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#indiedevs

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@FandaSin nodds in agreeement

I also think that this is kinda #MissedOpportunity for #IndieDevs and #SmallDevelopers: infosec.space/@kkarhan/1148626

I'm not even entertaining the fantasy that this is gonna be done in the Form of some #FLOSS because obviously rapid #API changes at random are far more expensive to deal with than say old, quite static protocols where the minimalist implementation of #IRC or #XMPP has been done dozens of times and where specs detail anything extra and where things like #OMEMO take years to get #downstream'd...

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Like: There's not much of a technical reason something similar to @zulip@fosstodon.org 's #TUI - [based client](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal) could exit. - Obviously #proprietary platforms - (just like #Shitter even before #ApartheidEmeraldBoy took over and speedrun it into becoming a #NaziBar) - will try to [passive-aggressively stifle](https://social.linux.pizza/@FandaSin/114862630037724045) such #clients, but still... If people can build #bots for shite [like](https://www.askpython.com/python/examples/python-discord-bot) #discord, #Telegram, etc. then why not make an actually *good client* ???
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Similarly, #consumers cut back on "non-essential spending" as well, as #Greedflation & #Shrinkflation bleeds them dry.

Or to put in the words of #GabeNewell: "Piracy is always a service problem!"

  • And given how #Valve turned their #OnlineDRM aka. #Steam into something that #IndieDevs get bullied into publishing on, there's certainly some weight to it, as even #EpicGames struggles to get even a tiny market share from Valve's de-facto #monopoly despite burning through millions if not billions of money to give away #games (after all they still need to pay the licensees/publishers/creators of the games they give away)...

Add to that the obnoxiousness of #AlwaysOnlineDRM that makes modern Games literally unplayable when the #Publishers decide to kill the infrastructure needed for it.

  • Steam at least does have contingencies in place to actually remove it's #DRM and allow users to get a #DRMfree copy of their games if they were to close shop but that's not the norm in the industry. Otherwise #StopKillingGames would not be necessary as a petition.
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