tilde.club

December 3, 2014 2:33 PM

Hi MeFites: I thought the original tilde.club (previously on MeFi) was a really neat idea. Now that there is a larger proliferation of other tilde groups inspired by the original, with many accepting membership applications, I was wondering if any of you fine people are active users (or admins!).
posted by en forme de poire to MetaFilter-Related at 2:33 PM (27 comments total)

As someone who makes a lot of dumb websites and single serving pages I would love an invite or more info.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:49 PM on December 3, 2014

You don't need an invite to join any of these other groups (and there are apparently no more invitations forthcoming for the original).
posted by dfan at 5:58 PM on December 3, 2014

Yeah, I think in general it's not so much "snag an invite" as it is "submit a request for an account" for basically all of the various tilde-likes that are running; check the "other tilde groups" link in the post for a big collection of sites that have been started up. I'd say jump in with both feet somewhere and just go nuts.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:03 PM on December 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm up at Riot Girl Club but there isn't really anything there yet.
posted by troika at 6:04 PM on December 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yeah, most of the tilde groups have associated pages where you can request an account.
posted by en forme de poire at 6:43 PM on December 3, 2014

I also just got started on Riot Girl Club. I joined by just requesting an account through the signup form. This page has a bunch of the tilde clubs listed with their respective signup forms in the right-hand column.
posted by space cat at 6:46 PM on December 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

I'm the admin/creator of pebble.ink, which was inspired by tilde.club but not using their semi-official Puppet configuration. I'm happy to add more members if people are interested.
posted by phildini at 7:22 PM on December 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

I just retired my professional website from a ~ URL (IT people made me do it), so I guess I've quit the tilde club?
posted by advil at 8:36 PM on December 3, 2014

I'm an admin at the original tilde club and would be happy to help people get acquainted with the other tildes.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 9:02 PM on December 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

wtf, brain, I need to be looking for work, not wanting to set up mefi.club
posted by Pronoiac at 11:19 PM on December 3, 2014 [3 favorites]

SDF Public Access UNIX System has been in the "community on a server" game for a long time, with me as a happy customer since 2001. Not only does SDF offer web hosting, email and compilers, it also boasts an active community of users who post on the server's "bboard" BBS system and hang out in the "com" chat rooms. And it has recently jumped on the tilde bandwagon, if that's what you're after.
posted by msittig at 1:14 AM on December 4, 2014 [4 favorites]

tilde.town seems pretty cool. That's where I'm looking to set up a home.

Paul Ford's medium post is a great read on all this.
posted by naju at 1:40 AM on December 4, 2014

Hmm, maybe this is what I should use my tiny cloud server for life for $35 that I bought about a year back and have never used …
posted by scruss at 5:17 AM on December 4, 2014

Got ftrain's email about it the other day but haven't had time to do anything about it yet. Currently suffering from a dearth of ideas that would put the fire under me. Also because I might already have a website that's fallen into disrepair and whose redo I've been procrastinating on for, um, a couple years worth of "a while".
posted by ardgedee at 5:53 AM on December 4, 2014

I'm still on tilde at this username - I haven't made much progress on learning better HTML, but still updating some word definitions I had to look up at the bottom of my homepage. And eventually Snax Club will be a non-German-gay-club thing but right now it's mostly an excuse for me to buy Oreos and search for gifs.
posted by maryr at 10:56 AM on December 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

Got ftrain's email about it the other day but haven't had time to do anything about it yet.

Yeah I sort of suspect that may have precipitated a crazy flooding of the other available tilde boxes with signup requests -- oh well. Maybe it's time to just bite the bullet and get a linode!
posted by en forme de poire at 1:00 PM on December 4, 2014

I signed up at retronet.net just because it mentioned old school Cornell Unix. Haven't done anything with it yet other than verifying ssh and using fortune...
posted by RedOrGreen at 2:43 PM on December 4, 2014

I had several accounts on various free unix hosts and I must have at least one tilde. Although slow and limited the various systems are great to have around. But, the trick is remembering to log in often enough. Hmm, perhaps look into a project for an account consolidator/reminder.

But also, at one point these were rare. How many unix boxen are you carrying right now? (Both android and apple are essentially unix on the inside).
posted by sammyo at 10:32 AM on December 5, 2014

ok, just opened an account on tilde.town!
posted by en forme de poire at 2:44 PM on December 5, 2014 [2 favorites]

Same! I'm here.
posted by naju at 2:49 PM on December 5, 2014 [2 favorites]

I'm here at tilde.town too! No idea what I want to do with it yet but it'll be fun to figure it out.
posted by dialetheia at 10:41 PM on December 5, 2014 [1 favorite]

yay let's hang out on irc
posted by en forme de poire at 10:48 PM on December 5, 2014

via the random box link: totallynuclear.club, which you've gotta love (1) for the name, and (2) for the green on black L&F.

So what is this, and why is it all ssh and public key encryption? What do you do with it? (I have the same problem with ello - seriously, I think I am just getting old.)
posted by marienbad at 4:22 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

Just get an account on Panix.com. Then make a web page.
Here's mine.
posted by Obscure Reference at 8:05 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

I squeaked into one of the last rounds of signups on tilde.club, and have enjoyed that experience a lot.

I'm the main admin of squiggle.city. I've received maybe 30-40 signup requests there since ftrain's e-mail went out, so we're up to around 60 users. Judging by the current level of resources this is taking (basically nothing), we've got room for many more. Any interested MeFites would be a welcome addition. Signup process: Send me a desired username, a public key, and a promise not to be a jerk.
posted by brennen at 11:40 AM on December 7, 2014 [1 favorite]

Joined tilde.center in the last day or so... mainly because:

1) I've been using Unix for quite a while, never got my head around *BSD.
2) I didn't realise .center was a TLD.

It's all a bit quiet at the moment, but hopefully they'll get a MUD set up, I don't think I've ever really played one of those...
posted by DancingYear at 2:07 AM on December 14, 2014

It's all a bit quiet at the moment, but hopefully they'll get a MUD set up, I don't think I've ever really played one of those...

I started configuring a MUSH server I found in apt the other day. I managed to get to the point where I had a wizard account and a single room before completely bogging down.

Somewhere on my long list of future projects is to figure out what MUD/MUSH/MOO software's still maintained and see if there's something a little less painful to set up. The experience got me wondering if there's not a market for a modern one...
posted by brennen at 10:54 PM on December 15, 2014