Website creator redirected to Rick Astley, maybe they were getting too much traffic? Funny but weird and vaguely hostile without any explanation
The "tilde" part of the name comes from the ~ character, traditionally used to indicate a users public HTML directory.
For instance, if you were a user "dannyboy" on example.com you might host a website in /home/dannyboy/public_html and it'd be exposed via example.com/~dannoyboy
The tildeverse is amazing! So many creative folks in there and many of them can be found on irc.tilde.chat which is still widely used.
In some way, i find tilde servers to be some kind of hosting coop where users can tailor to their own needs and contribute more services to the shared infra. For example, thunix.net and fr.tild3.org both have public ansible recipes where users can submit patches.
With fellow people from ~fr, we published an article a few months back arguing how tilde servers change the power balance on the network during lockdowns: https://fr.tild3.org/en/blog/2021/may-first/
You can also visit them on gopher but some users don't have an active gopher space so it's a bit hit & miss sometimes (still less boring than mainstream web and its "here's what our algorithm thinks you will like")
Pretty sure I just got Rickroll'd...
Wow, I don't think I've been rickrolled since 2007.
There really should be a built in browser feature that prompts the user that the link they clicked redirects somewhere else.
From context it seems like an awesome community, the sort of thing I'd like to be a part of, and I'm sure some other folks here feel similarly; but it's been redirected to a rickroll video, which I'm guessing means something like, "Part of what makes this fun is that it's small and doesn't get too much attention, so move along please." Okay. wistful sigh
Sameless bread-promotion: I run a bread-themed tilde server here (with no rickroll): https://breadpunk.club
I was inspired by the tildeverse and all the friends I've made on IRC! It's great fun :) Highly recommend.
I got started with https://tilde.town, which is v comfy.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211119133814/https://tildevers...
Looks like it's just the homepage that's been rickrolled, the members page appears to be up: https://tildeverse.org/members/
> tildes are pubnixes in the spirit of tilde.club, which was created in 2014 by paul ford.
I don't know what any of that means.
I ran what you would now call a tilde server back in the 90s.
Then the Secret Service showed up at my door.
Be careful who you share with. Some of them might actually be a unabomber.
My static tilde page is still there; this will be my canary for community vs. company persistence.
It's rare to see a non-commercial walled garden. But that's what the tildeverse is.
Somewhat related question that I'm interested in knowing people's thoughts on...
If you have a website that contains user generated content aimed at technical folks what looks nicer (and maybe what are some more options?):
1. GitHub's implicit username: https://github.com/foo
2. Medium's @username: https://medium.com/@foo
3. Old style homedir (eg tildeverse): http://tilde.club/~foo
4. Explicit user folder: https://example.com/users/foo
My preference is not to use implicit usernames since you then would need to filter against a blocklist (something like https://github.com/marteinn/The-Big-Username-Blocklist). Anybody have any opinions?