~vern is a non-commercial tilde focused on free software and services! This means we are a community open for sharing, engaging, participating and creating free (as in freedom) software for everyone, without exceptions.
While we host a lot of services like privacy front-ends, ~vern is well known for its cozy and participative community, that has been built that way since the beginning. We are here not to just get software to your hands, but to walk you through it.
~vern also has a pubnix, that is, a public machine that runs NixOS on top of the Linux-Libre kernel for improved freedom. The nonfree repositories are not enabled by default, too.
Finally, ~vern's purpose is to provide to you the best experience you could have in this hopeless Internet, and to get you to get stuff done as soon as you can!
All our servers run free GNU/Linux distributions. See our roadmap for ~vern.
A list of announcements can be found at /announcements
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:14:50 +0000 - Attention ~vern users
There is a new pubnix account recovery system, using PGP. We strongly suggest you put a PGP key in ~/.pgp.asc to use it in the future.
You can join our community on most major free software chat programs:
We make use of bridging so you can chat with us regardless of what chat program you use
- Main Chat - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Off-topic Chat - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Announcements - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Game Chat - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Abuse Reports - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Fridge (Chat screenshots) - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Radio Chat - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Chaos (Things that don't belong in off-topic) - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
- Uptime Monitoring - Matrix, XMPP, IRC
You can get access to the "Reg Needed" services by signing up via the registration form.
With the exception of clearnet Minetest & services hosted on Iceberg and Typhoon, none of the services we host have the capability to log IP addresses due to our use of WireGuard. IP logging on Iceberg is disabled.
We also host Tor and I2P versions of most of these services.
Services marked with "AD:" have alternate (sub)domains you can use for them.
- ~vern - The main ~vern website
- ~vern Gemini - The ~vern Gemini capsule
- ~vern gopher - The ~vern gopherhole
- ~vern Radio - ~vern's internet radio, featuring only libre music
- SSH (Reg Needed) - Users can log in to the ~vern pubnix using SSH
- User sites (Reg Needed) - Each user can have their own site (HTTP, Gemini, Gopher) on username.vern.cc
- User sockets (Reg Needed) - Each user has a UNIX socket and can run their own HTTP server from it, accessible via *-username.vern.cc
- Among sus - A recreation of Among Us mechanics but as a multiplayer text adventure game
- Minetest (Creative) - Sandbox video game and game creation system with focus on voxel graphics
- Minetest (Mineclone5 Survival) - Sandbox video game and game creation system with focus on voxel graphics
- SuperTuxKart - Free/libre and open-source kart racing game
- Teeworlds - A retro multiplayer shooter
- DDNet - Teeworlds modification with a unique cooperative gameplay
- Xonotic - The free and fast arena shooter
- AnonymousOverflow (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for StackOverflow
- Beatbump (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for YouTube Music
- BiblioReads (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Goodreads
- Binternet (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Pintrest
- BreezeWiki (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Fandom
- Destructables (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Instructables
- Dumb (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Genius
- hckrnws (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Hacker News
- Hyperpipe (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for YouTube Music
- Invidious (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for YouTube
- Laboratory (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for GitLab and GitLabCE
- LibMedium (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for Medium
- Librarian (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for LBRY/Odysee
- Libreddit (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Reddit. Username vern, password libreddit.
- LibremDB (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for IMDb
- LibreY (AD: A) - A meta search engine for Google and popular torrent sites
- Neuters (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Reuters
- Nitter (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Twitter
- Piped (AD: A) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design
- Proxigram (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Instagram
- ProxiTok (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for TikTok
- Quetre (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Quora
- Rimgo (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Imgur
- RSS-Bridge (AD: A) - The RSS feed for websites missing it
- Rural Dictionary (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Urban Dictionary
- SafeTwitch (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Twitch
- Scribe (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Medium
- SearXNG (AD: A/B) - A metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services
- SimpleAmazon (AD: A) - A Simple Web Interface for Amazon
- SimpleerTube (AD: A) - A Simple Web Interface for PeerTube
- SimplyTranslate (AD: A/B) - Minimal and private translations w/ many engines
- Suds (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Snopes.com
- Teddit (AD: A) - Another alternative front-end for Reddit
- Tent (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Bandcamp
- Whoogle (AD: A) - An alternative front-end for Google Search
- Wikiless (AD: A/B) - An alternative front-end for Wikipedia
- LibreTranslate - Free Machine Translation API
- PGP Suite - A simple and easy-to-use client-side PGP tool
- v.Nu (AD: A) - Helps you catch unintended mistakes in your HTML, CSS, and SVG
What computers do ~vern servers run on?
#sysinfo
~vern has many servers running in different ways. You can find a list of them and their uses at /sysinfo.