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Midnight Pub

Searching for a new place

~winter

I had a capsule over at rawtext.club. Something happened? I don't know what. But it was down for days, and is now back with a message about rebuilding. Hmm.

I've learned from previous total data loss incidents, and I'm fine. I might've lost a gemlog entry or two, but I should be okay, I've been backing things up very regularly. Everything's saved to a private git repo, but I'm wondering where to go from here. The easiest approach would be to find another tilde. Or maybe I go the self-hosting route, get a new memory card, put Raspbian on it, get my Pi working again, etc etc? I don't know. But I felt like I wanted to write about this outside of my usual social media haunts, the ones attached to my real name. So I'm writing about it here.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

tilde.club

has been solid for me for gemini, http, and gopher.

~zampano wrote (thread):

Welcome aboard! My experience here has been consistently positive.

I’ve been half-heartedly looking for a new tilde for awhile (had a bad experience on one of the bigger ones, and most others share e.g. an IRC server). I contacted a Spanish-language tilde (texto-plano.xyz) awhile back but never heard anything, and their site now says they haven’t been accepting new members since at least February 2024. I’m most tempted by SDF since it seems like the biggest “independent” setup, but am not 100% sure what I would actually *do* there. I barely have the time and/or inclination to keep up my presence here and on a couple discord servers.

None of this is directly relevant to you, of course. I will say that self-hosting can be fun if you find the right apps, but it does leave one in isolation for the most part. All the more so now that search engines are becoming increasingly worthless.