@troubleMoney idk if it'll be a lot of spare tbh i have not even a single clue what tilde.town is/how it works

@squirrel tilde.town is basically a linux server that has open-ish sign-ups for accounts

you can ssh in and then do linux stuff, and there's an irc and a forum and you can use wall to bug everyone

also provides a little bit of web and gopher hosting

@troubleMoney that sounds extremely fun and like something i won't enjoy at all because it sounds like the kind of thing that has a very tight-knit community that's impenetrable

@squirrel it is one of those communities that looks like that from the outside

I was thinking it's pretty easy to set up something similar if you didn't mind people bumbling around on a little section of the server though

@troubleMoney open ssh is a very bad idea if you like your server to not die in the first day unless you have a very specific system with access rules in place

@troubleMoney access level privileges are very much not easy to set up at all

@squirrel tilde.town uses ssh keypairs so there's not as much of a risk there

user accounts would definitely have to be locked down pretty tight though

@troubleMoney no that's what i mean yeah

setting up your server to be like that

it's not easy

@squirrel hm... the more I think about this the less it sounds like a viable idea for "resources left over on a server what actually does stuff"

the BBS thing could well work though

@troubleMoney i super would love to run a bbs but from prior experience it's hard to get people to use it for more than one day and it's very hard to maintain and administer and i do not want to do it again

computer fairies used to be a bbs in 2013-2014 already and was even in the synchronet vertrauen list of bbses

@troubleMoney administrate* not administer

@squirrel both of those words actually work

and yeah, fair point

@squirrel or the extra patreon funds can go on maple snacks

that would also be a good use for it