Spy sappin mah sentry!
It is currently called the United States of America
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)
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.
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.
No, if there’s too hard of a push to get users then lemmy earns itself a bigger gun behind the crosshairs that are already aimed it (by platforms like Reddit).
If we have any hope of growing Lemmy into what it can eventually be, we need the growth to be gradual. As painstaking and aggravating as that might be.
Pulling a Steven Bradbury
