Previously me (instance ded):
@Auster
I don’t listen to audiobooks to know any good titles, but sites that sell book bundles also usually have audiobook bundles, so maybe they’re a good starting point for finding titles?
Also, if you use Spotify, I can presume you’re at least not overly against DRM, so maybe you’d be interested in Storytel? Came across it a while back and people seemed to talk well of it, apparently being a subscription-based streaming, but didn’t look for further info on it as I saw it is “DRM’d”.
Winning by being ostracized sounds strange.
Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don’t care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don’t award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.
FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I’d suggest supporting financially the creators.
Like others said in other responses, Peertube may be a good call. Iirc, there’s also a reels-type of federated platforms akin to TikTok too, but I can’t remember the name.
I guess it’s safe to assume, then, that you are indeed a forum troll, going by your insistence on deviating the topic towards bickering and how you behave in the other comments. Thanks for confirming and have a good day/night, depending on where you are. =)
Given this has nothing to do with what I said, it sounds like an inversion to try to bait me into losing my cool, a strategy I often saw in trolls in other forums in years past. Still giving the benefit of doubt, while each person has his/her own form of taking and sharing information, I would still suggest considering how what you say could be taken as baiting or other strategies employed by trolls.
I’d suggest to avoid using some many adjectives in so little sentences. Some may take it as a sign that you could be a forum troll trying to cause a fuss for fun, and thus be more defensive around you. And if any here in the comments are “triggered” indeed, they still seem pretty tame in their responses.
Separating the title from the body of the post as I don’t think they’re directly related:
It would not sound surprising for me if staffers spied on competition to know how they can deal with competition, copy tactics, etc.
Regarding the meme itself, at least imo, having seen cases of what did seem like mass downvotings, the vote/downvote ratio doesn’t seem that big.
Besides, two more things. First, some platforms seem to be more prone to mob mentality than others, so if you feel like you’re targetted, maybe pay attention to where people are coming from. Second, each platform has their own cultures, so a post more negatived than the usual may simply be a termometer of a given platform’s culture.
A given AI has an interpretation of the source materials, not the raw contents to offer. If this AI’s interpretation is faulty, or if another, previously overlooked interpretation could be made, it can’t be made if the sources are gone and no back ups were made. Also, AI could be tinkered to give biased replies. And also if preserving a given knowledge is entrusted to AI, what to do if it is unplugged?
And unrelated to the AI point, but Reddit had plenty of useful stuff, probably due to being the biggest of its type of social media for a long while. But also it would then suffer from barely any competition, turning it further and further into the decaying platform it now is.
So I stick to my point, I hope it doesn’t fall too quickly - useful stuff can still be backed up. And if an user finds something yet to be backed up, I insist he/she does it, be it with Internet Archive, Archive.Today, and/or any others he/she may use.
Though I understand the feeling, I think that, if it must die, that it happens slowly, so people can have plenty of time to back up and/or mirror the useful stuff from there.
It may be a good idea to launch the game through the terminal for troubleshooting when it doesn’t launch through the UI. More often than not on Linux, the terminal carries very useful info, of which often you can find solutions online once you spot a suspicious line. And for Steam games specifically, to not change the test environment too much, the command for starting a given game is steam steam steam://rungameid/[game_id], where [] is the number that appears in a given game’s page on Steam, e.g. 211820 for Starbound, making the command steam steam://rungameid/211820.
If still using Reddit 1~2 months later, maybe follow them through RSS? I remember coming across RSS bridge tools compatible with Reddit as I looked for other services.