Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it’s an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

  • @[email protected]
    -116•1 month ago

    And then we have the communists making Lemmy. Is there any moderate developers lol. Valve is the only big company I can think of that isn’t annoying. All the faceless Linux devs are good too

    • MentalEdge
      99•1 month ago

      Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

      Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

      Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

      Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

      • @[email protected]
        9•1 month ago

        I love Steam, but thinking about switching to gog over this. Anybody have any ideas how we can let valve know this isn’t okay?

        • UlrichEnglish
          7•1 month ago

          I mean I always use GoG, if given the option. But there’s almost always no GoG option. Publishers want some form of DRM.

        • @[email protected]
          4•1 month ago

          I did this years ago and have like 500 games on GOG. Ended up going back to Steam due to features that gog just doesn’t have. Sigh.

          • @[email protected]
            1•29 days ago

            I have a feeling I would feel the same. Its nice having everything in one place. What was missing for you?

            • @[email protected]
              1•29 days ago

              All the social features, the workshop, easy browsing, and guides just off the top of my head. GOG is still good for those really retro 90s and early 2000s games though

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        I understand your frustration but I’m not casting some wide net here. I’m simply talking about political ideologies being in your face.

    • @[email protected]
      49•1 month ago

      If it’s between fascism and communism, the answer is pretty fucking simple imo. Only one of those ideologies considers all people to be equal.

      And no, I am not a communist, and I would not choose communism unless it was the only alternative to fascism.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 month ago

        Totally understand what you’re saying. Obviously I am on Lemmy. Just wish we didn’t have ideologies in our face all the time

      • @FlexibleToast
        30•1 month ago

        I have a bigger fear of what happens to Linux when Torvalds retires. He took a break a while back, and it was an absolute shit show of a power struggle.

    • Rhaedas
      9•1 month ago

      Give some credit. Even if they aren’t politically aligned with your, they did make Lemmy open source for others to run with.