Welcome to ~vern!

~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.

Announcements

A list of announcements can be found at /announcements

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:16:43 +0000 - ATTENTION VERN USERS

As you may know, the United States of America is having a presidential election. The outcome of this election will not only determine the safety of many people, but also ~vern's continued existence. If Donald Trump wins this election, ~vern will have to shut down, potentially for good. There is a chance I (cobra) can get it running somewhere else, but it is not likely. Back up all your data, and purge any that may tie you to your identity if you live in the US. This isn't a guaranteed situation, but it is more likely than I would like. I will be announcing the exact shutdown date and time if it happens, but it might not be very much notice. Thank you all for your continued support.

Community

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

Services

You can get access to the services with an asterisk (*) next to their name 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. (For I2P, if a service doesn't have an address helper, its address is the default vern.i2p).

Services marked with "AD:" have alternate (sub)domains you can use for them.

Core:
Storage:
Network:
Games:
Social:
Front-Ends:
E-Mail:
Other:

What computers do ~vern servers run on?

~vern has many servers running in different ways. You can find a list of them and their uses at /sysinfo.