Yeah no. Not discussing with stans. Monopolies are bad. That is irrefutable, scientific fact. They erode the markets they are in.

Its so interesting how averse all of lemmy (and reddit before) reacts when someone dares to challenge their dopamine fix.

Monopolies = bad

No two ways about it.

Although I agree that steam has done a lot for indies, the issue remains, no matter how many stans downvote me.

The monopolist in this case sells the games to the gamers. It is steam. You have practically no chance to sell games outside of steam and although there is good reason for it being popular, its not healthy.

Disclaimer: this is my opinion as an IT worker and dev, not fact. Please be constructive.

I feel with the folks losing their jobs or seeing their indie studio crash and burn.

That said, I feel like they’re starting to pay the price for letting a monopoly dictate game sales (as benevolent and popular this monopolist is, I know I will again be brigaded for this).

As another commenter said, the industry still tries to go ahead with triple or even quadruple A games, push hype and sell to underage gamers practically gambling games with hero faces.

Then there arent enough unions to hold companies to a standard because in the IT world as a whole, people are used to their privilege. „Trust me bro“ is still seen as a valid strategy in this business.

All while customers get put on pink glasses to make them oblivious to the fact that IT work is just a craft, like carpentry, but less known. The amount of buzz words and bullshit in the industry is appalling and needs to go, double time.

A dev should be judged by their ability to develop, not play corporate mindgames or „speak the lingo“.

Actually, this has been discussed on lemmy and we tried to set something up but it didnt pan out afaik. Feel free to push for it or link it if you find something that would work.

Exactly my thought. Thank you for pointing that out.

That would be neat as well. :) thanks for sharing.

There actually already is steamdb which does that exact thing. The reason I suggested it is because probably all would benefit from it.

One that splits my money over open source projects per my usage (I tell them). Currently it is too hard to find all donation links of all projects one uses and then keep an eye on them, update payment info and amount. Also if many people donate small amounts it would lessen the overhead compared to one person donating small amounts.

I understood that. Sorry if that wasnt clear.

What I‘m saying is please (who can) consider asking and paying people for implementing this stuff.

For example: voice chat in discord (or any) bridges isnt implemented because it is a lot of work but it is doable.

Consider making a gofundme for paying someone to do it if you cant afford it yourself.

One reason why open source is far behind prorietary stuff (foss can be commercial, see nextcloud) is because people keep thinking anything in life is actually free.

There is no such thing as free lunch. If you‘re getting free software it is because someone donated their time to make it.

In case of discord: make an issue on the mautrix bridges for example and add a financial incentive if you can so people can afford to make this for you. Good luck :)

No problem.

I can see how one would struggle to use these bridges. They‘re not polished yet. Have you donated to the maker yet? Because people keep comparing stuff that people make for free in their free time to multi million dollar priducts.

We should all either put in work or money before we allow ourselves to judge these apps. I personally spend 1% of my income additionally to helping the development.

Maybe it was silently assumed but nobody so far mentioned the endless stream of scrapers that go through my probably juicy but private instance. I‘m banning a new bot every week and by now they have switched to distributed actions. I get over 400 requests per hour by a couple ips for the same stuff with changing useragents because I wrote automated detection mechanisms. I might just make my instance login only.

Check the site https://verfassungsschutz.de

There you have sections leftist and fascist extremism and numbers to go along. Leftist crimes are around 4k, fascist around 23k iirc in the recent past (2023)

Germany in the meantime: „leftist extremism is threatening the democratic system“ [quote from the constitution protection agency] while fascist crimes outnumber them 5 to 1. All that while the EU keeps trying to sneak chatcontrol by us through the backdoor, again and again.

I dont have that much hope for our world tbh.

What part do you feel is horrible? I enjoyed playing it a lot.

I’m monitoring the cpu and ram and so far the server isnt utilizing it except short bursts which dont max out anything. i’ll try and optimize the network first and then go for performance. i suppose its a multi stage issue by now. will update on the matter.

i can see how this would be an interesting function. sadly, we’re, nowhere near an end user ready experience in any non corporate messenger. it very much still depends on how tech savvy the user and how good the admin is. until that changes I’m gonna unilaterally say no to reinventing any wheels and say fix the stuff we have before adding more functionality.

E3 1220v3 3.5 ghz

Xeon 4 core, 4 threads, 16 G DDR4 ram, onboard graphics.