Follow

So far, my antidote to commercial software trying to sell me on increasingly more dubious AI has been to go back to creative software I enjoyed a decade ago. Which specifically means I've been spending a lot more time on my 2DS XL messing around with Colors! 3D and Pokemon Art Academy again. (I also plan to mess with Flipnote again at some point.)

I'm also very amused that Pretendo Miiverse is absolutely thriving, including and especially around the community for Splatoon 1.

Folks at the time specifically harped on Nintendo for its online perspective being naive and outdated, and to be fair, it was!

But in a world in which an always-on internet connection with vendor software updates means ever more elaborate ways to sneak in ads, rent you your own data, and exfiltrate your data to soulless content farms, a device with community updates, simple tools, the ability to post, and the ability to stay fully offline is the absolute best thing.

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!