I'm not a lawyer, but I vaguely remember hearing that Terms of Service can't protect a company from everything. I seriously doubt a company could get away with that when it was brought to court.
I've always wondered if there was some weirdness going on with the player numbers. It felt like its been doing really well number-wise the past couple years despite being (relatively) abandoned by valve.
I remember seeing some people talk about that on the subreddit, but I don't know what conclusion people arrived at. Are bots inflating that or is tf2 still really popular?
For what it's worth, I feel like this might be good at boosting discovery on the platform. I'm not a big Twitch person myself, but I've ALWAYS heard how hard it is for newer creators to find a viewer-base. Hopefully this helps some of those people out.
I'm still a bit peeved they never truly "fixed" the fonts in the pixel remasters. They did update it when the console versions came out, but they still kinda suck.
Here's a quick little comparison I made:
The font I chose on the far right isn't the one you have to choose though if you want to mod in something. There's like 7 different font packs people have made for these games.
I'm just glad we can change it on PC. Sucks for console players though...
I haven't messed around in any of the historical exploration modes in the previous games, but it's so cool that they exist. Glad they'll be continuing it.
I've been having a few back-and-forths in this thread about how it'd kinda suck from a user's perspective if my instance defederated from Threads, but after reading those historical examples, I'm more amenable to instances defederating. I saw a bunch of people talking about how Meta was gonna "ruin" the fediverse, but not really elaborating past that. Your link explains that better than anyone else has.
I'll have to ruminate on that some more to see how I truly feel about it, but those examples are compelling.
I REALLY don't wanna be in Meta's ecosystems if I can help it.
And the fediverse grants me the ability to be exposed to all the content over there, but not be subject to all the awful privacy violations they're committing on THEIR users.
I'm sure we'd squabble over the definition of "very easy", but yeah, I could run my own. I just take issue with the whole defederating Threads thing on principle.
I logged back into Twitter for the first time in a couple days, and I just saw a TON of people I follow posting their Threads account. It kinda sucks that if the instance I'm on defederates from Threads, I just won't be able to follow all those people I know and WANT to follow.
I could try and find an instance that doesn't defederate from Threads, but that's probably not gonna be easy. And I definitely don't want to use the platform myself.
Of course you're gonna have "low quality influencers", but if you're attracting THOSE people, you've already attracted a massive audience of other people. Those low quality influencers wouldn't be coming over in the first place if there wasn't a massive audience to appeal to in the first place. And if there is a big audience on these platforms, then you're gonna have the higher quality creators come over.
I make YouTube videos, but I'm hesitant to fully dump Twitter because I'm losing out on a critical connection pathway with my (admittedly small) audience. If I could know that a majority of my audience was on mastodon AND that I could collaborate with other creators in my niche, I'd fully switch over and delete Twitter from my phone in a heartbeat.
But I can't do that because everyone uses Twitter.
Threads is letting people get their foot in the door for the Fediverse. And I think it's really sucky that, if I want to reach the biggest audience, I might just have to make an account on Threads, because practically all the instances out there are defederating from it.
Of course, but OP brought up that they couldn't be sued. I was just pointing out that if someone was willing to test it, I bet they could come out on top.