The tildeverse is a loose association of like-minded tilde communities. If you're interested in learning about *nix (linux, unix, bsd, etc.) come check out member tildes and sign up!
Tildes are pubnixes in the spirit of tilde.club.
History
Pre-Tildeverse
The first “tilde” known as tilde.club by Paul Ford[1], started on September 30, 2014[2], provided shell accounts and basic services for its users.[3] While public-access systems have existed decades before tilde.club, this is the first well-known pubnix to use the "tilde" name, referring to ~/, or a user's home directory.
Due to how fast tilde.club grew, the admin was left unable to handle all the new user requests, and due to its growing wait-list, different servers became available. These servers include tilde.town by vilmibm which was founded 11 days after tilde.club on October 11, 2014[2], Ctrl-c.club by calamitous which was founded 67 days (about 2.2 months) after the start of tilde.club on December 6, 2014[2].
In 2017, 973 days (about 2.67 years) after the founding of tilde.club, on May 30, 2017[2], tilde.team by Ben Harris would eventually start and quickly grow due to high interest. Later that year, 1,185 days (about 3.3 years) after the start of tilde.club, on December 24, 2017[2], yourtilde.com by Deepend would be founded, although it and many of the tildes that would come after it would end up remaining smaller in size (based on total registered users) in comparison to the older ones. Despite this, their communities still thrived in their own ways.
Then, over a course of time between April and June in 2018, tilde.team, tilde.town, and yourtilde would come together to form the Tildeverse.
Currently
Since the founding of the Tildeverse, dozens of new people have joined one more member tildes, and non-member tildes alike. At this point, members consisted solely of "general purpose" tildes, or tildes that primarily served as a general shell server and community, powered by the GNU/Linux operating system.
Around this time the IRC network known as tilde.chat would be started among the three tildes. It continues to exist today with a total of 10 nodes.
In the coming months, the Tildeverse would see an increase in membership, including envs.net by Sven Kinne (environments, another general-purpose tilde) which started 1,411 days (about 3.9 years) after the start of tilde.club on August 11, 2018[2], cosmic.voyage by James Tomasino (based around a collaborative science-fiction universe rather than just UNIX in general) 1,512 days (about 4.1 years) after the start of tilde.club on November 20, 2018[2], and tilde.institute by gbmor (powered by OpenBSD rather than GNU/Linux) 1,514 days (about 4.1 years) after the start of tilde.club, 2 days after cosmic.voyage, on November 22, 2018[2].
In 2019, the Tildeverse would see the starts of more new tildes with a wider array of purposes along with revivals of older systems. The first revival in 2019 was thunix.net by amcclure, naglfar, and ubergeek (based on the now defunct thunix.org by hexhaxtron of which amcclure and naglfar were admins) which started 1,594 days (about 4.4 years) after the start of tilde.club on February 10, 2019[2], and the first new tilde of the year, aussies.space (a general-purpose tilde for people in and around Australia) which started 1,603 days (about 4.4 years) after the start of tilde.club on February 19, 2019[2]. In the next month, 6 new tildes would start and join the Tildeverse. These included radiofreqs.space by nonlinear (for those interested in radio) which started 1,654 days (about 4.5 years) after the start of tilde.club on April 11, 2019[2], rw.rs by adsr (a 90s-style tilde) which started 1,656 days (about 4.5 years) after tilde.club on April 13, 2019[2], tilde.pink by tiwesdaeg (originally gopher-only tilde, later gained gemini) which started 1,657 days (about 4.5 years) after tilde.club on April 14, 2019, the now late tilde.center by aewens (focused on decentralization) which has an estimated start date of July 8, 2019[2], or 1,742 days (about 4.8 years) after the start of tilde.club, the now late tilde.black by tomasino (a privacy focused tilde) which was started 1,656 days (about 4.5 years) after the start of tilde.club on April 13, 2019[2], and Wilde by TechEmporium (the first and possibly only Windows tilde) which was started 1,791 days (about 4.9 years) after the start of tilde.club on August 26, 2019[2].
Things would then be rather silent outside of tilde.chat until September 28, 2018, where an email was sent out regarding tilde.club to the entire back-list letting them know that the tilde is under new management, and that they will now be getting an account on the new tilde.club[4].
In late 2020, Texto-plano.xyz by ffuentes (the second-known Spanish language tilde) joined the Tildeverse, and was started 2,222 days (6.1 years) after the start of tilde.club on October 30, 2020[2].
Unfortunately between 2019 and 2020, some of these tildes would go offline. tilde.club would go down and be removed from the Tildeverse member list on July 24, 2019 with focus being shifted to the tildex project, Wilde would go offline temporarily and be removed from the Tildeverse member list on August 9, 2020 due to a disagreement between the admin and hosting sponsor over the site style used on YourTilde, and tilde.black would go down and be removed from the Tildeverse member list on August 31, 2020 due to service abuse.[5] Wilde would later come back in early 2021 through efforts outside of the Tildeverse made in part by its former admin and Wilde's founder.
External Links
Services available to tildeverse members
Services with pages about them
- tilde.chat - IRC network
- tilde.zone - mastodon instance
- tt-rss - rss feed reader for the tildeverse
- cryptpad
- rfcs - an RFC system for the tildeverse
- zine - articles and other creations
- journal - the Intentional Journal of the Tildeverse
- ttm.sh - nullpointer simple file sharer
- uucp
- tilde.news - link aggregator for the tildeverse
- tildenet - inter-tilde net on lan via wireguard
- quotes - quote database for the tildeverse network
- gopherhole - tildeverse gopher hole and proxy
- .tilde
- pleroma - pleroma instance for the tildeverse
- news - tildeverse news service (NNTP) website
- paste - privatebin for the tildeverse
- drone - tildegit drone service
- modded - the modded server site.
- SLBR - SUICIDE LINUX BATTLE ROYALE
- crawl- a roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.
- minecraft - tildeverse minecraft server
- lists - tildeverse mailing lists
- tildegit - gitea instance for tildeverse
- tilderadio - tildeverse radio
References
- ↑ I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds - Paul Ford - Medium.com
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Tildeverse Members
- ↑ What are "Tildes" and how you can use "Tilde Computing" - Anton McClure - Nyku.net
- ↑ The return of tilde.club - Anton McClure - Nyku.net
- ↑ https://tildegit.org/tildeverse/site/commits/branch/master