fear and insecurity

WARNING! THIS POST TALKS ABOUT VERY SENSIBLE TOPICS. IF YOU CAN'T REALLY HANDLE SUCH TOPICS AS SA, I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND GOING FORWARD.

I've been a ROBLOX player for approximately 11 or so years. But I haven't been a "Roblox" player. And I would be ashamed to ever call myself so. The corporation itself has always been what it is, with no denial. I can't treat like they've been angels in past years, because that would be a blatant lie. ROBLOX would never be better than Roblox in many, many aspects. The engine improvements are an example. There are wonderful games on Roblox I suppose, but the traction the games get will never be the same as ROBLOX. The engine will never be truly put to use with effort if developers are always looking to comply with what the crowd demands. There is never doing something "just because". The existence of DevEX has some fault for this. Videogames are a medium, a type of art. Art was supposed to be for everyone. But it is not.

you're not safe where you stand

It's not exaggeration when some say modern social media has normalized extreme standards and mentalities. Roblox and ROBLOX plays a big role on this, as well as any other popular social media app. The normalization of sexual assault, general harassment, stalking and hatred has consumed these networks like a predator. I have been SEXUALLY ASSSAULTED, HARASSED and CHASED because my character looked slightly androgynous. My sister has had her character humped so many times while I was watching her play it just disgusts me, and proves my point ever further. With no consequence to whoever committed to these actions. This has motivated me to stay very far away from fandoms and communities in general, afraid of what could happen to me possibly again. I'm tired of not being able to feel included.

nothing can be put over this

It doesn't matter how much Roblox advances it's engine and technology. It will always be behind on it's corporate practices and horrible moderation. A concept that started well enough to take off. But now it fails to even provide what it once promised. It's no longer a safe fun space like it was for me every single day some years ago. But that doesn't mean all of this didn't happen. It doesn't mean the victims from any time don't matter. Now everyone plays Roblox, while I wish I had all these people to play ROBLOX with me all those years ago.

fear

Every time I join a game on Roblox I feel unsafe. Because I can't help but think what this platform stands for now. It's impossible to have fun to me because of the fear I feel. I've been on multiple subsidiary communities, but they've been just as bad if not worse. If you can, just get away from this game. Don't let people you know get corrupted and just accept whatever these corps throw at them. Stand for something you are sure is good and does any difference in your life. Because long ago, I realized. Defending this platform stands for nothing. Even saying I used to love it disgusts me. It's just an insult to myself. Run and make yourself safe before it gets to you. Please. It's not healthy.

disappointment and radical turns

I'm sure that when you're passionate about something on-going, you're always hoping the best for it. Be it a bright future or success for anyone behind these projects. You dedicate hours of your time to make your point stand on it's own legs, just to get destroyed by whoever is in charge in seconds. It pains you to see something you really thought was worth your time turn into nothing of actual value, just because the people behind it don't have the same intention and thought as you do. They rip out the soul. They rip out what you know of it. But that's life. And it couldn't get worse.

after years of persistence and hope

It's annoying as hell to see them take these god awful decisions after going for such a good cause that is the FOSS one but completely stepping on it. Proving the point that the scene itself is full of selfish nerds who punt rocks at you for things that aren't your fault. I've been mistreated and surely other people have too by the Revolt staff, when all they had to do was their jobs. I don't care if this is business. That was never clear anyway. If their intent from the start was going this way while masking themselves as a "FOSS" alternative to attract enthusiasts like me, then I'm not disappointed at all. But it still comes, because I'm a human after all. They wrote (wild thing to say) a blog post that not only feels AI generated, but is a lot of bull doo doo sausage filling to waste some minutes of your life reading.

people aren't stupid

And they'll realize at some point. Atleast, the ones that really care about what they came for. Staying on the platform at this point is a waste of time because it will have the same demise as the one people escaped from. They want you to use the main instance and make it hell to self-host it, being hostile whenever any questions about the repos are asked. What kind of FOSS project is this? What you trying to achieve with this attitude? The truth is, there are no answers. This isn't FOSS anymore. You have no support and are on your own to figure out how to run and fix their shitty rust code.

good for them

Quite honestly, good for them. They'll get everything they want. Users, money, investment and a load of other business related crap. I may not be any business person, but I speak for myself, and I won't let my points be unheard. I integrated the platform in my life and brought friends just for it to go on a completely opposite direction. That's great. Hope you guys enjoy yourselves. Have a nice time.

its not about it being better or worse

its about not centralizing yourself

most people turn their noses on the idea of creating new accounts on platforms different from what they already use, with the argument that none of their friends do. but you are an individual. you have the free will and choice to support an action that's actually worth your time.
this doesn't mean you need to stop using what you do
just look for safer alternatives. depending on only one platform and centralizing yourself is not healthy, mainly because you are just making it harder for different people to reach you when they need
i've only had discord to talk to friends and family (example), but my morals and worries go higher than that
so i managed to bring over lots of people from discord and now they integrate the use of something else daily because of me
and i've integrated different things in my day to day because of people too
it can be tiring to only use one thing, you know

how to host your own dp wdf

Requirements

• linux server or machine (you could try translating the instructions to mac or windows but idk about them)
• nodejs and npm
• mongodb, memcached
• cloned copy of my fork on your machine because its not broken

steps

• on a terminal window that's cd'ed in your clone, type npm i to install the stuff it needs
• after that start the NAS and WDF services with
  node src\gameserver.js serve nas --env dev --http-port yourporthere
  node src\gameserver.js serve wdf --env dev --http-port yourporthere
  
• be sure memcached is running on port 11212 or else the server will not start
• there you go, now clone or download the patcher and point the constants in the config.js file to your machine's ip and the ports you chose in the ip:port format

final considerations

i did not want to gatekeep this info because its fun to host things yourself annd i hate gatekeepers
if there's any errors, you're on your own because i have no idea on how to fix them either

thing

what the hell do i put here idk put something funny to distract whoever click on this