Could be someone excited to add content to peertube, which desperately needs it.

If you’re looking for a free VPN, I’ve had good experiences with https://riseup.net/en/vpn

What’s literally traumatizing are the scumbag sites that wait a little bit before showing you an email popup.

Like, I’ll be reading something and then BLAM! I’m immediately taken out of my focus and have to, for the 1 billionth time (and counting!), refuse to give them an email address.

Fuck everyone who encourages this bullshit. Fuck everyone who actually gives them emails. It’s likely an extremely low percentage of users, but that’s all that it takes to ruin things for the rest of us.

Scumbag sites like that are actively contributing to lowering everyone’s standards and making us get used to a ‘new normal.’

Sharing screencaps from mastodon is acceptable, but only because it combats screencaps from twitter.

so what ends up happening is that it just becomes a breeding ground for fascism.

I’ve never seen this myself. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s likely blown way out of proportion by the people children who can’t tolerate opposing viewpoints.

Can you people stop trying to browbeat others into supporting your agendas?

Not everyone has to agree with you on every online forum.

Yeah, I haven’t bought a game in years. Wish I could refund or resell most of the games I bought on Steam, but oh well. Live and learn.

Sailing the high seas has been a breath of fresh air. It’s nice to have greater ownership over my software than the rubes who pay for theirs, lol. And it’s cheaper!

Those other people don’t have to use Steam’s service if they don’t want to pay Steam a cut.

The entitlement among developers on Steam is atrocious. I think a lot of useful idiots were pushing alternative storefronts years ago in no small part because they’ve been conditioned to accept a worse experience so someone else can take more of their money.

Honestly, that’s really smart. It shows which businesses are playing the long game and which ones aren’t.

When democrats are back in office and businesses start re-instating DEI, Costco can always say they never got rid of them.

What a myopic view of the world.

Anyone can start a business and treat their employees and customers fairly. It’s just that in our Stockholm Syndrome Society, the businesses who abuse us are the most successful.

Really we just to implement an open protocol that launchers and games can both support.

And there’s always torrenting. Denuvo doesn’t actually stop games from being cracked.

Heck, I just cut out the middleman and go straight to torrenting.

Wish I had thought to do this sooner. I would’ve saved a lot of money that really just ended up in the hands of landlords.

Honestly, I’ve been weaning myself off Steam for awhile now. It’s great what they did to make PC gaming more accessible, but I also feel like Steam itself is an unnecessary dependency for most video games.

There should be protocols that games can implement to integrate with launchers and organize playing online.

I think Steam might be the only private company in this.

Really says a lot.

Can’t say I expected more from you.

Glad I can recognize stupidity when I see it these days.

that you don’t like or don’t agree with

Why don’t people like or agree with them?

They then will expect people to mirror the bot’s narrative without engaging because they think we are this stupid lol

What’s sad is, I can think of specific people I know IRL who will fall for this without a second thought.

Luigi is a hero and should be honored as such.

In Smash.

Public moderation logs need to become the norm.