>0 omorrigan @ 2024/08/11 00:19
tildes give to the user possibilities that we do not see into modern systems, so why people do not know it?
>1 singletona082 @ 2024/08/11 01:58
>>OP Personal theory? Lack of sex appeal. There isn't that instant dopamine rush from pretty pictures and beep boop THINGS going on. Plus it requires (admittedly very little) knowledge. I mean even a mook like me can get going here, so it's not really all that hard. However it isn't instant 'press button to show how right you are to ALL the people.' That, I feel, is a critical thing beyond knowledge barrier or lack of visual aesthetics. There isn't that critical mass of users, nor is there a lot of mainstream buzz for a lot of folk to WANT to go to the trouble. Personally I see tildes being small as being inherently a good thing. There's a few hundred to a few thousand users. Probably a fair bit more, but we're a community where you can get to know folk, and find a comfortable place in rather than be just another voice screaming for attention. Personally I'm grateful politics and relegion are seen as no fly zones as topics. It's arguments all the way down and so, not worth allowing here.
>2 omorrigan @ 2024/08/11 02:22
>>1 got the point, but it is kinda better and detoxing computing without that excessive trash stealing our attention; in one tilde that i have account i can send emails to all internet by a text interface using alpine or or mutt, and this is detoxing of all that craziness.
>3 dskully @ 2024/08/18 17:46
im glad that it isnt, actually. It would become full of bots and people trying to profit from it just like the main web.
>4 anonymous @ 2024/08/19 04:47
>>3 Same thing could be said for Gemini protocol or Fediverse. one day a comporation will come and try to monetize/destroy this platforms. well Threads is doing it right now to the Fediverse :/
>5 omorrigan @ 2024/08/19 19:39
>>4 The Instagram Threads is exploring the fediverse RN.I can tell that it can have a good face but a bad one
>6 omorrigan @ 2024/08/19 19:41
>>3 i did not thinked by this viewpoint, and it is quite valid
>7 betoissues @ 2024/08/25 09:45
>>OP one of the many reasons that come to my mind is, because people doesn't read. without media and iconography, the adoption for many is just complex, nowadays could be identified as a hassle to have a text only interface.
>8 anonymous @ 2024/08/26 00:33
>>7 Tildes are nerdy niche. They are still popular, amongst the nerdy crow (us).
>9 omorrigan @ 2024/08/26 02:44
>>8 long live to us nerds
>10 omorrigan @ 2024/08/26 02:51
>>7 you'll surely agree that the poluted web of today with that noisy HTML, and all those garbage is dumping the minds with a lot of nosensical information about how to be more slim, more beautiful, more rich, more this or that, creating a generation that is mindless and deprived of the best things of life, like going into a plaza and look the birds while listen the city symphony. and i mean that is the reason for technologies, to do for us what we do not need anymore to do beccause machines are better way capable. --
>11 dskully @ 2024/08/31 13:33
>>10 I agree. Coming here is like breathing fresh air after all the noise and pollution of the web.
>12 ant @ 2024/09/10 22:29
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>13 say @ 2024/09/18 23:28
I honestly think it's a few things other than just low discoverability. One thing is I think we're kind of becoming a post-literate society in some ways. And CLI, programming, text-oriented stuff, HTML, etc etc are all "literature" style arts/techs instead of "video style" which is dominant. I also think there are two kinds of ppl in life, but especially in computer use: people who want to solve their own problems, and people who don't. And group two will be forever barred from using stuff like UNIX CLI because their brain turns off at the first barrier It's like telling someone they have to learn to cook.. if they don't want to they never will
>14 omorrigan @ 2024/09/19 03:35
>>13 Yes i will need to agree with you about that, UNIX is mind-oriented and is for those whom do not scare of challenges
>15 bbsing @ 2024/11/23 05:08
I think the explosing of computing is actaully phone use. The smart phone has had a specific interface that was more web/internet friendly, and to this day there are not good interfaces for computing with text based systems via smart phone. If there was a good interface via smart phones I would probably use my smart phone for my interactions with the tilde. From smart phones as a users gateway to computing primary user interface for users, what feels normal is some form of graphical interface. Even school children don't start out without GUI type interfaces. Something like a ssh session via a console or tty is like the hackers depicted in movies or something like that. The keyboard on smart phones is complicated compared to a physical keyboard from an operators perspective. Not to mention the KB takes up screen space as well, which leaves little room for listing console output that doesn't have a scroll back feature. I think the issue is interface. For me I love text based systems, and I'm so used to them, I perfer tty/vty. At my work when I'm on a meeting and I share my screen, people that have worked in my field a long time make comments like they are watching the matrix. What they are seeing is a terminal window with tmux, or tmux + vim. These are DEVS that never used telnet, or ssh, or operated windows via CMD.exe or shells. They are smart people and good at what they do but the terminal is too much.
>16 Cartwright @ 2024/12/03 19:39
I had look for the tildes about 2years before a found them, it seemed that google hid them.
>17 etc404 @ 2024/12/06 00:43
Frankly I just hadn't heard of them until about a year ago, and even then I only saw one mentioned in a project on github. I'm not really sure where people generally hear about them, but I certainly don't see much buzz about their existance on social media. Maybe I'm just not in the right circles for that? Most people I know IRL don't even know about IRC :/