Some notes from the tildeverse

[solderpunk]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:37:50PM -0400, Ben Harris wrote:
 
> First, I'd like to announce that I've set up user hosting on tilde.team with
> gemserv out of ~/public_gemini[0]. I'm looking forward to seeing more user
> content!

Hey Ben, wonderful to hear this!  The broad support for Gemini coming
out of the tilde/pubnix scene makes me really happy.

> - registration on tildegit is whitelisted to tilde email addresses (namely
> from tildeverse members and known pubnixes). feel free to contact me (email
> is fine, irc is preferred) if you don't have a tilde email address and I'd
> be happy to set up an account for you. Otherwise, you might consider signing
> up for a tilde account! :)

Aaah, is *that* what's happened?  I've heard a few people mention not
being able to register an account, but couldn't see why not with a quick
check.  Was it always like this (I guess I wouldn't have noticed, using
an @sdf.org address), or was this done in response to abuse problems?

I get that tildegit is intended to serve the tildeverse so in some ways
this restriction makes perfect sense.  It's kind of a shame, though, for
"outsiders" to not be able to open issues, make pull requests, etc. :(

Cheers,
Solderpunk