invite-only · self-hosted in the EU · since 2024

parodia.dev

Games, music, lego, and an internet nobody owns.

A small, federated community for people who play, listen, and build, and who want an internet nobody owns. Run by the people in it, not a company. No ads, no algorithm, no feed deciding what you see.

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    01 the colony

    Everything running here, live.

    status refreshes every 60s
    service status live status
    social.parodia.dev
    Akkoma
    Where the timeline lives.
    Microblogging wired into the wider fediverse. Screenshots, hot takes, obscure hardware finds, and arguments about FM synthesis. Your follows reach across Mastodon, Misskey, and the rest of the network.
    activitypub
    lemmy.parodia.dev
    Lemmy
    The long-form commons.
    Threaded communities and link aggregation for when 500 characters is not enough. Hardware deep dives, game preservation, music theory, CRT talk. Federated with the wider Lemmy network.
    activitypub
    parodia.dev
    Matrix
    Real-time, end to end.
    Encrypted rooms for live chat, coordination, and whatever else needs to stay between the people in the room. Element compatible. Your keys, your messages.
    matrix
    writefreely.parodia.dev
    WriteFreely
    Long reads, no noise.
    Minimal long-form publishing. Write the retrospective, the preservation guide, the teardown. No formatting cruft, no engagement prompts. Federated, readable anywhere.
    activitypub
    gitea.parodia.dev
    Gitea
    Where the code lives.
    Self-hosted Git for the colony's projects: bots, dotfiles, preservation scripts, the forks worth keeping. Issues, pull requests, releases, all of it, without handing your repos to a megacorp.
    git
    news.parodia.dev
    Pete
    The newswire.
    An automated newswire. Pete watches a curated set of feeds (tech, gaming, world) and drops each story straight into the Matrix rooms. No infinite feed, no ranking, just the headlines as they land.
    rss · matrix
    reader.parodia.dev
    Miniflux
    Your feeds, your pace.
    A fast, no-frills RSS reader. Subscribe to the sites, blogs, and channels you actually want and read them in one place, on your own time. No tracking, nothing deciding the order for you.
    rss
    deals.parodia.dev
    Pastel
    The bargain bin.
    Free game alerts and storefront deals (Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic) posted to Matrix the moment they drop. Set a watchlist by DM and Pastel pings you when a game hits your price.
    deals · matrix
    auth.parodia.dev
    Authentik
    One login, every door.
    Single sign-on for the colony. One identity across the services that support it, with two-factor and OIDC, so you are not juggling a password per app.
    sso · oidc
    wiki.parodia.dev
    Wiki.js
    The colony handbook.
    Guides, runbooks, and the collected knowledge worth writing down. Searchable, versioned, and kept current, so the answer is written once instead of asked twice.
    docs
    element.parodia.dev
    Element
    Matrix, in your browser.
    The web client for the Matrix rooms. No install, the same encrypted chats, on any machine you sit down at. Sign in and your rooms are exactly where you left them.
    matrix
    uptime-kuma.parodia.dev
    Uptime Kuma
    Watching the watchers.
    Independent uptime monitoring for every colony service, with history and response times. The second opinion on the status board you are reading right now.
    monitoring
    vpn.parodia.dev
    Headscale
    The private mesh.
    A self-hosted control plane for a WireGuard tailnet. Reach colony machines directly and encrypted, with no ports left open to the wider internet.
    wireguard · tailnet
    apply.parodia.dev
    Parodia Registrations
    New player registration.
    Request an invite and set up your colony account. Tell us who you are and what you play; approved players get the keys to everything on this page.
    invite
    new player
    Request an invite ↗
    No account yet? The whole colony is invite-only. Tell us who you are and what you play.
    02 the idea

    Why this place exists.

    Parodia is a small, invite-only community built around the stuff we actually do for fun. Playing games, digging up music, building with lego. And around an internet that belongs to the people using it, not a company.

    Everything runs on open source software that federates with the broader internet. Your account here can follow, and be followed by, people on Mastodon, Misskey, and hundreds of other servers. You are not locked in, and no single company owns the network.

    The server lives in Europe, run by the community rather than a company. There are no ads, no growth targets, and nobody optimising your feed.

    03 who it is for

    People who lose a weekend to a new release or an old favorite. Who follow the music wherever it goes. Who'll happily lose an afternoon to a pile of bricks. And who'd rather their internet wasn't owned by anyone.

    gaming game preservation music chiptune & OSTs lego & MOCs collecting hardware the demoscene emulation the open web self-hosting the fediverse
    04 who it is not for

    A few honest mismatches.

    • People who want a large audience
    • People who plan to self-promote or sell things
    • People who won't read the rules before posting
    • People who are here because every other place banned them
    05 request clearance

    Membership is by invitation.

    Tell us who you are, what you play, and what you listen to. We read every request and answer the ones that fit. No bots, no waitlist theatre, just a person on the other end.

    Applications are reviewed by hand. You'll confirm your email first, then we'll be in touch — approved members get a link to set up their account.

    Request clearance →
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    Mastodon Misskey Pleroma Pixelfed PeerTube Kbin BookWyrm + more