Lemmy is linked on their site too

https://proton.me/community

Yeah and people like us are the most likely to recommend alternatives to Gmail to regular users who likely don’t go out of their way searching for other options.

It is listed in their community page which adds to the confusion.

https://proton.me/community

I checked since I wondered if there was some other place they are active on other than reddit and Twitter, and if they had their own forum.

Proton marketing itself on privacy while recently calling out the danger of tech oligarchs makes their decision to leave Mastodon and keep using Twitter very confusing. Lot of mixed signals.

Yeah and their battery tech is just far beyond other countries. Was the main driver in convincing me to sell off Tesla and move to BYD couple months ago.

I moved out of Tesla to BYD stocks couple months ago just based on the output and price of their cars and feeling that tariffs aren’t going to keep them out forever. Looking good so far.

Even huge companies like Google have encountered roadblocks trying to expand broadband services because of regulations.

PC launchers though is one that can be started even by you on Windows or Linux with the difficulty being getting customers as opposed to whether you are even allowed to make a launcher in the first place.

Companies still fear piracy so DRM isn’t going anywhere, and companies are still reluctant to release games on PC.

Hate of monopolies is one I have when a company uses their position to make products worse than it was before like Sony and Nintendo moving to charging for multiplayer. And it’s a monopoly on a platform they don’t control. There’s no regulatory body preventing launchers from popping up like broadband expansion being blocked by government lobbying like traditional monopolies.

When steam shifts in bad direction I’ll complain too. For now I haven’t found reason to complain about Steam. I like the product Steam offers simple as that. I don’t care about the personalities of the CEO or how much money it makes. It’s not some checkmark of X is Y so must hate.

But people here don’t really care that much about celebrities being here and maybe not even their username being unique. Could probably be anon1, anon2, etc and it wouldn’t matter that much, since real identity is probably not a draw for them. Focus on regular people wanting the userbase to want to use fediverse rather than celebrities which is an off-putting first impression and point of sale for lot of people here.

You need to pivot is what I’m saying to achieve what you want.

I’m not here for celebrities and they will always flock to centralized platforms anyways, since they are all about the views.

Yeah I thought it would be like that awesome trailer back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSLHcAyy90

Sailing is so much better than managing when to stop and continue payment for the dozens of streaming services.

I wish there would be more Edgerunners type releases where it’s a companion piece rather than a direct adaptation which allows for way more creative freedom and less burden of being compared.

I enjoyed memes back in the forum days because they weren’t frequent with it being more discussion base, so when they showed up it’d have a tendency to actually be funny. But, move towards generating meme content quickly diluted the experience of memes with forcing of memes.

Would this make it possibile for people to make Enderal type mods for GTA 5? Would be nice to see modders delivering the story DLCs if Rockstar refuses to.

I doubt it with the attention lot of people want and lot of parasocial attachments people have to celebrities big and small.

Smarttubenext for TV. Newpipe or Firefox with Ublock on Android. Safari with Adblocker on iOS.

I didn’t like a company going out of its way to pay games to not release on other platforms. That’s pretty much it, so I don’t give them money.

Aren’t land disputes how lot of decades long conflicts get started? Feel like the situation can really result in absolute carnage despite the best of intentions.

I see no problem either. I want more money is a very refreshing reason.

But yes I have actually waited years waiting for a game to go from $12 to $10 haha. Partly due to having huge back logs of gameds in my library and a long wishlist, so I got to keep buying in check some how. Otherwise my back log of unplayed games would get out of control even more.