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  • If she is gone … What will the community do then?

    I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

    If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

    There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

    So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.



  • This is a great thing, but mass adoption should still be refrained from

    Mass adoption would be great as long as it happens naturally over time, and not a result of the “we must grow” mentality of Silicon Valley.

    Like Reddit, the massive “default” areas would be fairly low quality, with the culture being a reflection of the broader population. But the smaller specialized communities would be beacons of light for people looking for nuanced conversation.

    With the way the fediverse is structured, the negative aspects of mass adoption would be simpler to avoid, simply by curating an instance to show content from the communities you’re interested in.

    I can’t think of a better omen for the future of the free internet, than to have most people using a FOSS social media site as their primary online hub. It would certainly be better than allowing all online communication to be controlled by a handful of billionaires with goals that are harmful to society.

    But again, this needs to happen naturally, by virtue of Lemmy just being a great place to share content, and without the goal of simply making the most money possible.








  • I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

    Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

    Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

    Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

    I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.