I hope it's the right place to write it,because my message is a bit off-topic from gamedev, but with the values of our community, a cry for help and an invitation to a discussion.
I'm very unhappy with the current state of privacy and the web in general, but I don't know what to do with it. So, it's obvious with privacy: buy a phone with available privacy roms, download librewolf or some other private open source browser, live happily eved after, but that's not the point for me.
I don't really need that much privacy, I want connection, I just don't want to use twitter or x or whatever .
Just make a website, you'll say . and I am. But I don't just want to scream into the void, I want to communicate. I want to know other people, I want to know You.
And an itch community, our community, is great in spirit (and I'm making a zine about how awesome it is. By the way, if you'll excuse a little tangent, zines are currently the best way I've found to communicate, but they're still very individualistic.), but it's very individualistic.
You can show off your art here and its really cool, but it still lacks communication features I and we (i hope) so desperately need.
Community page is a cool idea, but it's not very alive. I've tried starting conversations here and replying to other people with little success.
This post most certainly won't be read this far too.( Comment "banana" if you disagree, i dunno. ) Only if by the moderator if such off-top is off limits and I've chosen the wrong place to write it.
I don't have a solution or a conclusion, really, but I would love to know what you think. Or talk about anything really.
Our community is awesome.
Thank you!