I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server

Huh, I didn’t know that, maybe that’s only with the docker image? If not, that’s bad news waiting to happen, I’m afraid :/

Rocket.chat would be my first recommendation, tho it looks more corporate aimed. It also claims to support Matrix federation.

You could also give Jami a try, it’s p2p so it doesn’t need servers.

It’s voice chat features are lacking, it has no video chat yet

What’s the size difference when you remove the porn stuff from the torrent?

“the page” is Docker’s application window

Off the top of my head, I can immediately think of “civitt” as a better alternative - civilians instead of corpo overlords. Personitt. Hell, even “netizen” or some variation of that would be better. Zennet?

So, if I’m on programming.dev and you’re the owner/manager of lemmy.world, I can post on lemmy.world but you can’t block me at all, is that right?

No sane person wants to run anything on the internet where they can’t delete or block comments/users/other instances

it can scale infinitely because there are no historical ledger like a blockchain or hub, it’s like bittorrent, if a community no longer has any seeds, it stops existing.

Sounds like freenet, though the obvious downside of freenet is that you have to have it running as a program before you access its sites.

Indeed. <absurdly long wall of expository text>, that’s why you must press on with the mission!

Every single person with a working brain has been complaining about making cars more and more “connected” and reliant on software - it makes the cars LESS safe and less repairable. Heater or AC won’t work? Sorry, you gotta subscribe to unlock that. Any customer who looks at that and says “That makes sense, the company can’t give that out for free” is a fucking idiot who deserves to be scammed out of their money

Meh, not gonna happen and we all know that

Clearly what the world needs, more fucking spam

Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could “write a book”

Please do

He didn’t even know that he owned the rights because this was just a package with his inheritance … we have a lot of stories like that.

Wow, no wonder the dude wasn’t aware. “Oh, just a box with papers. Meh”

stories like developers whose physical documentation of IP ownership was torched in a fire

It’s always interesting to know which games’ rights might seem “completely lost”, just so we can 🏴‍☠️ in peace. Say, wasn’t this strategy something GOG did originally? Just sell and see if the current rights-holder shows up?

You’d be surprised. There are also people who will go into debt just to watch some of those games

For the opening match, you get to watch the opening ceremony as well, so there’s that

Also happens with some apps on fdroid. “Update available” - click to see, nothing there

Sounds like Roblox

Also, Gearbox only got involved like last year

Having an account won’t solve the problem with A, since spam accounts are a problem even in the fediverse

One of the polygon commenters had it right: Valve should put the game at 30% discount for a week, where said 30% is their cut, so every sale in that meantime goes straight to the devs