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Taking Back The Internet With The Tildeverse (hackaday.com)
submitted 4 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hi. I'm the guy that tipped HaD off to these things.

Tilde communities predate the Tildes 'service.' and is effectivly a return/recreation of the pre-graphical web service model of 'you're connecting with a specific machine and using its services.'

No it isn't for everyone, and sadly no while most have email services gmail, icloud, etc refuse to interact with them.

I like it, but I'm functionally insane. It gives me a place to post static sites and my gemini based blog.

==========

https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082

gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~singletona082

singletona082@ctrl-c.club

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice gopher site! I recently(?)made one as well. Its kinda fun and easy to do. That CSS is awesome!

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gemini actually.

And the CSS for the http site is literally from ctrl-c's main page with a few values tweaked, as i didn't like fullblack on background, and I edited the widths a bit. I think.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woops I always get those mixed up in my head. Which is silly.

I need to find time and look at all the amazing zines that are out there. ctrl-zine looks fun.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next issue releases in April. We switched to quarterly because, to be honest, there was editor burnout trying to scrape for content each month and the zine ended up being like... three articles. VERY underwhelming.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I can see that!

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Specifically check out tilde.town, it's really cool. For more general information about the tildeverse, go to tildeverse.org

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I never heard about the tildeverse before, sounds really interesting. How does one choose which tilde to join, though? It seems to me like only cosmic.voyage has a specific theme, while the rest only differ in the OS running on the machine. Or are tildes just there to host your account, while all the interactions are done via irc?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tildeverse.org seems like it got a Lemmy hug if death. I can't access it anyways.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

It's back up now

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The resurgence of a lot of pre-web protocols is interesting, but I'm not entirely sure it's going to be a sticky thing beyond a novelty.

Also 100% agree with the first comment that on an article about the small web half the content is YouTube videos being hilariously tone-deaf ironic. If only there were some other method of sharing videos with people. Perhaps some sort of tube that's peer-to-peer? A PeerTube, if you will.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And thus you miss the point that tomasino used youtube as outreach. He also posts to peertube.

https://tilvids.com/c/tomasino_channel/videos

Now me linking to youtube when telling them about it was kindof an 'on me' sort of problem, but at the same time you need to make people aware a thing exists and to do that you must get outside of the thing's bubble.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If only there was a way to communicate without videos. The Mesopotamians had something like that but the technology was unfortunately lost.

[–] HC4L@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

While I hate the videofication of everything as much as the next person. Looking at a regular website these days is even worse than YouTube with ads.. Cookies bro? You want to subscribe? Can we send you browser messages?? Here are 10 ads that move the text around that you were just reading..

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

The art of storytelling existed long before writing.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm sure absolutely nobody will confuse this with Tildes.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Tilde/Pubnix came first.

First one was a thing in 1982. SDF opened in 1989 as a unix server (was an apple IIe bbs in 1985.)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 4 months ago

You mean it's not?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Too late, I already did.

[–] doc@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

Same. Assumed tildes from just the title.

[–] DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Seems like they haven't gained traction since the reddit exodus. I wonder how the other alternatives are doing. Lemmy has a decent amount of activity at least, although I still wish more people would use it.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, it was originally seeded with people from the meta mod community in Reddit and so they brought all that with them.

Some discussions are awesome, but anything remotely controversial is a pure echo chamber and you’ll get shouted down if you dissent.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago

This is literally the first time I've heard it being mentioned since the exodus

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of sdf.org.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

SDF is kind of the grandaddy of it all. There is another system from 82, that is now under the care of SDF.

[–] vanderbilt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I’m loving the lore of the “tildeverse”, check out https://cosmic.voyage/ starting with the log entries. Feels like Futurama meets Unix Surrealism.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

...that reminds me. I need to update the Stormsong ship logs....

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Here's my old homepage hosted on a tilde on the Gemini protocol

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/tilde.team/~smokey/

Here's my new homepage hosted on a different tilde I just got up and running yesterday since the old tilde maintainer stopped communication a few months ago

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/envs.net/~smokey/

The new one is bare bones right now I will work on moving over some of the better logs and articles. I talk about it more in the log I wrote up last night

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/envs.net/~smokey/logs/2024-09-16-im-back.gmi

Learn more about envs.net tilde

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If one's interest isn't in learning about Linux, host anything, do storytelling, run a radio station, or play Minecraft, there's pretty much nothing to do there. 🤷‍♂

[–] anzo@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

You just mentioned what really is available nowadays. If you could mention an example of a "web interest" that's not covered, perhaps someone could start it on the tildeverse...

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago

On a related note, I host the Guardian to gopherspace here: gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/1/the-guardian

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Gopher. Now that's a long time since I heard that name.

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Interesting. Please click the link, it worth your time