This week was eventful including a significant and highly anticipated event in my life as a gamer. The long-awaited launch of Dwarf Fortress on Steam and Itch.io.

A trip down memory lane for an iconic game

I’ve stated a few times that the purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journey into self-hosted, decentralized, and federated software and services. The reasons are to keep my technical skills sharp, route around censorship, and just be more independent from “big tech”. I recently came across a YouTube series called Back to the BBS which got me thinking about one of the original self-hosted, decentralized, and federated community platforms - the dial-up bulletin board system.