It is currently called the United States of America
Is it even a competition?
Afaik, lemmy doesn’t compete. It just exists, and makes no effort as an entity to expand.
I’m not even sure if there are individual instances that do anything to seek out users, much less try to take them from other places.
I just bought a domain name yesterday with plans to create an instance for my local county. My killer idea is to have a comminity in the instsnce called “the good old days” where older folks can post their stories. I noticed that is a popular thing on facebook. The instance will not be federated as I don’t want anything but content which is relavent to the county. It should be somewhat self regulating given the topic limitations. I probably won’t even mention federation unless someone else wants to make an instance specific to a certain town or something. Just a way to filter out all the noise on facebook where people can see all tge different news outlets and events from accross the county without being filtered by fb et al.
I kinda wish they did so Reddit diasppears
There is no “they” really - it’s up to us as users to promote it.
With “they”, I meant the owners/mantainers, specifically. Without some promotion from their part, there aren’t so much users to promote it further.
It’s crazy to me how there’s percentage of gamers who think this guy is THEIR billionaire, and this is THEIR game corporation, and it somehow makes it different or more ethical than all the other billionaires and corporations.
In a world where enshitification is the norm, the bar is so low that keeping a product with good quality is enough to be deified by some. But surely those gamers that worship Gabe just do it for the memes right? (Don’t answer)
Valve being privately owned rather than having external shareholders probably helps them go for something sustainable rather than pushing for growth at all costs.
It’s simply because the product is far superior to all other solutions on the market.
Not due to tricks, or marketing, or any weird strategies, but by simply solving the distribution problem for both the developers and consumers.
Yes all billionaires need to give up their wealth or literally be eaten, and all capitalism is inherently evil, but if we were to rank evil from least to most as especially liberals do in all other circumstances, then gaben and steam are on the least evil side of the spectrum.
Parasocial relationships get fucky
The only brand loyalty I have is that their shit just works
As soon as the fediverse becomes an actual threat, the ban hammer is going to come down on anonymous social media
I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t happened yet
It’s still pretty niche as of now
I’m not sure but it’s been working wonders for desktop Linux for the technically inclined.
Weeeeell, as someone who moved from windows to Mint a few weeks back, Steam and proton have had a big hand in that, so I wouldn’t say it’s a good example of “doing nothing”.
Edit: granted, Microsoft constantly shooting their own feet doesn’t help, but Steam broke the cage by providing what was missing.
Not to downplay what Valve and all of the countless Linux contributers are doing and have accomplished, but I wouldn’t be on Linux if Windows hasn’t gone to shit.
I was basically a 30 year long Windows fanboy. It got so bad that it drove me away. And now I’m a Linux fanboy.
And for Valve.
“Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake."
—Napoleon Bonaparte
The side fucking up is called “the art of the deal”
Good name for a book.
They could avoid taxes on the proceeds with the deal of the art.
Stability, reliability, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
Some companies have a need to reinvent them every 6 months to justify some middle Manager’s existence so they can pad their resume for the next overpaid job position.
This Is what it looks like when you don’t have that problem
Accurate. There’s significant overlap between Fediverse managers, developers, and users. Everyone’s goals for the platform are always closely aligned.
This actually just describes the main problem in almost every industry these days. Companies are so large and have so many people running them that at each rung of the ladder, priorities are completely different since it’s impossible for someone in middle management to have any clue what’s going on in manufacturing, or vice versa.
Then all of them get overshadowed equally by the monetary priorities of the CEO.
And if they gain a monopoly, they’re able to separate their priorities from those of their users. That’s when the enshitification begins.
Doing it the Valve way.
Wu Wei
Often in the daodejing also called wei wu wei: “acting without action” or “doing without doing”
Truly: this is The Way
The only winning move is not to play.
Anti-Skibidity fr fr no cap
Pulling a Steven Bradbury
“Neutral jing”.
