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Apple: “I play Lawyer in attack position.”

It’s free for Apple honestly, just for unauthorized use of their trademark alone.

Agreed, this whole Unity thing seemed more like they were surprised the peasants were revolting. Completely unaware of the danger of putting developer bills directly in to the hands of the end users, and not considering that a “trust me bro I counted how much you owe me” blackbox accounting method was too much to ask.

Hit the nail on the head, I’d say. Some future competitive game that endeavors to weigh in an evaluation of personal contribution over just the binary win/loss condition and that implements ways to automatically mitigate the negatives enumerated for long duration matches is going to start off in a really good place.

Handling those issues honestly seems like Step 1 in tackling the kind of negativity that is notorious for cropping up in these sorts of games. If everyone’s having a better time and doesn’t feel punished for things outside of their control, it seems reasonable to assume that the baseline behavior will be a lot more chill.

Different platform, but exactly the same deal moderating Twitch chats. I think my favorite insult that I’ve received was that I was personally “the downfall of Western civilization.”

The upshot to those disruptions happening in an active chat like that though is that everyone sees how much of a knob that person is being and is perfectly happy to see them gone.

Yeah, I don’t really expect any further voting on any given subreddit’s side to be particularly successful from this point on because of that.

But honestly I’m kind of okay with a slower start on this side of things. If we see any kind of concentrated surge of users on to the various /kbin or Lemmy instances then I think we’ll find out really quick where the breaking point is from an infrastructure and moderation standpoint. Like a few others have mentioned in this thread, we don’t really need Reddit to die - we just need these alternatives to grow in to viable platforms in their own right.

Yeah, I don’t have hard numbers or anything but I wouldn’t be surprised if the active Reddit users today consisted more heavily of people that are pissed that they were inconvenienced by the blackout.

I can see that. To maybe overgeneralize, the people that are active on reddit today will consist primarily of the people that were inconvenienced by the protest. Quite a lot of them are pissed that they were inconvenienced. Support for the protest on the platform will kind of evaporate because the majority that understand why it was necessary are already gone.