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Dr. Quadragon ❌

I got slapped with a complaint from someone from vt.social, and I quote:

> Spam tagging people in an activism message.

To which I have to ask: Are you f*king kidding? You *must* be f*king kidding.

We still don't have groups for such kinds of things, so we need to megaphone this the best we can. It's in our own best interest as gamers and customers.

We need to sue this practice out of existence, or it's game over for the industry. The IT industry, not just software or game industry.

They already have inroads to "Hardware as a service". We need to stop this NOW.

#StopGaaS

19 January at 14:32 | Open on mastodon.ml
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loonycyborg
@drq
I'm kinda ambivalent about this too. This whole idea of "owning" games is more from proprietary software universe. I would prefer to go opensource instead. No ownership there too and there definitely exist services, but you can self-host too.
19 January at 20:58 | Open on fediverse.wesnoth.org
Seasons of Jason

@drq @drq You just keep doing exactly what you're doing. I had no idea this had happened, and I've been getting increasingly rankled about how tough game preservation is becoming. This takes it to disturbing new levels.

20 January at 16:58 | Open on layer8.space
Frost「:therian:｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」

@drq I mean, if you're randomly tagging people...

like, I have no context, but if you ARE doing that, "but this is important!!!" does not justify it, that's what boosts and hashtags are for.

3 April at 0:26 | Open on chitter.xyz
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@frost Nobody will boost it if nobody sees it in the first place.

3 April at 0:27 | Open on mastodon.ml
Frost「:therian:｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」

@drq That's what the local timeline is for!

Please don't do the fedi equivalent of activism spam texts, it's not cool.

3 April at 0:28 | Open on chitter.xyz
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@frost This is not actionable for my local timeline (because of locality of its members), but it probably is for yours, especially if you live in general Europe, France, Australia or Brazil. Neither I nor most of the people on my server, live in those places. And hashtags simply don't work all that great between instances. And there's no "algorithm" to show your message to people. Discoverability on Fedi sucks, part because a lot of stuff is not implemented as yet, part because of architectural reasons, so... as far as "putting things out there" goes - you're on your own, pretty much.

And I was not "randomly" tagging people, I was tagging people I know who might be interested in the cause and who have at least some sort of publicity.

Please don't throw accusations without knowing the full context, it's not cool.

@frost This is not actionable for my local timeline (because of locality of its members), but it probably is for yours, especially if you live in general Europe, France, Australia or Brazil. Neither I nor most of the people on my server, live in those places. And hashtags simply don't work all that great between instances. And there's no "algorithm" to show your message to people. Discoverability on Fedi sucks, part because a lot of stuff is not implemented as yet, part because of architectural reasons,...

3 April at 0:32 | Open on mastodon.ml
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