The terminal commands for working each tilde account. For how to use the programs themselves, see Tilde Apps. Adapted from the tilde repo wiki.
| Host | Command | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| tilde.town | ssh you@tilde.town | |
| tilde.pink | ssh you@tilde.pink | |
| tilde.club | ssh you@tilde.club | |
| cosmic.voyage | ssh cosmic.voyage | with a Host entry in ~/.ssh/config |
| sdf.org | ssh sdf.org | your sdf login may differ from your usual handle |
| envs.net | ssh envs.net | mosh also supported |
| tilde.green | ssh tilde.green | mosh also supported |
| rw.rs | ssh rw.rs | |
| tilde.team | ssh you@tilde.team | shell access disabled since the Aug 2026 incident |
finger user@host works from any machine, no login needed.
tilde.town bundles its tools behind one launcher. town help or town menu lists everything; town aup shows the acceptable use policy.
Writing and community:
town feels: the ttbp diary client (town neofeels is the newer version)town bbj: the tildeverse forumtown mail: local mail (also plain mail)town bink: share a file, get a linktown bulletin, town linkulator: shared link boardstown planet: the town blog aggregatortown graffiti: edit the communal pagetown poem, town qotd, town nicethings: little daily textstown botany: tend your plantPeople and places:
town explore, town frnds, town findusr, town birthday: browse the town and its peopletown chat: opens weechat connected to the local IRC server (#tildetown)town pairing: share a terminal with another usertown stats: server stats as JSONtown motd, town welcome: login messagesUtilities:
town request-gemini: get served space in public_gemini/town request-gitea: get an account on git.tilde.towntown contrib: submit a program to the town launchertown indexme: generate an index.html for a directorytown rodo: a small todo listtown sdate: the Eternal September datetown my: run our/ user-scripts under your account
Games: town asciifarm, town battilde, town chess, town chin, town da, town dcss, town mines7, town mosaic-tetris, town potato, town tron, town tui48, plus toys: bunnysay, cats, drift, lavalamp, smudge, tilde-train, lain.
bb: bashblog. bb post to write, bb rebuild to regenerate, blog/.config for settingsalpine: mail client for the ~/.mail/ maildir (mutt and mail also installed)weechat, irssi, byobu: chat and sessionschfn, finger: finger fields and .plan filesweather <city>: local weather reportMinimal: publishing is just files in directories.
irssi, byobu: IRC and persistent sessionsfinger: serves .plan, .project, and public_gemini/.fingermail, mutt, alpine: mail clients.gmi files into public_gemini/public_gopher/index.gph
Note the NetBSD paths: packages are installed in /usr/pkg/bin (pkgsrc), so paths differ from the linux hosts.
man cosmic.voyage: the introduction manualmenu: interactive menuship: claim a ship, colony, or outpost; creates ~/ships/<name>/log: publish a .txt message to the QEC relay (web, gopher, gemini at once); wrap at 80 columnsroster: every ship and its authorlatest: recent relay transmissionswiki, faq: documentation in lynxchat, bbj, botany: tildeverse toyspasswd: change the signup password (used for IMAP/POP3/SMTP, not ssh)mkhomepg: set up ~/html (web space at bren.sdf.org)mkgopher: set up ~/gopherphlog: post to your gopher phlog (phlog = gopher blog)bboard: SDF's bulletin boardcom: the classic SDF chatmaint: account maintenance menuvalidate: upgrade membership level (ARPA)alpine, pine, mutt: mail; irc, irssi, weechat: chat; micro, nano: editors
Publishing means editing files directly: ~/html is served at bren.sdf.org, ~/gopher goes out over the gopher server.
mutt: mail (IMAP at mail.envs.net; alpine also installed)weechat, irssi, byobu, bbj, fingermosh you@envs.net: survives dropped connectionsweechat, irssi, byobu, mutt, alpine, fingermosh you@tilde.green
Minimal: weechat, irssi, nano, vim, rsync. No launcher scripts, no micro, mutt, byobu, or finger.