If you're looking for a FLOSS alternative to meetup, check out Get Together (https://gettogether.community/). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I enjoyed the Monsters Inc reference and the turning of it on its head central to this piece. But we've said/argued this for years and at the end of the day engagement = ad reach = profits and until the economics there change any for-profit social media will gravitate towards engagement. An actual community built around Mastodon seems possible, and there's community discussions around private group chats but... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

It's more comparable to meetup, but Get Together is entirely events focused. Source: over 2 years ago

Https://aeplay.org/citybound might be interesting or the talks related to it given that (afaik) it simulates traffic better than simcity. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

However, there has been some research and experimentation with it, namely Citybound can (and does) distribute the simulation work across different players playing in the same instance, but this is "only" a Bachelor (or Master or PhD, whatever) thesis, not really a fully playable game. Source: almost 2 years ago

Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation\ (63 comments). Source: almost 2 years ago

I don't know about Lunatic, but there's a bunch of Rust actor frameworks that run on many machines. I think I saw one that supported moving an actors between machines For example, Kay https://github.com/aeplay/kay (used in https://aeplay.org/citybound) I'm less sure about Axiom https://docs.rs/axiom/0.2.1/axiom/ And then there is Bastion https://crates.io/crates/bastion that I think allows moving an actor to... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago