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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Hey @BrikoX@lemmy.zip, thanks for making this community! I only just now found it. I'm the guy who was posting daily on villa-straylight in an attempt to grow !cyberpunk (I was identity-disc on that server). I'm still annoyed that just as I got the community to 1k subscribers, the server disappeared. I was really enjoying those conversations too.
Anyway, I don't know if we'll be able to grow this community as much as villa-straylight (that was during the peak reddit exodus so there were more people checking out Lemmy) but I'll post things here if I come across anything. Hopefully we can help make this community more active than !cyberpunk@lemmy.ml. 😜
In the meantime, can I suggest adding [Movie] and [TV] to your post prefixes? And maybe [Question] or [Discussion]? I know things don't really need to be tagged, but I do like the idea of prefixing posts.