xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@beardalaxy Yeah all the other futuristic racers pale in comparison to F-Zero. I'm surprise nobody has made a proper spiritual successor. FAST seems like the closest but I heard that the game isn't as fast and that most of the courses have guard rails.

@mr64bit Can you blame them? Nintendo can't find anything to do with F-Zero anymore.

I just discovered that some indie is making a spiritual successor to F-Zero and it's pretty cool.

https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=ddP89NchBSg

@wrongthink @PhenomX6 @alex @gnusocialjp @mint @ryo I was tempted to use it multiple times. It was much more simpler and laid back than Facebook being focused on microblogging and nothing more and allowing pseudonyms unlike Facebook. I'm glad I didn't though.

@pasture LMAO! Apple recently fucked up gaming even more.

@mint @PhenomX6 @alex @gnusocialjp @ryo I'd also say that the culture is a lot more laid-back and open minded compared to mainstream social media and even other niche forms of communication like imageboards. It really feels like 90s and 2000s internet.

@PhenomX6 @alex @gnusocialjp @ryo Well, there are certain situations where building a "brand" makes sense like if you are an indie/hobbyist game developer, streamer, commissions artist, etc but still don't want to deal with the bullshit of mainstream social media. The people here who reuse their names or even use their real names only do it because of that. It's basically the same exception when it comes to using tripcodes on anonymous imageboards.

@PhenomX6 @alex @gnusocialjp @ryo
Also, from the other side, Big Tech censorship of right wingers has lead many on the dissident right to embrace FOSS (namely decentralized and anonymity networks). Which only increased the tension and lead to some projects leaning more towards the left just so they wouldn't be associated with "internet nazis".

The most famous example would probably be the Tor project. There is an alt-right news blog known as The Daily Stormer which was deplatformed by Cloudflare and basically every domain registrar under the sun after the Charlottesville protests in 2017. They ended up making a Tor hidden service for the time being. So in response, the Tor Project made a public announcement condemning the existence of the site in response. Someone even made a pull request that would allow Tor nodes to filter such sites but it was rejected.

And of course there was Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as PhenomX6 has already mentioned. FOSS communities loved it because it finally allows them to be funded without all the middlemen. Even the mainstream media spoke positively of it, but the dissident right embraced it once payment processors and even credit/debit card companies started to deplatform them. Soon, there were concerns about it being used to fund right wing terrorism and assassinations. Now, crypto (especially anonymous coins like Monero) is associated with "internet nazis", drug/weapon dealers, anarcho-capitalists, and pedophiles. A lot of projects will rather forego monetary donations all together as a result.

There are probably numerous other examples. This, along with the left throwing Stallman under the bus in 2019 has lead many far-left in the FOSS community to leave the community entirely and start the "ethical software" and "anti-capitalist" software movements. The "ethical software" movement embraces licenses that restrict Freedom 0 (preventing the software for being used for "hate speech" among other things) and the "anti-capitalist" software movement restricts commercial use (even if it's just merely using the software and not redistributing/forking it) outside of worker-coops, which is something that the "ethical software" movement restricts as well.

@beardalaxy It isn't a problem if you know how to spoof user-agents.