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@lemmy.worldWhy not? kbin literally has an "activity" button that shows everyone who downvotes, it's public info. Makes blocking morons a breeze because I can say something like "trans people are cool" and then get rid of everyone who gets angry about it.
If you're scared of people knowing what you downvote, you might need to change your downvote habits.
I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.
If you compare it to now, we either get no movie tie-ins at all or at most some DLC cosmetics to celebrate it. The fact that there were winners at all kinda makes it the golden age by default.
Peter Jackson's King Kong and Spider-Man 2, my beloved.
If it doesn't work out, I want to mention that an Xbox Series S is a pretty damn good budget emulation machine. $20 gets you developer access, through which you can install Retroarch (for most consoles before the 360) and Xenia (for 360 titles). It also has the benefit of officially having several Xbox and Xbox 360 titles on the store, many of which are enhanced for the newer hardware, but Xenia can handle delisted or licensed titles.
Unfortunately, no PS3 emulation on there though.
I imagine that after the Activision ordeal, there's no shot the legislative bodies in charge will allow them to keep picking up studios like a grocery list.
Phil Spencer has said on multiple occasions that they want a Japanese developer though, so I certainly expect them to keep trying for one. I imagine they'd really like to get Square Enix to end the stranglehold Sony has over Final Fantasy and similar, or get From Software for that sweet brand name Dark Souls, but good luck justifying either one to an already pissed-off CMA or FTC.
Maybe if Valve could work out shipping them to other regions officially we'd see more growth. I still see people lamenting that they can't buy a Deck without going to some sketchy third-party and overpaying.
Maybe the longtime users, but anyone who's joined in the last month has been waiting for this mass migration to liven up the place. I think we'd all trade some temporary slowness for a bulk of new users, I saw a post earlier saying lemmy.world has grown 40% in the first 12 hours after reddit killed third-party apps.
Hell, I was on kbin.social when the blackout started, and that site went pretty much unusable.
Download an app or use a userstyle on desktop?
I don't even remember what lemmy.world looks like, I literally made an account and then logged into Liftoff.
No, federation means we all see the same content regardless of which site we sign up on with the exception of sites that yours may block.
But be wary that lemmy.ml is a tankie instance and the ".ml" stands for Marxism-Leninism. I generally avoid lemmy.ml communities so I don't get banned for saying "the uyghur genocide is a real thing" or anything.
This was exactly my thought. Probably no better game than Halo Wars, just unfortunately no Halo Wars 2 because it's still not on Steam.