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  • Open source (nor foss) doesn’t really assure protection from the capital and/or consumerism…

    On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects

    yep, hence why imo is better to not be fully open from day 0. The free software movement reached his peak, now it’s time to evolve into something better. A software made by squeezing the open libraries and then the devs and then the consumers to then have most of the earnings kept in the company bank to get numbers going up for the capital is totally doable even while having the most free license.

    As you say tho, it can help with accessibility and longevity.

    I just would like to not see ‘‘solarpunk99’’ in some years made in the worst possible way. I’d rather have toxic games but made in a solarpunk way than ‘‘solarpunk’’ games made by the capital to sell us another commodified idea



  • I think we should write more about solarpunk itself so I’m glad for your post, thank you

    Said that, I would have added at least one disclaimer about solarpunk games intended as games produced in a more solarpunk way: stuff like no DRM, avoiding dark patterns, being a cooperative or being owned by a foundation and much more.

    Let me underline the “just a disclaimer”, I know you wanted to focus on the content and what I said would need basically another full post

    Again, love your initiative and I hope more people will follow you 🙏


  • Try to be informed about the stuff you can have an impact on

    For example on my rss feed I just wiped out most of the non EU stuff. It’s ok to know that there are wildfires somewhere in the world but being overexposed is really just toxic

    I can organize here in Italy, not even the whole of it but my region and the cities I spend time in. It’s much better to know what my little city council is discussing about rather than any even major event but so far from me.

    Unluckily, social media doesn’t help too much with curating the feeds but as others said try to work more on mutes and filters. Don’t forget that getting informed is just one tool for change, do not get too high on it :)

    Edit and P.S. : it’s also much easier that on social networks driven by engagement algorithms the posts that travel the most are the ones that cause hate/rage and sex or generally emotions easier to exploit online. Newspapers themselves tend to post more negative stuff. It’s just a human bias, take it into account and watch around yourself to find the positive stuff of life









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    “Random” events of “evil”. Basically I think we’ll never reach something like 0 murders, 0 rapes, 0 stealing for little greed and so on. Or even 0 addiction (edit: i’m not including addiction to the previous list of crimes, i wanted to add it as another class of issues for we will never reach a true 0)

    We are very very far from the ideal situation tho, there is a looot of margin of improvement

    Like your alcohol thing in the post: ban only makes it worse and still now you (as US, not you OP) have a very weird relationship with alcohol with the thing that minors cannot touch it and people have to drink from a paper bag lol. Let’s say that you are not really trying hard to improve the situation. We’ll never reach 0 alcoholists but society is not in a good shape and alcohol is cheap so ye









  • Maybe it’s sharing public keys in person time again

    Honestly i’d like something that focuses on this rather than trying once again to be WhatsApp/telegram but secure

    The police already can easily know my irl social circle but I still don’t want to let them know when and why I talk to them

    Simplex was in a good direction then they took vc money while having startup status and they are aiming to replace other messengers