If demos hurt sales, that means that game devs depend on gamers buying games they don't actually end up liking right? I understand making games has become pricier and pricier, but if the whole business model is dependent on "We want to trick people into getting stuff they don't want", then we have a problem.
Different instances have different ideologies. You can get a user on "everything-conservative" which blocks half if the federation, or you can get into a free for all instance which allows all. Big generic instances like lemmy.world do have a big problem on their hands, they have to make the bubble the common denominator of all users, which is hard to know.
They do stuff like that sometimes, like twitter is doing now, by putting a woman CEO right after Elon set everything on fire, so that twitter vocal minority can blame her and say that Elon was doing everything better. It's what they call the Glass Cliff. Something similar might be happening here, without the anti-feminist part.
I've been trying to post content on all niche subreddits I used to lurk in. I basically get the non-reddit links and useful resources and start sharing them here.
Because a company has control behind it, not the people
At this point I think he's immolating himself on purpose, and after the api changes are done a new saviour CEO will come, who won't reverse anything, but with a clean record.
I'm from Argentina and I can not buy stuff like "crisco", I need specific oils that I can buy in any brand, like sunflower seed oil, soybean oil, etc.
This is how it looks currently:
I wonder how will Google's algorithm treat lemmy in the future. Maybe the uncontrolled/federated nature of it will make google ignore it.
I can already find some stuff on lemmy if I search for it. It will take time for everything to be indexed but I think it will work ok eventually.
I think the problem is that some random lemmy mod won't want to deal with DMCA takedowns and threats, so they will probably enforce it down, which is understandable.
The real question is if lemmy.world allow praise of the ccp, because apparently "no tankie" is an unspoken rule.
I'd much rather keep seeing their content than not. The number 1 reason reddit is useful to me is because of the extremely specific and human information there is. I'd rather be able to look for stuff in one site even if part of it is read-only.
You want to know if pc component A and B work together? Some random person on reddit will have tried it. The normal google results quickly go into auto-generated stuff like the "versus" pages that just compare specs and are completely useless.
I think it might be useful to have a clearer UI about what is happening. So every user that sees content there and wants to participate can go and try to create a user on beehaw. I imagine at some point everything will settle down and federation will be back.
If people get enough from a free demo maybe it's time to make shorter cheaper games, and start churning out 2 hour playtrough 15usd games, but with high quality graphics/acting/voices/etc. Or just abolish capitalism and make fun games no matter if they sell or not 😂