Hi,

Must Stop Lurking... I'm Walter, ~vandenb on Tilde, a novelist from The Netherlands (no translations into English yet), day job in content/tech. Got on Tilde because of Paul Ford, obviously, was always a big fan of ftrain.com, and still waiting for that book he's writing about the internet. 
Impressed by the big names entering my inbox. 

Op di 17 sep. 2019 om 09:20 schreef Dima Peteva <peteva.dima@gmail.com>:
Hi, hi!
Not sure if my previous message went anywhere, because I very unreasonably decided to send you all a picture of my new very old trailer van I just bought. But! I also forgot to introduce my tilde self: http://tilde.club/~dima/ I used it to make a record/tell a story about what I've been up to every month based solely on my Recently Used emoji on iMessage.

It's really nice to hear about all of you. That's all.

/D.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Robert Cantoni <robert.cantoni@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Tilde folks!

I’m Bob, on tilde at tilde.club/~cantoni/. I live in San Francisco and run a small digital product studio. We make apps and websites.

I’m really happy this thing came back to life. I’ve avoided the recent newsletter craze because my inbox feels overwhelming, but this thread doesn’t feel like that. It’s refreshing to see. I want more of the internet to be like this. (Also, now I’ve learned that Feedbin can solve my newsletter problem.)

Back in the 1990s, Paul’s blog was a place that made me feel less alone in the world, along with the Ben Folds Five mailing list and some other weird corners of the internet. I’m glad tilde’s back. The internet needs more weird, welcoming places.

—Bob