====== tilde.town ======

A shared Unix server (a "tilde community") where users get a home directory, SSH access, and a space on the small web.

===== Connect =====

<code bash>
ssh you@tilde.town
</code>

See [[terminal:tools:ssh_tilde|SSH: tilde.town]] for full config.

===== A Typical Home Directory =====

^ Path ^ Content ^
| ''~/public_html/'' | Web page at ''https://tilde.town/~you'' |
| ''~/public_gopher/'' | Gopher at ''gopher://tilde.town/1/~you'' |
| ''~/.ttbp/'' | Tilde Town Blog Project entries |
| ''~/.botany/'' | Virtual plant game data |
| ''~/.prosaic/'' | Poetry generation templates |
| ''~/.plan'' | Shown via ''finger you@tilde.town'' |
| ''~/.project'' | Current projects description |
| ''~/.pronouns'' | Preferred pronouns |

===== Tools =====

See [[tilde:tools|tilde.town Tools]] for TTBP, Botany, Prosaic, Bink, BBJ, IRC, Alpine.

===== Keeping a Local Mirror =====

<code bash>
rsync -avz tilde.town:~ ./town/      # pull home directory to local
rsync -avz ./town/ tilde.town:~      # push local changes up
</code>

Exclude ''.ssh'', mail spools, and ''.DS_Store'' from any mirror script.

===== Other Tildes =====

  * [[tilde:pink|tilde.pink]]: NetBSD tilde; Gemini, Gopher, neomutt, tilde.chat IRC
  * [[tilde:club|tilde.club]]: the server that started the 2014 wave
  * [[tilde:sdf|SDF]]: the Super Dimension Fortress; public-access Unix since 1987
  * [[tilde:cosmic|cosmic.voyage]]: pubnix built around a shared sci-fi story
  * [[tilde:envs|envs.net]]: minimalist Debian tilde with a long service list
  * [[tilde:green|tilde.green]]: 2022 tilde focused on creativity and wildness
  * [[tilde:rwrs|rw.rs]]: experimental open-source tilde, 199X aesthetic

===== The Tildeverse =====

  * [[tilde:tildeverse|The Tildeverse]]: the member network, shared IRC, shared services
  * [[tilde:history|Pubnix History]]: CTSS to BBSes to pubnixes to the 2014 revival
  * [[tilde:join|Joining a Tilde]]: pick a server, make an SSH key, stay safe
  * [[tilde:glossary|Glossary]]: plain-language definitions for tilde jargon

===== Account Reference =====

  * [[tilde:accounts|A Tilde Account]]: what an account includes and where hosts differ
  * [[tilde:commands|Commands]]: per-host launchers and connecting
  * [[tilde:apps|Tilde Apps]]: weechat, irssi, alpine, mutt, mail, micro, byobu
  * [[tilde:town_square|Town Square]]: town's world-writable communal directory
  * [[tilde:maintenance|Keeping a Tilde Account Active]]: daily and weekly routine
  * [[tilde:publishing|Publishing on a Pubnix]]: public_html, permissions, rsync deploys

===== See Also =====

  * [[tilde:tools|tilde.town Tools]]
  * [[tilde:tildeverse|The Tildeverse]]
  * [[tilde:sdf|SDF]]
  * [[protocols:gopher:start|Gopher]]
  * [[protocols:gemini:start|Gemini]]
  * [[terminal:shell:dotfiles|Dotfiles]]
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