You think they don’t add anti-cheats to singleplayer/co-op?

If they make the phones smaller they’ll have to make the ads smaller too. Can’t have that.

The heck is “instant opt-out”? As opposed to what? Not being able to close the ad unless you buy the product?

He won’t die before releasing Half Life 3, which means he’s immortal.

There are arms dealers on both sides. Anti-adblockers also require development, and I doubt anyone does that for free.

They are won by arms dealers.

Why don’t they just use diamond, the hardest metal?

What does ceding control even mean? Mastodon, just like Lemmy, is federated - each instance has its own governance. It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

He can cede control of the GitHub repository, I guess, but:

1. That’s giving the controls to the contributors, not the users.
2. The article does not even hint at the existence of source code, and the announcement itself doesn’t talk about changes in that aspect either, so I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.

I think the whole “monopoly bad” notion is a bit off. You start opposing monopolies, but then people realized that duopolies are also bad, and next thing you know we talk about triopolies and centiopolies and whatnot.

So I think the actual number is not the thing that matters, and instead the thing we should be worrying about is cartels.

The defining feature of a cartel is the ruthless action it takes to kill competition. The monopolies everyone are so mad about are cartels of single companies, but the bad thing about them is their cartellic behavior - not the fact they are along in the market.

Steam is not a cartel.