The .org link seems to be a rick-roll.

Many sites, including that .org link, have redirects for users coming from HN (because HN has a lot of trolls, though you may not see them unless you have showdead enabled)

I turn off referers in my browser. There is no reason to have it on, especially cross-origin. It's only good for tracking and not much else.

Didn't it get used for some login flows?

Yeah. You can re-enable them when needed, such as with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/togglereferre...

That's hilarious. No wonder /g/ ridicules the Tildeverse whenever it's brought up.

What is shodead? Cannot find any relevant info on them.

showdead is a setting on your HN profile

It takes 3 seconds to check and prove that you are wrong about this case.

I took the 3 seconds to check and they were right.

  jfred@lambdacrypt ~$ curl -IL https://tildeverse.org
  HTTP/2 200
  server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
  date: Sat, 14 May 2022 14:05:51 GMT
  content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  vary: Accept-Encoding
  strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
  
  jfred@lambdacrypt ~$ curl -IL https://tildeverse.org -H "Referer: https://news.ycombinator.com"
  HTTP/2 301
  server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
  date: Sat, 14 May 2022 14:06:18 GMT
  content-type: text/html
  content-length: 178
  location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
  strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000

It takes a similar amount of time to prove that he is correct.

If you copy the link into a new window instead of coming from HN, you get a different result.

This is crazy. What an absolute gem to discover all this.