What do all you guys use these setups for?

You’re welcome m8, have a nice day

You’re misunderstanding me again. Please try reading what I said again.

I’m not suggesting allowlist federation, though that is another tactic that could be used. I’m just saying that a spammer on the fediverse would be quickly defederated and would have to buy a new domain to keep spamming, which would probably be too expensive to justify.

No, my point is that if spammers were to spam on the fediverse, they’d need to buy new domains constantly as their previous domains are defederated, I’m not talking about email.

Nono, I’m saying it costs to spam because spammers have to keep buying new domains as their previous domains get blocked or defederated.

Hmm I feel like some pooling of effort with spam detection built into the software (lemmy for instance) could help spread the effort of spam fighting to other, smaller instances and not just centralised to the big ones.

But it’s difficult to say what will happen I guess. We need to just keep being vigilant when it comes to stopping spam while keeping in mind our shared goal of a decentralised social Internet.

Replying to your edit:

it doesn’t solve spammers abusing good instances

This is an instance moderation problem. If you’re letting spammers in, you need to use a better application process or something similar to that. A big problem with email spam is that most email services allow anyone to sign up for free without any checks.

Ultimately defederating bad actors and defederating “good” actors who fail to moderate their own users is necessary.

I’m not sure what you mean with that or how it relates to what I said, could you elaborate?

Is it though? Don’t email spammers just spoof the domain or send without a domain? I’m not entirely sure if that’s different from how the fediverse works. I’m not too knowledgeable about this topic.

Defederating bad actors/spammers should in theory be good enough? Domains aren’t free and I don’t think it’s worth it for them to buy a new domain to just be able to spam for a short time again.

Super cool. Would AGPL fix the issues with the loop holes they used?

Agreed, I would definitely not refer to the first one as self hosting without qualifying further.

There’s a setting under Power/Battery on my phone to allow an app to run in the background, which makes it so it doesn’t get stopped. @mariah@feddit.rocks maybe that would help you?

According to Steam’s own survey, Linux is still less than 2% of the user base and it doesn’t look like it’s changing much. I don’t know how it has looked historically though but probably not too much different.

Realistically speaking, it’s only a small percentage of people who bought the Steam Deck, and they probably already had a gaming PC, which means they probably had a Windows PC.

So unfortunately, I don’t think Linux gaming is anywhere close.

Convincing analysis. I guess the question is, if we assume this is the case, will the industry ever heal?

Yes that is true - although many games on Steam can play offline so because I download the game, I own it in that fashion. They can’t take that away.

But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.

rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games

Any idea why there is this discrepancy between TV and games?

Why is licensing so easy with games though? It really seems like there’s this arbitrary difference in how the video games and streaming industries work.

What would it take to get a “Steam but TV/movies instead of games”? I feel like if I could see reviews of movies and I could buy them and download them and have them forever and buy them on sale and all that good stuff, it wouldn’t be so bad.

How come none of the streaming services have gone for this model? Steam is swimming in money, surely this method could work?

Can it sync with Google Photos so you could use both?