tilde.club

tilde.club: the server that started the modern tilde wave in October 2014, when Paul Ford offered shell accounts to anyone who asked. Runs Fedora; a plain, standard unix box.

ssh you@tilde.club

See Pubnix History for the founding story and The Tildeverse for the network that followed it.

• ~/public_html/: served at tilde.club/~you/
• ~/public_gopher/: gopherhole; a blog subdirectory can serve bashblog posts over gopher
• ~/public_gemini/: minimal gemini serving

• bb (bashblog): a single-script blog engine. bb post to write, bb rebuild to regenerate, blog/.config for settings. Produces static HTML plus feed.rss, and .backup.tar.gz/.yesterday.tar.gz revert files
• alpine, mutt, mail: mail clients; the mailbox is a maildir at ~/.mail/, with server-side sieve filters and .forward support
• weechat, irssi: IRC clients
• byobu: persistent sessions so IRC survives logout
• chfn, finger: finger fields and .plan/.project/.pronouns
• Editors: micro, nano, vim, emacs
• TOTP two-factor login is supported via ~/.google_authenticator

• Three shells come configured by default on a typical account: bash, zsh, and mksh
• Fedora's dnf package cache can land in ~/.cache and grow large
• ~/.keychain/ provides ssh-agent persistence

• tilde.town
• The Tildeverse
• Pubnix History
• Joining a Tilde
• Commands
• Glossary
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