KssioAug

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?

Do they want to make the switch? If they don’t, they won’t.

You can’t force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.

That’s why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they’re aimed to a public that’s not necessarily mainstream.

I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I’m not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don’t think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.

Another one bites the dust.

No thanks. I don’t need a closed source browser from an USA company, promising about privacy. I don’t trust them.

The pro-consumer pitch is typical of these startup.

I don’t even see the point of paying for their search engine, which honestly feels to me just a viral market stunt on social media to make people believe it’s that much different from the dozens free alternatives we already have.

Who would have thought that Stremio, after adding paid subscription, would not just not improve but actually get worse. That’s shocking.