tildes.
Hubski has a high tolerance for assholes, instead offering users tools to filter the assholes from their feed and the comment sections.
It has some neat features as well. I like that you can follow tags, users, and domains. I think building the site around shares instead of upvotes is interesting. I like how video links, image links, and internal links all get embedded in posts and comments. I think using tags instead of communities is a good idea, and I like that users can add tags to posts other users have submitted.
Do you have a source for Hubski being a non-profit? I'm fairly sure that it's not (and don't know if there's even an actual company associated with it).
Hmm, no, I guess I just assumed.
It's a really good site. The activity is a little on the low side, but the quality of the discussions is always fairly high - I think because of the fact that most users know each other for a very long time, and are not afraid to argue if they believe that the other user is in the wrong. Makes for entertaining reading.