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  • There’s a lot more to what destroyed hanging out in the pub than scheduling

    For sure but even if you switch out computer games to board games, that is still not the same. People moved, a lot of games need space and hauling the box, etc

    In school we used to have breaks, we were hanging out just because of that. Now most often we don’t even work together anymore. Unless one has a job that forces them to come to the office or is one of that ~1% of the workforce that prefers to, and can have a chat at the water stand, I think for many people the reality is that if not for online games, they wouldn’t hang out with anyone anymore


  • You know where there term “AAA” comes from, right?

    Games used to be a niche - made by gamers for gamers. Now it’s gotten more mainstream so we have more industry around it. Good games aren’t gone, just don’t get advertised, same as everything else that is worthwhile

    As for social aspects of the games, I don’t agree with your take. We don’t have time to be hanging out in pubs every weekend anymore. Hopping in VC to do some “base building” requires less scheduling









  • Open source, federated platforms do not:

    • call back ads companies to get your ad id/cookie, so also don’t:
      • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing the articles and ads in those articles
      • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing which products in stores
      • check with ads companies which “competition” you switched to and with what content you interacted there
      • have info on how your demographics’ profile (things you interact with) connect with the content you watch
        • so also, they don’t sell this data back to ads companies
    • process which content you interact with in order to make you stay on the platform longer or trigger you to write angry comments so you create content for others
    • process at what local times you view content in order to process how to target your demographics
    • process what you chose to not interact at all (only view, no vote)

    I’m afraid I could go on but I think you get my point

    Someone could be scraping how you vote, what you write, how you write, at what times you write, etc. But for outside scraper there is no way to make sure (from that info) which ads you’ve seen on article sites and what things you bought or browsed. So yes, open-source, federated, socially-run platforms are better for your privacy