tilde.town is pretty comfy, huh?
i always knew i liked the idea of shared computers, but like, it really is something else to actually be on one!
it's basically linux, except as a social network!
local irc, a text based bulletin board, a link aggregator, and a whole bunch of other neat little things where you can see the effects others had on the world
sometimes having things in a text interface is cute enough that the novelty makes me actually even like things like localhost-constrained mail
it certainly helps that most of the others i've seen on there seem to be some mix tech, and soft
and a lot of the things on there are cute!
there's a
botanyprogram that lets you take care of an ascii plant and watch it grow. there's also a mud where you create rooms that don't exist yet, and explore the ones that do. there's even a big ol text canvas that anyone can write/ascii draw on!