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