The Circumlunar Universe is a confederation of independently | |
administered but tightly interconnected public-access unix servers, | |
offering a place for creative, social and technical undertakings on | |
a non-commercial basis to anybody who is interested in distributed | |
digital communities built on traditional text-based technologies. | |
Participants in these communities call themselves sundogs. | |
Want to know more? Read the Circumlunar Universe FAQ | |
The Circumlunar Universe consists of colonies and outposts: | |
Colonies | |
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Circumlunar colonies represent stable, long-term projects intended to | |
attract significant userbases. Colonies offer unix shell access, and | |
are a place to call $HOME. Users on one colony can interact with | |
users on any other colony by exchanging email, chatting via a common | |
IRC network, or posting messages on a bulletin board whose contents | |
are mirrored across all colonies. You are in some ways "closer" to | |
the users on your own colony, but for the most part you are joining | |
the same community no matter which colony you join. If it helps, you | |
can think of them like the pubnix equivalent of Mastodon instances. | |
Current colonies: | |
Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency | |
Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic | |
Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu | |
Outposts | |
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Circumlunar outposts are experimental projects run by individual | |
members of colonies. They offer fewer services than colonies, and | |
generally do not come with the same expectations of long term | |
availability, regular maintenance or transparent administration. An | |
outpost might literally be a RaspberryPi in somebody's basement. It | |
might disappear next month, or it might run smoothly for years. | |
Outposts are a way for colony members to practice system | |
administration, experiment with interesting ideas, and provide | |
additional services to their fellow sundogs. If you are a colony | |
member with an idea for an outpost, please contact solderpunk. | |
Current outposts: | |
The Red Consensus | |
Ryumin's Dome | |
Gemini server | |
* xmpp.circumlunar.space | |
Friends and allies | |
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The Circumlunar Universe is one facet of an expanding universe of | |
small public access unix servers (dubbed "micropubnixes" by Zaibatsu | |
sundog cmccabe) and networks. Admins of Circumlunar Colonies are | |
encouraged, but not required, to facilitate close relations with these | |
friends and allies, e.g. by allowing outgoing SSH connections to other | |
pubnix servers, accepting incoming finger connections from other | |
pubnix servers, permitting email exchange, etc. | |
Colorfield Space | |
Cosmic Voyage | |
Medialab | |
Raw Text Club | |
Typed Hole |