~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 Guix System for improved freedom.
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
Tue, 13 May 2025 06:13:13 +0000 - 0x0 Tor and I2P removed
Someone uploaded CSAM and Hetzner never actually contacted me before locking the IP, so ~vern was down for a while. This is why we can't have nice things.
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
You can get access to more 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 firewall rules. IP logging on Iceberg is disabled.
We also host Tor and I2P versions of most of these services.