What the fuck @[email protected] ? You are listening to people who don’t represent the majority of users. Fuck you.

Sorry, let me change the title. I don’t use the big tech stuff, so not sure what to compare it to exactly.

It’s the video part of instagram

I just hope they don’t all go to “lemmy.world” or some huge instance. Regardless, even the @eucommission is understanding the value of the fediverse and has its own mastodon instance. The German government is also going more opensource, the Dutch government wants to have an alternative to GitHub that might join the fediverse, France has the DINUM which seems to want to aggressively leave US big tech behind.

One big problem I see with the EU finally noticing opensource is that they are new to the game and will take lobbying money. Solutions like BlueSky might easily lead them astray, but I seriously hope they will see “developed by USAians” and go “fuck that, we want Mastodon that’s spearheaded by a German non-profit”.

It’s very imaginable that more duds like BlueSky will pop up to distract from the fediverse and try to grab a piece of the monetary and attention pie the EU has.

We need to convince more of them to sync / mirror their content on peertube.

“Doing something actually does nothing, just don’t do anything”

If you want to religiously be cucked by all of big tech and their USAian buddies, go ahead. Just don’t try and convince me to take the dick because you like it. Keep that sodomy to yourself.

P.S if you think Steam is the only way to get “ethically” get games, you’re even a bigger cuck than I thought.

You’re not allowed to do that. Women are a protected class that cannot be made fun of. Men on the other hand…

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But crossposting requires an account on the target instance, doesn’t it? I can’t crosspost on my peertube instance to a community in lemmy/piefed/mastodon/fedia can I?

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Well, I’m not buying Steam games anymore, so I’m doing my part 🤷

All those stores just sell the game on steam, so we’re back to steam being the cheapest. This is why the lawsuit exists.

I looked at the examples you gave and in all of them, Steam has the lowest price . I added an example of Doom Eternal

Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn’t the goal here. If it were, I don’t even know how they would approach it, because from what I can tell, Valve owns the market so much because it simply is good.

But yeah, Valve going bad would be a catastrophe for gaming.

Could you share an example of a deal that is less than on Steam? I couldn’t find one.

No need to put monopoly in quotes. Owning 85% of the market is a monopoly. Do you want them to reach 100% for you to go “yep, now it’s a monopoly, now we should do something”?

A monopoly doesn’t need monopolistic behaviour to be a monopoly. The monopolistic behaviour Steam has is what’s being targeted. If Steam were impeding competition in other ways, those would have to be dealt with too.

Just because you have a favourite friend, doesn’t mean they can’t do wrong.

Infect everybody in the manosphere and watch them deal with it.

People in the comments are vehemently supporting a monopolist because the monopolist is currently good. No wonder people are so easy to control. If you keep them distracted for long enough, you can take everything they own and they’ll only notice once the lights go off and the chair stolen from underneath their fat asses.

We deserve Trump and every single politician we get because we’re such a bunch of idiots.

Maybe if you read the goddamn article you’d know of one?

The foundation claims that Valve holds a dominant position in the market, estimated at around 85%, and is breaching competition law through so-called Most-Favoured Nation clauses. According to the complaint, these terms prevent developers from selling games more cheaply on rival platforms like the Epic Games Store than on Steam. This, they argue, keeps prices across the PC gaming market artificially elevated.

Arsenal fans are gooners. Very interesting term.