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Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

I know this #Discord nonsense has a lot of people searching for alternatives (like Matrix, Stoat, etc), and those alternatives have a chance to shine right now. BUT we need to go back to discussions and knowledge being searchable on the open web!

I say bring back the forums. It's time.

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scenesbycolleen
Another mini-castle tonight :blobcatheart:
4x8" oil painting, available now :comfyartist:
Painting: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4455060861
Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScenesbyColleen
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Added a pause menu.

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Reclaim The Net

Alabama Moves to Put a Gatekeeper on the App Store

reclaimthenet.org/alabama-move

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I've added coins that are dropped by the enemies upon death, even though they don't do anything. I thought about having shops in the levels and have the player buy power-ups like in Kid Icarus or Alex Kidd.

Let me know if you like the idea or not.

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Melonmancy Podcast

The Absolute State of Discord Alternatives in 2026

<p>[IMG]<a href="i.imgur.com/OvRpOql.jpeg[/IMG" rel="nofollow">i.imgur.com/OvRpOql.jpeg[/IMG</a>] [...]</p>

melonmancy.net/the-absolute-st

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Evil Love 『Vulonkaaz』
garf added to gikopoi dot com

(i made garf)
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Caek Islove 🍰 💖
Back during the 80's, they made a fully-automated Taco Bell. No human workers. Ingredients go in, finished food comes out. It was way faster and made no mistakes. So why aren't there automated Taco bells everywhere now? Because it cost 10x as much as just hiring some teenagers for minimum wage to make burritos.
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Gabriel

IMO the best way to replace #Discord is to fund a UI/UX renewal of #Mumble

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GrumpyRabbit
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2020888899816427860
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Want your alternative? You can have one using a few small scripts and a web server.

You will need:
1. Basic PHP (or any server-side scripting language), JS, and HTML knowledge (or you can just vibecode the thing, or find an existing script somewhere online)
2. A webserver with PHP (or any other server-side language) enabled

Steps:

1. Get a webserver with PHP enabled. There are even free webhosts with PHP like Heliohost.
2. Create 4 files: a blank text file (name it "messages.txt" or something like that), a JS file, and two PHP files
3. The first PHP should just be for the chatbox. You need a message field and a name field along with a message box to display all the messages. Decorate it in anyway you want.
4. The second PHP file just appends the new message plus the username of who sent it into the messages.txt (or whatever you named it) file like this: (<name>: <message>)
5. In the JavaScript file, have three functions. One is a function that retrieves the contents of messages.txt via AJAX. The second one will retrieve the form data and submit it to the second PHP file via an AJAX POST request. The third function is the body.onload method and it repeatedly calls the first function through a setInterval (make it something like every 3 seconds).
6. ???
7. Instant community.

If you are more knowledgeable, you can try adding accounts, or having it appear on the side of every page on your site.

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Q.U.I.N.N.
2,000 years of human history: children seeing all manner of blood death poverty and conscription

20 years of humans with computesr: :blobcatgooglyscream: only way to keep them safe is deeply invasive total monitoring of all individuals on the planet, guys

:senko_baka: why is everyone so stupid
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Clyde (GameTank Guy)

The Crowd Supply campaign for the GameTank is about 33% over and 31% funded.

I don't really know marketing. I'm just an engineer who made a fun thing and wants to share it with anyone in world who'd appreciate it.

My markup on the console in this campaign is negligible.

If you like what I'm doing:
- Backing is a huge help
- Backing with extra carts is a huge help
- Sharing this to other weirdos like me who spend time energy and money on retro dev is a huge help

crowdsupply.com/clydeware/game

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sj_zero
Sometimes, people point to the rainbow logo FBXL has and they wonder if it has something to do with contemporary identity politics.

Unequivocally, no.

Rainbows existed before contemporary politics, and they'll continue to exist afterwards.

Rainbows were a major aesthetic element of many early personal computers such as the TRS-80 CoCo and the Commodore 64, because unlike the earlier models like the original TRS-80 or Commodore Pet, they supported color out of the box. The Apple logo from that era is a rainbow apple icon. The Coco logo was separated rainbow lines.

Rainbows on black are also a major 70s/80s modernist design. Famous album covers use rainbow bars, as well as some contemporary TV shows which made use of animated rainbow lines.

When I designed the original FBXL.NET website back in 2006, I borrowed this rainbow on black aesthetic. It let me keep my preferred dark website aesthetic with a splash of color. That's also why the rainbow is somewhat desaturated -- it's intended to be a quiet graphical decoration, not to blow your eyeballs out while reading text on a black background.

Back in 2006, lgbt stuff existed, but wasn't as central as it is today. There was a war on terror that had been going on for 5 years, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan, and it looked like things were in an economic boom that was on its way to becoming the greatest recession since the great depression.
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@matthew @hfaust This is only going to affect NSFW "servers" (at least for now). I bet most of those who aren't there for porn will still stay on Discord for the time being.

Though, I do expect a few NSFW Matrix and XMPP servers popping up in the coming months/years.

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@Kagekokoro Doubt they'd make a distinction between federated and centralised. They'd see an instance like mastosoc say "that's social media, where's your age gate?" and expect them to play ball. Trying to get legislators or law enforcement to understand how fedi works is a fools errand. Pretty sure FSE pete still gets strongly worded letters from the FBI demanding he hand over the user information of somebody on a different instance at least once a month.

Exactly what playing ball looks like would depend on the wording of the legislation. Best case scenario, you just gotta age-check your own users, small and single-user instances largely unaffected. Worst case scenario, it completely kills federation, because you'd be expected to age-check every actor fetching your posts. No doubt m*stodon will bend the knee to the EU and implement some BS authorization measure that bricks the rest of the network.

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Lbabinz 🇨🇦
Xbox Edition 8BitDo 87 Keys Retro Mechanical Keyboard is $98.59 on Amazon https://urlgeni.us/amzn/VjmwYg #ad
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@beardalaxy @apropos Bryan Lunduke of all people proposed a solution involving physical cards that you buy at a gas station or some place like that. They would have a serial number that you can enter on a website to prove that you are a human or over 18 while still protecting your anonymity.

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Moved the main menu to a more logical position. Also added a "continue" option, even though it does nothing right now.

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Why hasn't anyone forked TCRF yet? The content on the site is CC licensed so Xkeeper has no power to prevent redistribution of the content over there. That was my favorite wiki and it's time for an alternative run by someone who doesn't rangeban IPs because the HTTP referrals were from a site they don't like.

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