If people get enough from a free demo maybe it’s time to make shorter cheaper games, and start churning out 2 hour playtrough 15usd games, but with high quality graphics/acting/voices/etc. Or just abolish capitalism and make fun games no matter if they sell or not 😂

If demos hurt sales, that means that game devs depend on gamers buying games they don’t actually end up liking right? I understand making games has become pricier and pricier, but if the whole business model is dependent on “We want to trick people into getting stuff they don’t want”, then we have a problem.

Different instances have different ideologies. You can get a user on “everything-conservative” which blocks half if the federation, or you can get into a free for all instance which allows all. Big generic instances like lemmy.world do have a big problem on their hands, they have to make the bubble the common denominator of all users, which is hard to know.

I think the beauty of federation is that each instance can have it’s own moral code, I figure we will see everything-not-illegal-lemmy.com at some point, without any conmunity except meta ones, with admins that just do not de-federate from anything else.

You can be part of any instance that aligns with your values. And each community can decide which instance to live in. If some community wants to live in an instance which allows everything so anyone can comment, then maybe they move or start their own.

And I don’t think only horrible people would want this. I figure some community like suicide watch might want to allow everyone to comment no matter where they are from. Making de-federation the only option would suck, but it’s not. There can be different bubbles, and bubbles which contain them.

Could we also use AI in our benefit? We could try coding an AI mod helper, that tries to detect and flag which posts are irrelevant/agressive/etc. It can take the data of all modlog instances, and start learning what probably needs to be banned, and then you can have a human confirming the data every time. We could even have a system like steam’s anticheat where a few users have to validate reports as a user.

Even if they do, they would not be able to force instance owners to update to the closed version. And people would take over the last available open source version and fork it. Also, a closed and open source version could co-exist, since the api is open.

Yeah things have improved a lot! And emulators like yuzu being open source really helps.

Yeah! If there’s too much attention from US companies the instances related to piracy can just move. I’m wondering what’s the law for US residents who host their website in another country, do they still have to respect US laws?

Oh damn, sorry, yeah, makes sense to link locally. Just changed it.

They do stuff like that sometimes, like twitter is doing now, by putting a woman CEO right after Elon set everything on fire, so that twitter vocal minority can blame her and say that Elon was doing everything better. It’s what they call the Glass Cliff. Something similar might be happening here, without the anti-feminist part.

I’ve been trying to post content on all niche subreddits I used to lurk in. I basically get the non-reddit links and useful resources and start sharing them here.

Because a company has control behind it, not the people

At this point I think he’s immolating himself on purpose, and after the api changes are done a new saviour CEO will come, who won’t reverse anything, but with a clean record.

Soulseek is my last resources for music, people have EVERYTHING there.

I’m not, so I guess all I can do is wish you good luck! I hope un-deleting comments does not just happen like that without repercussions.

Someone would have to look at the terms and conditions. It’s possible there’s a clause like “anything you write is ours” in legal speak.

I know magnet links are just links, but post sharing them are still copyright infringement right?

So there’s no way to scrape an instance to back it up as a third party?

I understand someone not wanting to have pirated content on their instance, but do you think mods will go out of their way to un-federate?

I wonder how will Google’s algorithm treat lemmy in the future. Maybe the uncontrolled/federated nature of it will make google ignore it.

I can already find some stuff on lemmy if I search for it. It will take time for everything to be indexed but I think it will work ok eventually.

No problem! Glad you could make it work :)