Comment on "The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners

HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The “Buy them out and monetize their shit”-phase

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  • PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We should have normalized sponsoring community projects we like, maybe?

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    • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like, as in donating? Man, should we ever

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah yes, let’s pump more money into everything. That will surely make things better.

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m just amazed at the entitlement of people about this, or number of people treating this as some sort of betrayal because he sold out and didn’t want to continue free solo work on it.

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  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I've built a game mod that now has a couple thousand users, it's true about the entitlement. I'm grateful to those users who expressed their support and glee, but so many -- admittedly well-meaning! -- people come in asking for basic assistance that don't read the FAQ. And then there's the handful of people who really believe you're there solely to serve them.

    Can't even imagine single handedly supporting a site the size of SteamDB.

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• arules@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Threadiverse would be the first to cite you Pareto distribution’s without proposing ways to inverse it. Damn leeches!

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