Horse Drawing Tycoon 2: The Manual

It is a tycoon game where you draw horses indefinitely.

Perhaps more importantly, it is an absurdist, open-source peer-to-peer social network.

Why Should I Care?

If you'll excuse the use of a term that's going to go plenty stale before the end of the decade and fade into obscurity forever-after: there's no possible way for me to enshittify this: not only is no money involved at all, I have also designed it in such a way that I have extremely limited control over the network at large. Also: it has started out pretty shittified from the get go, as a result of my fairly nonexistant stance on quality.

horsedrawingtycoon.com is hosted out of a closet.

It doesn't matter: the network exists outside of my computer.

How Much Does it Cost?

It's free. Forever. As I said, not only is there no price, there's no way for me to change my mind and start charging one. There are no ads. There can't be ads. If there were ads, you could simply stop following them or rewrite your client to hide them.

Well Then How Will You Support Your Work on This?

I mean, I have a job. Also, on account of this being a peer-to-peer network, it doesn't cost me much to run. Maybe I'll throw up a Patreon or something at some point.

Is It Stable?

ha ha, i see what you did there.

But no.

How Do I Get Started? Do I Create an Account Here?

Hell no! This server isn't for you! This isn't mastodon where you join some big node that's being run for you by competent professionals. If you want to participate in the network, you need to download the most recent release.