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Self-hostable projects that are just for fun? (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Alright so my lab is pretty much functionally complete; it does everything I was hoping it would and much more.

OK so now what :D Do you know of any projects that are self-hostable and serve no functional purpose whatsoever and exist just for fun? Could be silly projects, could be games. I'd like to add a "silly things" section to my publicly facing list of web services.

For instance, I was thinking of hosting a web version of nethack. Also I enjoyed hosting a node of hypermind for a little while just because it was so silly.

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[–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like this but since it's on my own domain i'm going to refrain from illegal stuff.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Would it be a publicly available page, or accessible only for you?

    If it's a public page, you could possibly host shareware games or with other licenses with a similar effect.

    And there's plenty of games you can legally buy as ROMs (e.g. homebrews on Itchio), games that include ROMs in their files (e.g. River City Girls 0 on Steam, most Neo Geo releases on PC platforms and pretty much any MS-DOS game rerelease), and if you're from a region with laws not as draconian as the DMCA, there are games with ROMs embedded in their files and that can be extracted. So if it's a private page, you could go for those too.

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