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The Circumlunar Universe is a confederation of independently

administered but tightly interconnected public-access unix servers,

offering a place for creative, social and technical undertakings on

a non-commercial basis to anybody who is interested in distributed

digital communities built on traditional text-based technologies.

Participants in these communities call themselves sundogs.

Want to know more? Read the Circumlunar Universe FAQ

The Circumlunar Universe consists of colonies and outposts:

Colonies

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Circumlunar colonies represent stable, long-term projects intended to

attract significant userbases. Colonies offer unix shell access, and

are a place to call $HOME. Users on one colony can interact with

users on any other colony by exchanging email, chatting via a common

IRC network, or posting messages on a bulletin board whose contents

are mirrored across all colonies. You are in some ways "closer" to

the users on your own colony, but for the most part you are joining

the same community no matter which colony you join. If it helps, you

can think of them like the pubnix equivalent of Mastodon instances.

Current colonies:

Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic

Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu

Outposts

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Circumlunar outposts are experimental projects run by individual

members of colonies. They offer fewer services than colonies, and

generally do not come with the same expectations of long term

availability, regular maintenance or transparent administration. An

outpost might literally be a RaspberryPi in somebody's basement. It

might disappear next month, or it might run smoothly for years.

Outposts are a way for colony members to practice system

administration, experiment with interesting ideas, and provide

additional services to their fellow sundogs. If you are a colony

member with an idea for an outpost, please contact solderpunk.

Current outposts:

The Red Consensus

Ryumin's Dome

Gemini server

* xmpp.circumlunar.space

Friends and allies

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The Circumlunar Universe is one facet of an expanding universe of

small public access unix servers (dubbed "micropubnixes" by Zaibatsu

sundog cmccabe) and networks. Admins of Circumlunar Colonies are

encouraged, but not required, to facilitate close relations with these

friends and allies, e.g. by allowing outgoing SSH connections to other

pubnix servers, accepting incoming finger connections from other

pubnix servers, permitting email exchange, etc.

Colorfield Space

Cosmic Voyage

Medialab

Raw Text Club

Typed Hole