Look, as annoying as this guy is, I am pretty sure he drew these himself. I think I am usually pretty good at spotting AI and his profile doesn’t raise any flags for me. Of course I could be wrong, but just by the fact that these are often photographed pieces of paper makes me think it’s real.

I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.

In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that’s just capitalism. That’s why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.

Use pairdrop.net, in my opinion, it’s pretty easy to convince people to use that, because it works well, is intuitive and they don’t need to install anything

That’s not how this stuff works. Gamers decide, what stores succeed, not game devs.

Also Valve has policies, that say that you can’t offer your game for cheaper elsewhere, which means, that gamers can never notice the difference between a 30% cut or an 8% cut.

That’s not how the network effect works. If Deva go elsewhere, nobody buys their game. Most people will never even know of the games outside of steam.

What about game devs though? They are clearly hurt already by the insane fees.

Just think about it. When you buy a game for 10€ on steam, steam get’s a flat 3.33€ just for giving you a “buy game” button. The gamedeev get’s maybe half of what you payed (Taxes, engine fees etc.).

Don’t you think, that there is something kind of fucked up about that?

WTF is this comments section here? I don’t give a rat’s fuck (if that is a thing), about what Tim Sweeney thinks about Valve, or if Valve is a good company or not.

Charging 30% of revenue for a digital store is clearly nit justifiable and Valve makes insane amount of profits just by having a near monopoly on PC game sales. They don’t need that much and it’s still just digital feudalism regardless if who does it.

You guys are just stuck in the good guy/ bad guy mentality and honestly, it’s kind of embarrassing to get this defensive over a company.

Servo and Ladybird can’t come fast enough man. I hope, that they are mature before Mozilla inevitabley crashes into the fucking ground.

I actually think servo has a much better chance of making it, because it is better managed, supported by the Linux Foundation and their lead devs don’t give weird right-wing vibes like “Andreas Kling”.

Codeberg is also really nice if you are doing open source

You can definitely go outside, just try it