I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Tempted to run the RSS feeds just for each community I follow, to see how many I get in a fresh instance of my reader. But qualitative instead of quantitative, I can notice pretty much every week I have to unfollow some group because it’s too much to keep track of.

Isn’t Lemmy older than 6 years though? Dunno on the federation aspect, but sorting posts on Lemmy instances by oldest first shows a few older posts.

Still, by the time these oldest posts were made, Reddit was already some 10 years old to my knowledge, and we can’t even be sure if their active users’ numbers are real due to lack of transparency and these numbers coming from a single source instead of being a sum of several independent ones.

And at least an impression of mine, but in these ~4 years I’ve been around, engagement seems to be growing slowly but steadily. And I’d need to put on a graph the data shared about the growth of the fediverse from another community, but the numbers overall seem to be growing there too.

On taking down Reddit, I’d advise against it. Competition is what lets products and services improve. What I’d expect in an organic competition, however, is for Reddit to deflate into a shadow of its former self, keeping only a nicher usefulness, like Tumblr did and thus becoming just another forum.

Iirc “spam” comes from a skit from Monty Python criticizing how prevalent the brand was, to the point it felt like it was everywhere.

But unlike a product in the market, posts are easier to tackle. If the poster/reposter becomes an annoyance, the user just needs to block or, depending on the software and desire, mute the poster/reposter. If just certain domains are an annoyance, block the domain either natively if possible, or with extensions, scripts and/or filters. If just specific posts are a problem, voting and/or hiding posts can be done.

So imo, while the volume can be a tad annoying, if the annoyed users do use the features provided by the platform or more extremely by extensions, these posts shouldn’t become the meme of Monty Python’s joke on the canned food.

By this reasoning, the rate limiting added to PieFed recently-ish starts making far more sense. Not what you propose and not Rimu’s reasoning that I’d seen, but should also help decreasing the acceleration of resources consumption.

Hopefully it doesn’t get the Denuvo treatment 🤞

UE games looks rubbery/plastic to me since at least the PS3, the point which I started paying attention. No matter how good a dev is, sadly I can’t hold hopes for such a promise.

Licenses are far older than digital contents, and the PS Vita, which I wonder which is the company behind it, gave a concrete example that consoles can make backups, and that’s halfway there.

Furthermore, another platform, GOG, explicitly states in its service contract that users are allowed to keep the contents they get. Similarly, when the service was active, Humble Bundle’s Humble Trove explained right at the beginning of its page that games included in the selection were free to be kept once downloaded. Two examples of decently-sized for-profit companies allowing for digital ownership.

Sony’s defence to me sounds a lot like gaslighting.

RIP

Wasn’t aware =O

RSS helps avoiding part of the BS those “2010’s platforms” put the users through, like curating what you follow, having access to shadowbanned users and groups, and redundancy in case those you follow get banned, “mysteriously” gone from a given platform, the platform becomes unreachable, etc.

Sauce according to SauceNAO:
https://x.com/pacpoi/status/2049540272607166707

No Nitter because of the C&D letter sadly =/

The author is also on Bluesky though it doesn’t seem to have been posted there:
https://bsky.app/profile/pacpoi.bsky.social

Can’t help with so little details.

Regarding the OP, deja vu…

But about including ActivityPub to one’s own site, if I may add, Wordpress, NeoDB and Threads have integrations to it, Tumblr considered it even if the idea was dropped later on, and Bridge Fedi is a thing for federating to/from Bluesky and other AT Protocol platforms. So if @PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com thinks it’s within scope, go crazy, I’d say.

Egyptians worshiped cats. Now I have the image of Bast getting booped and becoming flustered in my head. 🤭

For prices, no. For the social aspect, yes.

Also, as others said, @Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone, if the game is on a DRM-free-oriented platform, like GOG, Itchio, etc., you could look for those.

Additionally, looking for sources of a given game can help find where it’s less of a hassle to get it, specially through databases or adjacent, like PCGamingWiki, ITAD, NeoDB (fediverse-compatible!), GameFAQS, etc. Also apparently it isn’t uncommon for databases to cross-reference each other, so one can lead to another.

If the game is only on Steam, install Linux on a VM, install Wine in it, run SteamCMD through Wine, download the build you want, and move to your host OS.

SteamCMD is a minimalist/terminal-based version of Steam. The Windows version can be downloaded separately. However, it downloads needed libraries and I’m not sure how good Steam is at escaping Wine’s environment, so a VM adds an extra security layer. Also the command changes depending of whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit, if it’s for Linux, MacOS or Windows, or even if it’s a previous, still public update, and it’s been some years since I used those and I don’t have the commands noted down, so can’t help with that at least right now.

If something’s allowed to be pirated, it can’t be pirated.

Haven’t played many recent homebrews, but of the recent-ish games I did play, other than Micro Mages mentioned in another comment, there’s Nyx - The Paradox Relic (NES) and Tanglewood (Mega Drive).