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  • These were pretty reasonable takedowns. If you wanna sling garbage without repercussion, there's always hexbear

  • How does the fact that it employs some people who aren't russian make it a less-russian company? I'm from Canada and at one point worked for an American company - did that make it a Canadian company? Your premise is invalid.

  • What? They totally do. Look at all the US propaganda about the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, and the destruction of civilian lives in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Or the anti-communist propaganda, destruction of communist and socialist communities, and murders by the US government of those who threaten to make a better world for the people. Look at all the instances of the US overthrowing foreign governments, the US interventionist policy that lead to them overthrowing the democratically elected socialist government of Chile as they back a military coup.

    US search engines hide the truth on all this shit. They don't outright block it, but they make it difficult to find, if they list it at all.

  • I'd rather neither, and that companies open up their own storefronts with standalone downloads. Unfortunately we're in the age of Walmarts for games.

  • You realize that Tencent doesn't own Epic. They have a minority stake in them, as they do bluehole, ubisoft, activision blizzard, platinum games, paradox interactive, fatshark, funcom, and discord. They also wholly or majority own supercell, grinding gear games, and riot games.

    No discussion of these other companies devolves into saying that these companies personally aid in genocide. Why is that? As far as I can tell, it's just because a small contingency of gamers online don't like how popular fortnite is.

  • You're right, I did get the pseudo-quote backwards.

    As far as customer experience, that's one thing, and that's valid. "I prefer to use Steam because it has features Epic doesn't, even if one's a monopoly" though is very different from the quote above, which is distinctly about supporting X company over Y company; not about product difference, but actual support.

    Let's be real though, if Epic had literally just released Steam but with a good UI people would still boycott it, referencing xenophobic shit like "because china", angry at tim sweeney, complaining about another launcher, and anything else. The PC market has this really strange and uncomfortable adoration of Steam. It's console-warrior levels, really.

    I don't disagree that EGS is a lackluster product in many ways, but it's pretty clear that the complaints about it by and far are simply justification for a pre-existing opinion, both because of predisposition towards steam, and against "the guys who made that stupid fortnite game".

  • That's a stupid take. "I'd rather contribute to an existing monopoly than a potential one" is just saying you'd rather support a monopoly than any other corporation. Every corporation seeks monopoly. None are our friends, but we should at least try to make them as small and friendly in any particular industry as we reasonably can.

  • Matrix would be the perfect solution if it was more widely adopted.

  • Looking it up, there is WikiWikiWeb implements Federated Wiki, which Wikipedia describes its primary features as:

    adds forking features found in source control systems and other software development tools to wikis. [...]The software allows its users to fork wiki pages, maintaining their own copies. Federation supports what Cunningham has described as "a chorus of voices" where users share content but maintain their individual perspectives. This approach contrasts with the tendency of centralized wikis such as Wikipedia to function as consensus engines.

    Gonna look more into Federated Wiki today, because this sounds super interesting to me c:

  • No they won't. You need to be getting 10 gold every 30 days. The only people who may get anything of value from this are people who own large subreddits that can set posts by approval only any time news is about to drop.

  • Again, lemmygrad.com is literally on the blocked list, and it's easily verifiable. I did not know that lemmygrad.ml was where it was at now. Sue me ig.

  • It clearly did at one point as it's on their blocked instances list.

  • RIP Project G.G.

  • Off-topic, but with Astral Chain my biggest gripe was that the missions were soooo long with no way to save in the middle of one so I could pick it up later q-q

  • The cool thing about the Fediverse is that both can peacefully coexist.

    Ya I love this feature of the platform. Some instances can be strict on what content they want to have (e.g. beehaw and exploding-heads) while others can be the libertarian platform of their dreams (e.g. personal instances).

    It would be interesting to see some polling on this, but I'm no statistician and wouldn't be able to perform it in a way that wouldn't be bias, nor could I account for that bias. 😔

  • Just use the period. It's so weird you keep saying "dot".

    Anyways, notice what I said vs what your post contains:

  • Seems .com's no longer up. I guess .ml's just where they migrated to, is my best guess?