parodia.dev — retro games · music

01 WHAT IS THIS PLACE

Parodia is a small, invite-only community for retro gaming and the music that came with it: chiptune, OSTs, soundtracks, the hardware that made them.

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. No single company owns the network.

The server lives in Europe, run by the community, not a company. There are no ads, no growth targets, and nobody optimising your feed.

02 THE COLONY

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AKKOMA

Where the timeline lives.

Microblogging connected to the wider fediverse. Post screenshots, hot takes, obscure hardware finds, and arguments about FM synthesis. Follows and followers work across Mastodon, Misskey, and the rest of the network.

ONLINE · ACTIVITYPUB

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LEMMY

The long-form commons.

Threaded communities and link aggregation for when 500 characters isn't enough. Hardware deep-dives, game preservation, music theory, CRT talk. Federated with the wider Lemmy and Kbin network.

ONLINE · ACTIVITYPUB

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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.

ONLINE · MATRIX PROTOCOL

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FUNKWHALE

The listening room.

Music hosting, streaming, and sharing. Upload rips, mixes, chiptune sets. Federated with the ActivityPub network so your library is accessible from anywhere.

ONLINE · ACTIVITYPUB

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PIXELFED

Show your shelf.

Photo sharing for the things worth photographing. Collections, hardware, box art, CRT setups, the lot. Instagram-compatible federation means your posts reach beyond the colony.

ONLINE · ACTIVITYPUB

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WRITEFREELY

Long reads, no noise.

Minimal long-form publishing. Write the retrospective, the preservation guide, the hardware teardown. No formatting cruft, no engagement prompts. Federated, readable anywhere.

ONLINE · ACTIVITYPUB

03 WHO THIS IS FOR

People who blew into a cartridge and tried it again (and now know that probably made it worse). Who can name composers. Who know the specs of every sound chip but still argue about who got the most out of them. And who have strong opinions about emulation vs real hardware, but we are not getting into FPGA today.

RETRO GAMING GAME PRESERVATION CHIPTUNE GAME OSTs COLLECTING HARDWARE CRT TECH FM SYNTHESIS DEMOSCENE EMULATION THE OPEN WEB

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