Even though I'm subscribed to a gazillion mailing lists, apparently I still hit the wrong button when responding to a list email ...

Anyway, forwarding this to the right place.

And sorry rdh for the duplicate.

-------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: "paco (e1e0)" erxeto@tilde.institute To: rdh@tilde.institute Subject: Re: Hey, who's still around?

rdh@tilde.institute writes:

Hey all,

Hey hey !

Who's still here in the big year 2026? I couldn't help but notice that we're a few versions behind on OpenBSD releases, and that the https cert has expired recently.

I know this is just a hobby project, and I want to make it clear that I expect no kind of SLA or anything, just checking in.

Just as the others that have answered, I'm "around" but barely active. Truth is I've never been active here or on ~team, where I have an account too. I rarely get into IRC and this list has always been super-duper-low-traffic.

Even though I find the community around tilde servers nice and welcoming, I can't help but feeling that the whole concept is a nice tool waiting for a problem to solve.

I mean, usually the online communities that get traction are the ones focused on a narrow or specific topic. This is quite the opposite, so you end up being "alone", but with a bunch of other people telling you "hey, cool stuff you did there !" ...

That's why, I think, initiatives like tilde radio and other more niche or specific are still sort of active. Anyway, just a thought.

In any case, maintaining a pubnix involves quite a bit of work and probably gbmor and the other admins don't have the time for it.

At this point I think we're 5 (soon 6) versions behind, which will require quite a bit of time to update, specially when we have custom software and configurations that will break for sure between updates. It would probably be better to just backup, and start from a fresh install. My point is, either you're on top of it, or the difficulty of maintaining the server stacks up with every release you "miss".

Me? Jeeze, I've had a heck of a few years. Got fired, got a great new job, lost that job due to... Uhh, real life stuff we don't need to get into, had some shit jobs and now I'm in probably the best job I've ever had. What about you?

That was quite a roller-coaster. Glad to read you landed softly.

About me, outside of work (which does not count as life), cycling as much as I can and picking up tech adjacent hobbies that allow me to still use technology but in a way that I don't hate it (again, because of work ...) in a more calm and relaxed manner.

Is the UNIX social network stil there? What neat stuff have you seen in this space lately?

Probably part of the slow demise (for lack of a bette word) is to compare this to a social network. Or what we currently understand as a social network. The interactions, barrier to entry and "engagement" are totally different. That's why (I think, maybe ...) make it go quiet after the novelty wears off. But what do I know. I never had any kind of social media account besides a brief time where I had a Mastodon account which I abandoned hehehehe.

Love and peace,

~rdh