Looks like the link is rickrolling when you come in via HN referrer if anyone's confused. Also might explain the downvotes on the parent comment if you know the URL to be legit.
Copy paste the link to save a minor annoyance. It's a bit persistent as they used a 301 permo redirect, open incognito if you've already clicked it.
Your link might get popular on HN, and inevitably someone will comment "well that's stupid", and you will read it and feel bad. Not reading HN comments is apparently not an option.
Well there can also be quite a lot of bigotry and hate around here, don't blame people wanting to block traffic from here, especially when your trying to create something sweet and pure like this.
I'm pretty sure JWZ is the OG for redirecting HN referrers, and whatever else you care to say about the man, if you tell me he does this so's not to get his fee-fees hurt, I will laugh in your face.
When I last explored the tildeverse it was rife with easily triggered precious snowflakes actively searching for reasons to be offended. It wouldn't surprise me if the fee-fees protection comment had at least a grain of truth to it...
It may be simply that HN commenters, taken in the large, far less frequently have anything nearly so novel or worthwhile to say as the mean participant here believes himself able to contribute. This alone strikes me as sufficient reason both for referrer redirects as a mild but not ineffective deterrent, and also for the general - and generally low - opinion of this site which is held in many other quarters.
Prior experience strongly suggests your next move, or someone's, will be to ask why I stay here myself, if I have such a low opinion of the place. The question is pointless, and has two answers. One is for the opportunity to indulge my own love for needless pettifogging and disputation, a flaw in my character I have never managed fully to extirpate. The other is that once in a blue moon, at a rate slightly in excess of that I've seen most other places, someone here does actually say something worth taking seriously. Perhaps this thread will surprise me in that regard.
I spent more time trying to find why there was a rickroll than I did on the site itself. Honestly it worked perfectly on me.
Snipe the nerds before they can interact with your community.
In all serious though I do get it, I'd definitely avoid injecting Reddit and HN into a small community. You're just asking to overload the culture and Eternal September yourself doing that.
He does it so as not to get his fee-fees hurt. Superficial brashnees is not incompatible with underlying vulnerability (quite the opposite if anything).
I don't know how many people you've known who ran successful bars. I've known several. It is not a profession that is kind to the weak, and Zawinski's thrived in it for what must by now be at least twenty years.
I don't particularly care for the man; mostly I think he's kind of an asshole whose political opinions ossified some time around the year I was born, and whose ability to appreciate the world as is seems entirely circumscribed thereby. I do nonetheless recognize that he is worthy of my respect. Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much.
10 days ago someone did a Show HN for an old-school forum.
If you go through the comments you'll see the author had to switch to manually approving new accounts almost immediately because people from here started posting racial slurs.
So, yeah, I can absolutely see why some people might wanna do things like this.
Yes absolutely - HN is consistently one of the places that hates on specific libraries and technologies far more than the wider internet. If you speak in favour of them you get comments questioning your experience and skills. It's horrible.
SDF, arguably the largest pubnix provider, runs NetBSD, which is a Unix. They also offer Linux, TOPS-20, Plan 9, and other Unix derivatives, but their core systems are all Unix.
Thanks for the link. I now understand the tildeverse really well. I love the way it explains it so easily and didn't take much reading or time to understand.
Hmmmph. I love UNIX but to me symbols are supposed to feel invisible, not be obsessed over. These are like parentheses in LISP. LISP users start seeing trees rather than parenthesis.
It's mainly a place for a curious cross-section of the technical and arts community. Very nice place IMO.
They offer public access Unix, chats, hosting and various other services.
Very different from other pubnixes like SDF, because at tilde the public systems are really a basis for a community, whereas users on other pubnixes tend to just do their own thing.
Can someone clarify where the links are sourced from?
My very limited understanding is that the tildeverse is a network of public *nix servers where people have accounts. It seems like people host tiny home pages and those are publicly accessible.
Do these people submit links to the aggregator? Is it like Hacker News, just with a different audience?
This looks like a deployment of the code behind lobste.rs.
I can understand that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is a little blatant, they didn't even "tilderize" their user profiles to give it a local spin.
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Copy paste the link to save a minor annoyance. It's a bit persistent as they used a 301 permo redirect, open incognito if you've already clicked it.
When I last explored the tildeverse it was rife with easily triggered precious snowflakes actively searching for reasons to be offended. It wouldn't surprise me if the fee-fees protection comment had at least a grain of truth to it...
Prior experience strongly suggests your next move, or someone's, will be to ask why I stay here myself, if I have such a low opinion of the place. The question is pointless, and has two answers. One is for the opportunity to indulge my own love for needless pettifogging and disputation, a flaw in my character I have never managed fully to extirpate. The other is that once in a blue moon, at a rate slightly in excess of that I've seen most other places, someone here does actually say something worth taking seriously. Perhaps this thread will surprise me in that regard.
I spent more time trying to find why there was a rickroll than I did on the site itself. Honestly it worked perfectly on me.
Snipe the nerds before they can interact with your community.
In all serious though I do get it, I'd definitely avoid injecting Reddit and HN into a small community. You're just asking to overload the culture and Eternal September yourself doing that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I don't know how many people you've known who ran successful bars. I've known several. It is not a profession that is kind to the weak, and Zawinski's thrived in it for what must by now be at least twenty years.
I don't particularly care for the man; mostly I think he's kind of an asshole whose political opinions ossified some time around the year I was born, and whose ability to appreciate the world as is seems entirely circumscribed thereby. I do nonetheless recognize that he is worthy of my respect. Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much.
So you know him personally? Talked about this? Have some background in personali...
"He runs a bar!"
Seems legit.
"Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much."
Indeed.
If you go through the comments you'll see the author had to switch to manually approving new accounts almost immediately because people from here started posting racial slurs.
So, yeah, I can absolutely see why some people might wanna do things like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34829076
https://img.imgy.org/1QVk.jpg
Public Access Unix Systems are shared computers that people share and log on to.
They offer public access Unix, chats, hosting and various other services.
Very different from other pubnixes like SDF, because at tilde the public systems are really a basis for a community, whereas users on other pubnixes tend to just do their own thing.
(warning may be political)
https://tilde.news/rss
(activity itself is very light so a feed helps)
My very limited understanding is that the tildeverse is a network of public *nix servers where people have accounts. It seems like people host tiny home pages and those are publicly accessible.
Do these people submit links to the aggregator? Is it like Hacker News, just with a different audience?
I can understand that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is a little blatant, they didn't even "tilderize" their user profiles to give it a local spin.
[1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki#sister-sites
At least I can claim that https://littr.me is part of the tildeverse because it uses ~username as a way to reach its users' profiles.