On 2026-02-18, Kurt Weiske wrote:
To: Beej Jorgensen
Beej Jorgensen wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-
https://connect.sdf.org/
I'm a big fan, MetaARPA member. It's not always the most stable in
terms of the extra services they run, but the core is solid. And the museum is excellent. (I've heard. I *almost* got to go there the last time I was in Seattle. Soon!)
Have you looked at the "tildeverse"?
Not quite as historical as some of the memories here, but "tildes" are usually single *nix boxes supporting a small group of like-minded
users. They offer shell accounts, email, web, gopher and gemini spaces,
news and IRC. (The name "tilde" came from ISPs that offered web space
with isp.net/~username URLs...)
They've gone modern, some have fediverse spaces now, too. Many seem to
have roots in SDF.
SDF also has some members-only instances (social.sdf.org, among one or
two other regional ones?), and an open instance (mastodon.sdf.org). But
at least social.sdf.org isn't really very stable, and has shown signs of
issues over a long time (pointing to either something broken in Mastodon
itself or some issue on that specific instance). Once every few months,
using social.sdf.org via brutaldon ends up being a lottery where either
you get the requested content or you're redirected to the brutaldon
about page because something failed (brutaldon could perhaps use better
error handling too).
(Do note, I'm not saying it's slow - it is, but that would be
manageable, if it were slow but always worked properly, but it's
sometimes mixed with failures.)
Ended up joining another instance because of that and of the 500 char
limit (which really is a flaw from upstream Mastodon; some instances
have patched it, but it still needs patching...)
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Nuno Silva
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