Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes things back to the basics: stick in a ‘cartridge’ you make yourself, turn on the system, and play. That’s it! No fuss, just the game you wanted to play.
What makes it extra fun is that the ‘cartridges’ are really just SD cards you load games onto. Label them, stack them, swap them around, it’s built to make you feel like you’re back in the ’90s, digging through a shoebox of game carts. For someone who wasn’t alive for that era of gaming (not even close, honestly), it’s a neat little glimpse of what it was like. A tactile vision of when games came on actual carts…well, kind of.
Kazeta is a neat mix of nostalgia and practicality, especially if you’re tired of modern gaming feeling like a chore.
I got the chance to chat with Alkazar, the dev behind Kazeta, and he shared some great insights into building the OS. This feature pulls together our conversation and what makes the project so unique.
Oh good, another software project developed behind the proprietary closed doors of an AI datafeed machine
…It’s where the humans are, dude. I guess a gitlab or github would be better, but the users are on discord for conversations.
Mumble is a niche of a niche
Teamspeak is for ARMA and the pretentious
I can only speak of two people in my life who use Matrix
I cant think of anyone who uses guilded.
At some point that has to not be enough.
The much more likely explanation is that people have no self respect. That they’ve given into the corporate surveillance and advertising machine because they just don’t care.
The worst thing is: every bit of knowledge on the Discord Guild (“”“server”“”) becomes an exclusive silo, unsearcheable and unindexable. It’s the worst case scenario for any software community, which is also why I dislike Nibara a lot.
It really is a mask off moment IMO and watershed between the people who actually care for the philosophy of free/libre software and those who – just like corporations – only see it as a more efficient development model…
…or it’s the networking effect of having a well-known easily accessible platform?
Usually for greater shifts to a new community/platform to occur, the original userbase/platform has to have an experience so unusable/egregious to the average user for them to switch. Lemmy/the Fediverse, for example, had a critical mass of users join after two incidents of self destruction by incumbents - Reddit’s API changes, and Twitter after Musk’s acquisition.
Discord hasn’t done this yet, and until the management performs an action that would lead to a mass migration (which could occur in the near future now that the company is publicly traded), the users that this developer needs for feedback and support are on discord. That is the primary reason so many projects are on discord. People don’t hate forums - they’re just on the platform that they’re familiar with, filled with their friends and community members.
Yeah you’re just repeating everything I already said in different words. And like every “well-known, easily accessible platform” it’s being exploited by it’s owners. They exploit your relationships and communities to hold you hostage. And everyone just seems totally fine with this. And it’s infuriating. It’s against everything open source stands for.
Yes, but this is textbook “preaching to the choir” here. Are your positions and comments valid on the situation? Yes, but we have to consider our current reality here - Discord has NOT had its “Reddit API” or “X.com” moment yet for the majority of the userbase. Until that time comes, we will not have enough of a platform migration to sustain the open alternative.
Is Discord a fundamentally flawed platform? Yes. Have they used their defacto VOIP/message board platform monopoly maliciously? Yes. However, not enough users are alarmed, and not enough annoyances have built up for the day to day experience for people to get out of their comfort zone and migrate.
So explain your values all you wish. I understand and agree. But the majority of those users who would like to contribute and provide feedback to the project are not informed or are willing to switch. You’re definitely not going to reach them on the Fediverse.
I’m obviously not because there are people here downvoting me and acting like this shit doesn’t matter, such as yourself.
I don’t know what this is supposed to mean? We should continue contributing to their malicious monopoly because we haven’t been fucked hard enough yet? What is your point?
Then don’t give them the choice. Every project hosted in Discord contributes value to them and perpetuates their malicious mistreatment of all of the users of the project, while simultaneously violating the fundamental tenets of open source. Things will certainly only continue to get worse with Discord. They’ve only just IPO’d. Why wait?
I created several Discord communities myself. I had a “server” with nearly 1k people and when Discord began incessantly harrassing me with ads despite actually having a current subscription, I burned that motherfucker down. Erased everything, told everyone Discord sucks, and deleted my account and the “server”.
We’re all just fucking doomed because no one respects themselves or their community members/family/friends enough to take simple steps to move away from malicious platforms and their “network effects”. That’s the “current reality”.
lol i feel this XD
Thank you for proving my point.