Just got on to ~.team, and then realized I had signed up for .club too but used my sdf email in the form and forgot about it! I guess I need to get cracking on organizing myself, but I love the pubnix idea, and enjoy the heck out of what people have put together for the enjoyment of others. This is how the Internet should have been. Thanks to all of you who do that.

Just got on to ~.team, and then realized I had signed up for .club too but used my sdf email in the form and forgot about it! I guess I need to get cracking on organizing myself, but I love the pubnix idea, and enjoy the heck out of what people have put together for the enjoyment of others. This is how the Internet should have been. Thanks to all of you who do that.

I have had various linux-based "homelab" servers running continually for the past couple decades, and a steady stream of cheap or free VPSs for experimenting with, but the pubnix idea is new-ish too me. I had a shell account with my university as an undergraduate, and used PINE on that for many years (this wasn't that all long ago, 20-ish years, everyone else was using the webmail). I love the nostalgia of it, but I also think barebones computing services are a really nice way to step back from the flashy, over-consuming/over-marketed web as it has become. I enjoy simple, text-based websites and communicating by email or IRC. I do a lot of my work in a text editor, and enjoy keeping old technology working.

I don't know that I'll have much to contribute to these pubnixes except to be a user poking around, perhapse engaging in IRC, at least for now. Maybe I'll get an idea to contribute something. Who knows? For now, I think I'll move my groups.io subscriptions for some ham radio lists away from gmail so I can get some activity in my PINE client and noncommercial email account.