By now my GOG library has far exceeded my Steam library in size. I was surprised by how many games on my Steam wishlist are also on GOG.

For context, Steam is now forced to display this due to a new law passed in California: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

Valve is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

What exactly did Palworld steal? Surely you have sources for your claims

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

Where’s the meme

I hope one day we will find a method to finance websites operating costs without ads.

Never. People don’t want to donate, people don’t want to pay a subscription fee, people don’t want to watch ads. People want everything on the internet for free.

Your money is honestly better spent donating to new efforts like Ladybird or Servo.

Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.

So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?

The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.

My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.

This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.

I can understand defederating from Threads, but transitive defederation is bordering on insanity.

This will do nothing but exert peer pressure onto instances that wish to remain impartial. Transitive defederation will play right into Meta’s hands by fragmenting the Fediverse further.

It’s not a circlejerk. It’s called the network effect and it’s a legitimate phenomenon.

Yes, I am.

You need to understand that an online library on Steam et al is not ownership.

Having the files on your own harddrive, without any dependencies to external services, that is digital ownership.

Not any game. Games that depend on third-party DRM may still demand a brief internet connection during offline mode.

You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.

A good portion, yes. The rest you’ll have to crack.