You can create your own server and disable signups whenever you want.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.

I just realized there’s no legal way to earn money without getting fucked or fucking others over.

It would be nice if they did that, or something similar involving Linux on phones.

I don’t think they have anywhere near the resources, unfortunately.

Right. It can and has been done before while still turning a profit. People can, did, and still do use self-hosting as a way to play things for free. It has never been the reason for why a game failed financially, though. Most people just don’t have the knowledge or the interest to go through the extra steps required to play for free. A lot of them buy things because they genuinely wanted to support the developers.

The abuse is the point. The people in charge spend every day figuring out more ways to take power away from people and give it to the corporation. It’s an art and a science at this point.

Money and control. There is no technical reason, and in fact it would be easier to just let people host their own servers.

Allowing self-hosting used to be the norm for online games. Businesses realized a long time ago that gamers stopped having standards and would accept any abuse to not be left out of the hype.

Anyone who dissects superheroes like that seems like an insufferable loser. I would just ignore them and move on.

My concern would be federation. I don’t think the fediverse is set up so you can run the same service on the clearnet and dark net.

Anything, anything but pass the cost onto the people who can actually afford it: the ruling class.

I don’t ever have breakage due to systemd.

Hopefully this will start normalizing wearing masks in public.

Take from the rich, give to the poor.

The rich have been taking from the poor since forever.

Capitalism

Everything isn’t free, even in socialist and communist societies. You might not have to work to survive, but your quality of life will be directed tied to how much wealth you have. If you want more wealth, you’ll probably have to get to work.

I don’t think searching for information has changed all that much with the advent of AI. SEO has been shitting up webpages for much longer than AI Has been on the scene.

It’s always the same story. Once something starts making too much money, it inevitably goes to shit because of scumbags, scammers, and suckers.

Really?

Only if you’re a moron.

I think it’s because he’s an idiot on auto-pilot.

Morons always need to do more than is necessary because they have no idea what they’re doing.

The french?

Why are you censoring the e?

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Everybody is a sellout piece of shit.