I love this in principle.
I just wish Mastodon instances were viewable without JavaScript. Opening the door to many types of browser exploit and fingerprinting shouldn’t be necessary just for reading.
Probably to avoid linking to kid diddler instances.
Steam loves to minimize moderation so you’re probably correct
I mean have you seen gamers?
Given that half the games are anime waifu sims these days, I can only imagine what horrors you’d unleash letting people link to their profiles on anime waifu mastodon instances.
Actually no, I don’t have to imagine it since I’ve seen the horrors with my own eyes.
Having gone to Tokyo’s Akihabara and gone to the depths of anime waifu hell…
They should use fediseer to accept the top 100 most reputable mastodons
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I don’t think their devs are having a hard time figuring out how to support different instance names…
I doubt that’s the case since you can freely link to external sites elsewhere?
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I think you would love 4chan.
I said cultural clashes, not pedo and MAGA circlejerks.
Wait, do you not realize what an echo chamber is…?
Because that’s exactly what I don’t want in my Twitter-like experience.
I want to watch the opposing groups of internet brained waterheads, who view posting as combat, flail, whine, and throw hissy fits at each other, while on the same platform.
The limitations are annoying but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
Absolutely! It’s representation!
That is so bad. They clearly don’t understand the appeal of decentralized systems…
At the same time people on here are defending the centralization of PC gaming on Steam so even fediverse users don’t understand decentralization
How do you imagine decentralized gaming? Every game comes with it’s own launcher?
My fantasy is that PC games become similar to roms, where it’s a single file. Maybe encoded is the system specs, OS, etc.
Then the “emulator” just works.
Of course, no financial incentives and a lot of work just to exist. Not to mention, it’ll be impossible to do for modern games. But maybe every game that’s older than 10 years old gets this treatment.
Also I’m not a OS engineer and maybe this is what Proton is doing with Linux.
Then pure decentralized gaming on any OS - computer, browser, raspberry pi, “smart Fridge”, whatever has the specs. And the game just works.
I think will be something more like gog or itch io
What makes either of those decentralized?
The instance I’m on isn’t federated with every other instance. Why would you expect steam to effectively federate with every instance?
What? I’m not following. Steam isn’t federating with anyone. This is about having a link to an external site. Nothing more. Has nothing to do with federation directly.