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Sophie Feb 22, 2025

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

This page is under construction - localghost

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

localghost

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nora 🦝

Feb 22, 2025

@sophie Hello! The grass tileset on your page was made by me 9 years ago. The credits on your about page mention someone on itch.io who took it and edited it without mentioning me and didn't re-license it under CC-BY-SA, even though that's a requirement. It's not a big problem as there's no real damage done but i still think it's not okay because it's violating the CC-BY-SA license.

Here is the original from 2016: https://opengameart.org/content/grass-tileset-16x16

Grass Tileset 16x16

Woah... It took me some time, but i... I made my very first tileset! From scratch! Ever! A tileset! From me! Made with my OWN hands! :DThe archive includes a sample map for the Tiled editor with predefined brushes, so you can easily play around with the tileset. You can download Tiled here: http://www.mapeditor.org/

OpenGameArt.org

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Sophie

@nora oh my goodness thank you for letting me know! I will update the links when I get home

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nora 🦝

Feb 22, 2025

@sophie I just checked out the video that the person you're crediting links to, showing how the tileset was made. In the video (which is from 5 years ago) it looks as if they made it just for the video but it looks exactly the same, except for their additions, the grass borders and some of the dark stalks. Even the colors are 100% identical, i checked the hex color codes in GIMP.

I find that a very unlikely coincidence and would suspect they probably re-made it from scratch while taking mine as the base, perhaps so they can strip the license. I wouldn't consider that to be fair play.

Now, i don't expect you to edit your website layout. You can continue using their grass tileset if you want but since it's obviously a remake of mine i think it would be fair to mention me. Keep in mind though that their tileset doesn't have a license stated which means that standard copyright applies, with all the insecurities and risks that come with it. With Creative Commons licenses you're on the safe side.