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.
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”.