Linux & Unix
192 sites
https://tilde.club/~pfhawkins/othertildes.html
Maintained by ~pfhawkins on tilde.club, this page is a curated directory of active tilde servers from across the tildeverse, complete with descriptions and signup links for each community. It serves as an essential jumping-off point for anyone interested in joining a public-access Unix shell community, with entries ranging from OpenBSD privacy-focused servers to the world's only Windows-based tilde.
https://rawtext.club/
rawtext.club is a small community shell server offering access to shell accounts, local email, and hosting for gemini, gopher, and HTML content, embracing a slow, deliberate approach to internet culture. Users can connect via local chat and participate in a community built around a shared social contract and a philosophy of minimalism and intentionality online.
https://tilde.town/
Tilde.town is a shared Linux server community of around 3000 users who collaborate to make art, socialize, and learn together, founded in 2014 by ~vilmibm. Visitors can explore user-made projects like interactive blackout art, mosaic tetris, and HTML graffiti, or apply to join this quirky digital neighborhood.
http://sdf.org/
SDF Public Access UNIX System, established in 1987, offers free shell accounts and a thriving community platform built around UNIX, the Fediverse, and vintage computing systems. Members gain access to shell environments, IRC, Gopher, Git, Mastodon, Minecraft, and an array of retro and modern services in one of the longest-running public access UNIX communities on the internet.
https://tilde.club/~ford
Paul Ford's home on tilde.club, the shared Unix server community he accidentally founded, featuring his web journal, letters to the mailing list, and reflections on the tildeverse movement. It chronicles the origin story of tilde.club and the philosophy behind collaborative multi-user Unix spaces as a throwback to early internet culture.
https://mhitza.github.io/
Known as 'personal code attic', this technical blog by mhitza covers Linux system administration, programming tutorials, and development environment setups with a focus on practical problem-solving. Visitors will find posts on topics like CentOS Stream migration, LVM snapshots, Ansible playbooks, and even Arduino assembly programming.
http://tilde.club/~barnold
Barnold's tilde.club personal page dives into technical topics like email spam analysis, git-remote-gcrypt for encrypted backups, mail handling with postfix and incron, and various Unix tools like xmobar and biff. A member of the Tildeverse community, barnold shares thoughtful, data-backed observations and practical shell scripting insights that will resonate with command-line enthusiasts.
https://tilde.club/~mnw
Marcus Wilson's personal tilde.club page offers a snapshot of his life as a self-described 'IT Janitor' with a passion for GNU/Linux, open source software, and electronic music. He hosts two radio shows, one covering overlooked news on Anonradio and one featuring Creative Commons electronic music on Tilderadio, making this a charming intersection of free software culture and indie internet radio.
https://tildeverse.org/members
The Tildeverse members directory catalogs the full collection of public-access Unix and tilde communities, listing each server's sysadmin, operating system, IRC channel, and founding date. It's a fascinating window into the modern tilde movement, where people share Unix shells to build web pages, write software, and collaborate in a retro internet spirit.
https://tilde.town/~haskal
Rose (haskal) maintains this minimalist tilde.town personal page packed with contact details across Mastodon, Matrix, XMPP, IRC, and more, with a strong emphasis on encrypted communications and open protocols. The site links to personal projects hosted at lain.faith, references PinePhone devices, and carries a cyberpunk aesthetic that signals a deeply technical, privacy-conscious corner of the indie web.