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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 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
How
It would probably be something like: “any social media site made available to US users must verify user identities and legal name and age and comply with US agencies’ requests for user information. Violators will be subject to penalty, including but not limited to economic sanction and imprisonment”
Yes, there would be ways around it and yes, there would be nations who would not enforce it, but there being legal barriers to operating an instance would basically kill its adoption for normal users. I’m really tired of people saying ‘you can just get a vpn’ as if most people would go to any length at all to share memes with friends. The fediverse is already too complicated for most people to adopt before having to circumvent region blocks.
Australia is already trying something like this, under the guise of protecting kids. Under 16 year olds are banned from social media starting in December, which is effectively the same as forcing identity verification. Don’t know if Lemmy will be affected or not. But I’ll ditch this account over giving my ID to “random dude running an instance”.
UK occasionally talks about this kind of thing too. Recently had something come in that caused some web forums to shut down as it was unenforceable for a small forum but the big companies will either comply, pretend to comply or pay/ignore the fines.
I feel like that would probably Streisand effect
Which would increase their effort to chase it down and make regular people avoid it.
Not that it would deter you, but the network would essentially stop growing and no longer be a real competitor
Couldn’t have social media without Americans.
Actually wait yes can we apply this to Lemmy?
Ordinarily I would be sensitive to accusations of america-centrism, but the US has a tendency of bullying their allies into following their regulatory measures so I don’t think this is just a US problem.
I guess we will see, maybe.
wasn’t there a thing about almost all instances being hosted on Hetzner?
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 China method
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.
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”.
