GOG does, yeah. itch.io has comments under projects. I know EA has forums. Not sure about the others.

Edit: If it’s for a game, yeah, the developer. However Steam’s own forums aren’t moderated at all or well. Full of nazis and other scum.

Yes. Because they don’t have to care.

The other contenders mostly are bad.

At least a few of them moderate their forums and reviews. Steam doesn’t and that’s why it’s full of bigots and fascists.

Maybe they might actually moderating their forums and getting rid of the bigots and fascists though.

the epitome of moral neutrality as a business.

Yep, and that’s exactly why it’s overtaken by bigots and fascists.

offering a worse service

At least some of them moderate their forums, unlike Steam.

pretty great for consumers.

But not anybody that wants to avoid bigots and fascism.

Yep, and that’s exactly why it’s a nazi bar.

I know this is about copyright/copyleft and stuff. However, I’m tired of seeing previously good and working projects start degrading in performance.

We recently switched from one media player to two because the former contained LLM regurgitated code and the replacement didn’t. Guess which one worked better? If you guessed the two replacements you’d be correct.

I actually asked some projects to move when Microsoft showed their hand and lack of ethics and complicity with both LLM (copilot specifically) gobbling up data and genocide.

The maintainers seemed unbothered by that and more concerned with their ability to be found, which to me says a lot about what priorities they have.

I deleted my github account and won’t be back, and in the meantime hope that open source projects realise that moving to a non AI infested coding host/forge like codeberg or self-hosted forgejo will be better in the long run. I don’t hold much hope but we’ll see.

All in all this has been a mess, both for users of open source software and coders.

Users because the regurgitated code does create errors and degrades performance. The degradation of performance could be said to be true of the maintainers/coders too as the more they rely on LLMs/ML the less belief they will have in their own work, and they will lose those skills even if they don’t lose that belief as has been well documented now.

It’s a sad state of affairs and I hope the ‘AI’ bubble bursts and we can go back to having decently coded programs etc again, in the mean time I’ll keep seeking out those that have explicitly said no to regurgitated code and promoting them over those who sycophantically support or rely on the bullshit machines.

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It’s Sporespondence.

Well, there is a solution to that. Start turning dreams into actual stories so they have plot and can be continued. It’s a great tradition!

Ditalini Druid

Spaghetti Sorcerer

You should be able to change it.

my (goodness), did you need (so many (parentheticals))?

Yup, sadly a lot of people think corporations are their friends.

So, not very then XD.

Yup, Valve famously do not care to moderate and even fired their moderators for some forums.

Since they aren’t publicly trading then this won’t change as they don’t need to care.

The only way to change things up is to start affecting their bottom line as people move away from the nazi bar that it has been for a long time.

Have Session added forward secrecy back in yet? If not then it’s not all that secure imo.