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The Promised LAN Manifesto

Scoresby

> In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together in what we now call The Promised LAN. The idea is simple—fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things. We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

I've had a similar experience to this guy in some ways.  I remember the weird intersection of hyper-social and hyper-tech.  I never really thought about bringing it back; the default thing to drop into is to assume that all that stuff we did was in service of what we now have, in vastly improved form, instead of being for its own sake.  

Sometimes, metaphorically, the barn-raising is for the act of shared work, and the fellowship and interdependence, not because you want a barn so bad.  It was easy to miss that.  It's still easy to miss.