Who’s Amadioh Chess? I’ve not come across them.

Some dev theoretically might not like a mod decision Valve theoretically makes, so the only logical solution is to expect every single dev that publishes on the platform to commit to moderating Valve’s game-specific forums forever.

Yes, good moderation is expensive. Externalising that cost onto devs is, frankly, exploitative. Also, “a few anti-woke weirdos” is a massive understatement. The modern reactionary movement is heavily tied to gaming and Steam plays a major role in that.

So devs not only have to give Steam 30% percent of every sale, but they also have to provide the additional labour of keeping hate speech off the platform in perpetuity.

If Valve doesn’t want to do moderation, they shouldn’t have got into the social media business. It’s their platform and they’re ultimately responsible for it.

Jimmy the Giant branded them as Cotwolds supremacists which just feels very apt.

If you pump enough money into Linux gaming and do regular sales, a lot can be forgiven apparently. Steam Discussions are one of the most miserable places on the internet I go to semi-regularly and I don’t understand how Steam just gets a pass for the stuff that’s normal there.

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You hate Brianna Wu because she’s a woman game dev.

I hate Brianna Wu for being a pick me chud.

We are not the same.

Epic sold Bandcamp to Songtradr in 2023.

The best platform for this is unfortunately American, Bandcamp. 82% of all the money you spend goes to that artist (that’s what they claim) and if you wait until a Bandcamp Friday, they waive their 15/10% fee entirely.

I’m not sure if it counts as indie, but I played Eriksholm in December and enjoyed it quite a bit. I’m also playing TR-49 at the moment that’s scratching my Roottree itch.

once got a 2 day ban from .ca for reporting a screenshot of a post by someone named “princess”. I was marking the post for later deletion because we don’t want content from hereditary monarchist users, and the .ca admins didn’t get it. My anarchism was a bit too radical for them to understand.

This gives the impression of being needlessly tedious to deal with, not radicalism.

From what I know, no unfortunately.

“I trust the admin here and don’t know about the admin there” is honestly fair. I can see where you’re coming from now, it was just a bit ambiguous.

But yes your name is a bit confusing as well!

Technically, we came first, so it’s the Jerries that are the copycats! (We technically got it from feddit.de, but I didn’t choose the name so my hands are clean)

Admin that had access to the server went AWOL in October and now the server has died.

Nazi bar is certainly a new one. I honestly don’t even know what we’ve done to deserve the accusation, I think we’re being confused with .org here.

I don’t mind if people want nothing to do with us, but I’d appreciate it if it was for stuff we did. Like, I don’t think I can credibly be called a Zionist. Someone once nuked their whole instance because I pushed back on the whole criticising Israel = antisemitism thing!

planned on Lemmy 1.0.

Closed as not planned: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3415

You haven’t been able to do that since 2017, the European Court of Justice said so.

The right doesn’t need the left to do something to do it, they just do it. Reform in Kent already tried to do a ban against books with ‘transgender themes’ (this was later revised to adult transgender books being in the children’s section after backlash). If we’re going to not exercise power, it should be for something more than a fear the right will also do it, because the right doesn’t care and will do it anyway.

On Wednesday the supreme court unanimously ruled that Oatly can no longer trademark, or use, the slogan “Post Milk Generation”.

This is even dumber when you realise Oatly is explicitly prompting themselves as not-milk.

I’m going to assume you know about Yogi Bear.

Wes Streeting is the current health secretary and belongs politically to the Labour right (and is a massive twat). Peter Mandelson was an influential politician in Balir’s New Labour and kind of just never left, playing a part in McSweeney and co’s purging of the left from the party after Corbyn resigned and Starmer got elected. As part of this, they stuffed the higher levels of the party with loyalists to Starmer and gave Mandelson the ambassadorial role to America, despite his established connections to Epstein (Jim Pickard at the FT has been loud about this for years). Mandelson is now in trouble because the recent batch of Epstein files have revealed he’d been selling state secrets to Epstein and everyone close to Mandelson is also getting swept up in it, Streeting included.

This piece is him trying to wash his hands of this, because he’s suppose to be the favourite to succeed Starmer for No 10.

Of course, if they didn’t want that they wouldn’t call their software nod ebb.