Exactly the same!

• Librera
• Obtainium
• AI Wallpaper Changer
• Aegis
• Mihon/Tachiyomi/whatever-the-current-fork-is
• Termux

All of the above managed through Obtainium, directly from the source.

• Bitwarden (Google Play link)
• Eternity for Lemmy (Google Play link)
• HordeNG (taken down from Google play, but if was basically just a wrapper for a web app which you can install easily from the browser anyway - https://horde-ng.org)
• Baby Journal (also a web app wrapper, available as a web app at https://baby-journal.app)
• probably others from Google Play I don’t use that often and don’t remember whether they are open source or not

Three of those are made by me, but I also use them often (that’s why I created them in the first place).

Not how it works.

A number of games on GOG have DRM now

Not single-player ones. Online multi-player itself is kind of a DRM and there really is no way to make it otherwise. Not for a company of GOG size, anyway. And I’d argue that even if Steam made some forced open-server requirement, they would be abandoned fairly quickly.

They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

As I said, not because the company is the best, but because you have access to the game files and can do whatever. I’m under no illusion that they are perfect, but IMO the no-DRM-installers are the single most consumer-friendly move any game store has done. And no one forces them to.

@[email protected] Does the previous message sound like from an AI or someone imitating an AI?

Yes. But at least with the admin group I’m part of, it’s dealt with fairly quickly, because we employ automated tools to help fight the spam.

We also have auto moderators. The recent spam wave didn’t occur on my instance at all. But my Matrix notification channel sure did explode with messages of bots being banned.

That just won’t work. First and foremost, I won’t be hosting illegal stuff, just so you can have your freedom. Think child porn and stuff. Happened multiple times on Lemmy and probably will happen again. If you haven’t seen it, your admin most likely has and dealt with it.

And with stuff like Hexbear and other troll instances, I just don’t want to deal with tens of reports a day, I simply block them because they’re trolls.

If you want that kind of freedom, you have to create your own. I’m not gonna spend a significant amount of time on reports that can be avoided. And definitely not going to prison.

Well, at least I review the user profile in question when banning people. And take the whole context into account. Makes it harder, but I can usually ban people with clear conscience.

It started happening to me as well. And only on Lemmy.

True, forgot about that. Anyway, if you want a truly pro-consumer gaming, go to GOG. Not because the company is the best in the world, but because you buy the game, get the game files and you can do whatever with them (not in the legal sense, but who cares).

That’s purely profit driven. The biggest difference to other corporations is that they’re privately owned, meaning they can pursue long-term strategies instead of short-term ones. Publicly traded companies have to pursue short term strategies because otherwise investors get itchy and want to sell. Doing something that costs money and will yield results in ten years is a big no-no for publicly traded companies.

Everyone and their mother who makes any computer has to pay money to Microsoft because they put Windows on it. There are only a few outliers, most notably Apple and a few vendors who put Linux or no OS in there.

Valve doesn’t pay them shit, meaning they can sell the device cheaper, thus getting more customers. That’s the immediate gain. When you provide a gaming OS that you want to offer to others, you’re also the one getting paid for providing support. That’s the long term profit.

And through it all, as a nice bonus, they stopped being reliant on a single vendor and gained unbelievably great PR from a group of gamers.

It goes to the mods and to the admins of either the reporting user’s instance or the instance of the user being reported.

So whenever a lemmings.world user reports something, I know about it and whenever something by a lemmings.world user is reported, I know about it as well.

I personally don’t moderate content that breaks community rules, I think that’s the mods responsibility/privilege, but if it breaks instance rules, I deal with the comment/post/pm myself. Some of the other admins I know moderate the same way.

People don’t care about facts, but feelings. Valve executives don’t give a shit about people either and Valve is extremely anti-consumer half of the time, but people love them because feelings.

Damn, just recently I started working on something similar.

Just implemented it for fun on my instance (lemmings.world). Sadly you need to be a user of that instance for it to work. When logged in you go to https://lemmings.world/rss/init, afterwards a link is shown (among other information) that looks something like https://lemmings.world/rss/4e6490fe0613f6e2e03cd420f71df14476e769b57604652921c1a7b2150f0888 - that is your personal RSS feed of stuff you saved with a URL that cannot be guessed automatically (the hash is entirely random).

It could be made to work for all instances, but that would take me a while. You can also ask the admins to install the app on their website (it’s open source and can be found at https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss).

Exactly what I was talking about!

It’s wild to me, here in the EU only companies that you have some business with (or you have given them the permission in other ways) can message you.

So apart from scams, no company, for-profit or otherwise, will message you, unless you have business with them.

I sometimes watch videos by one US expat who lives in my country and this was one of the “reverse cultural shocks” (aka stuff that surprised her when she visited the US after living here for a few years) she mentioned and it was the first time I learned something like this happens in the US.

Change and improve sounds pretty much the same to me, as in the process is modifying it, only the intent changes.

I mean, Lemmy devs are tankies, who participate in misinformation sharing.

If you see some, report it. Some of us admins of other Lemmy instances take disinformation seriously.