sicklemode

We all need our creative outlets. It's good for our esteem to make stuff we like, that isn't primarily intended to serve someone else.

I've made a couple sites too that I have saved for time capsule purposes, and I genuinely enjoy viewing them once in a great while.

China is our only hope for climate action. The US will never do anything besides perpetuate everyone's blue balls. All hope from within the US is fake. There's no hope until the imperial core is destroyed beyond saving and replaced by People's Republics.

Of course. Again, I feel ashamed for not catching that the first time around, and apologize.

Terribly sorry, updated to include it.

It's a pretty interesting little game, no doubt.

There's also https://vede.itch.io/the-communist-dogifesto, which I adore for the replayability, the lore, as well as the System Shock-like experience.

https://colestia.itch.io/they-came-from-a-communist-planet

Perhaps they already are

https://fauux.neocities.org/ (CW: Epilepsy risk) (edited to the original)

Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet

I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.

https://neocities.org/browse

Hexbears should help expand our creativity on the web, by taking inspiration from NeoCities (successor to GeoCities). Not everything has to be sterile and bland and boring. I'd even like to be able to customize our profile pages more than just things like the banner and profile picture. I mean, just look at how much life can be breathed into a site with so much flexibility. Look at all the colors and non-standard layouts. What the web as lost is personality, which we should be taking back. We're on FOSS sites here in the Fediverse. We can do better, and we shouldn't be too afraid to take risks by deviating from what's accepted as "normal" these days.

We had way better tools for self-expression on older formats like early YouTube, MySpace, etc etc. We don't have to stay the course of sterile, standardized, corporatized web formats.

The original point of using the web was making things beautiful and tinkering around with different designs. It was to tell a story with the layout. That was part of the content itself, not just what we say and do online.

Edit: https://yesterweb.org/ (on NeoCities) has plenty of good and interesting information on this general topic of a worse present web (a manifesto, if you will)

Critical support to Microsoft for making Windows more and more uninhabitable and Linux increasingly sexier for all

Communism will win, even in cyberspace and software

Expect the US to ramp up protectionism efforts. China's technology is real good and getting better quite fast, but at the same time I'm skeptical of whether or not those of us living in the US will be able to actually benefit once it's clear that China has surpassed them in all respects technologically.

We could all be using Huawei cell towers and phones right now, enjoying end-to-end encrypted cellular correspondence and way fucking better internet speeds, but the US has done everything in its power to keep us frozen in time using dog shit legacy technology that's easy to man-in-the-middle, and also absurdly expensive due to lack of competing infrastructure and arrested national development.

I'd like to have all my electronics 100% sourced and manufactured, patented, etc etc all in and by China. But, like an abusive ex-partner whose mission is to prevent all attempts at your happiness and punish you for divorcing them, I expect the US to block access to such things at some point.

I would also like to know this, if anyone knows.

reform and closing down.