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It’s because they are angry trolls who are already angry about something else and are choosing to take it out on others, hence why this guy decided to lash out at you without even paying attention to who he was replying to.

I’d also recommend joining GamesThatHateYou and following the curator since it’ll tell you if a game stopped using Denuivo or just switched to a different but similarly terrible DRM.

For anyone who wants to avoid games that do this kind of shit I can’t recommend the following steam curators enough.

• Denuvo Games
• GamesThatHateYou

They also tell you if a game has had Denuivo in the past and has removed it, in case you don’t just want to avoid Denuivo but developers who use it or ever did in the past.

They’ve had LDN in the main build for a while now, I wouldn’t advise using that dedicated LDN build, it’s quite old and hasn’t been updated. The standard one has LDN in the settings under the network tab.

Not really, it’s still the same architecture they just removed the ports. Every Wii (and even the Wii U) can still play GameCube games via Nintendont because the architecture is the same, just with extra features.

The reason that programs like Nintendont are needed in this case is because they add in the extra input controls so you can use Bluetooth, classic controllers, or even USB GameCube controllers in the games.

gamers aren’t usually a prime target, except for cryptominers…

Don’t many gamers often have a lot of money, considering those huge libraries of games as well as those very expensive PCs, I feel like it would make sense to target them, at the very least for the possibility of commandeering and selling their accounts, plus the ones who download this malware by opting to play games with Anti-cheats and bullying their friends who are unwilling or on the fence into using it, it seems like they would be easy targets.

Do you realize the difference is that a console will generally give a known quality and they usually just work without tweaking and tinkering?

The problem with this argument is that it only applies to PCs that you buy and build from off the shelf parts like any other computer you get where everything can be different. It does not apply to a pre-built console type PC manufactured using a custom IC pre-configured operating system dedicated to run games in a console-like experience, where every single one of those models are the same, especially in a case like the steam deck where it’s made by the same manufacturer.

But not everyone wants to do more than plug in, update, and play.

Pretty sure you don’t need to if all you want to do is play games, a good majority of games work out of the box already. Maybe it wasn’t the case in the beginning when proton was younger (which is where this mentality comes from) but it certainly does now.

Edit: Hmm Downvote with no response, that plus your username tells me all I need to know. Have fun.

Probably would result in a less than optimal user experience since it is still in development and has bugs and graphical glitches especially on Later Flash games (Actionscript 3).

That is very likely what they would do, though I imagine that they would start doing PCs and PC handhelds before killing off Xbox, if they even actually killed off Xbox, and didn’t just transition the brand to that model, either way it’s more of a smooth transition rather than just up and moving on to something else.

I just want to say in case you didn’t see my other replies, that probably won’t work out as well as you think, because the way instance blocking works it only blocks the communities. User content still comes through.

From Join-Lemmy:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

So regardless of the uninformed people suggesting this, it isn’t a solution to this issue, especially the hexbear spam problem, it’s not an alternative to defederation, and it never was, fact is Lemmy isn’t a free speech platform, people and instances can and will be banned and moderated, people who don’t like it just need to either deal with it or go elsewhere.

Are you sure that they defederated, because from what I saw they just blocked some of the communities, it certainly was looking like it would end up going that route though, plus they were banning people from the instance in the thread who were speaking out or making points, it certainly was a feud between the two instances, but it didn’t seem like they defederated (though I do remember some very angry anti-piracy trolls calling for it).

Realistically with how Fediverse works they could just ban his actor from their collection node and it’ll ignore all requests made by him or replies to him, as if they never even happened.

I only know of one server who defederated dbzer0, so it doesn’t seem like a major thing. Maybe some are hiding the Piracy communities (that happened with Lemmy.world a while back) but most seem to still be federating with dbzer0.

I think the spam and regular attacking and harassing users is good enough a reason to defederate hexbear, if it were a few users I would say just ban those users, but this is an instance wide problem for them (as in there are more problematic users than non-problematic users, and non-problematic users almost always have accounts elsewhere).

Instance blocking in Connect for Lemmy also hides all comments from all people in the blocked instance. It doesn’t make them disappear like blocking a user does, but the comment appears with the body text replaced by a button that allows you to optionally unhide the message (like how Discord used to hide messages from blocked users).

I never used that app but I can tell that it absolutely is not how blocking in the Lemmy back-end works, I’m not even sure if it adds insance blocks to the user’s account when using the feature or if it just keeps them client-side, since that feature existed long before Lemmy itself had the option. Regardless many people don’t use connect, especially desktop users (connect is a mobile app) so for them it won’t work the same way.

Defederation should literally be a last resort option IMO. Otherwise you end up like Beehaw: isolated on an island away from like 90% of the Fediverse. Great for moderation but terrible for discoverability and growth.

I would agree but it’s important to realize where that line is, and to make sure it’s reasonable. Defederating Lemmy.world because of their bad users isn’t reasonable (just ban those specific people) defederating hexbear is, because their instance is entirely dedicated to spam and trolling, it’s a matter of community health, it’s not just because they’re annoying or we don’t wike them.

As an example, I like anime. Let’s say hypothetically that you don’t like anime and that I have an account on your instance. And let’s say you hate anime, actually. You want your instance to defederate from ani.social (and any other instance that hosts anime content) because you hate anime, but I don’t because I like the memes and discussions from there. How do you resolve this? Now think about what happens with an instance that hosts content that is of a different political ideology than you. Its really the same problem.

I don’t think this is really a good comparison, you’re framing it like every call for defederation was founded on personal opinion as opposed to said instance’s impact on community health i.e. Hexbear’s tendency to spam and harass people, or ExplodingHeads and their tendency to attack users of minorities (particularly gender diverse folks). Lots of people will feel these bans infringe on their freedom, yet these are for the good of the community. It’s important to remember that most lemmy instances (the ones still in the main network) are not and have not been free speech havens. When these types of guidelines aren’t enforced you get communties very similar to 4chan and gab, where the loudest ones rule and push out everyone else, it’s the Nazi bar problem. This isn’t really comparable to admins blocking instances out of personal preference, which is in a sense a form of malpractice, this is a form of moderation meant to keep spaces sane and normal, otherwise people won’t want to be their and it’ll become a Nazi bar (or Tankie bar in the case of Hexbear).

Lemmy does best when it gives as many options to its users as possible, including preferring local user instance blocking as compared to defederating.

I think you’re thinking of Nostr, Lemmy is very much a power to the site/administration type platform. They’re the ones that have the final say, they can literally ban your account from the entire network and prevent you from even logging in (on your Homeserver). The big difference between Lemmy and mainstream centralized sites is that there’s more than one of them, so if you do get nuked on one you can go elsewhere, or even start your own. Same thing when it comes to instance defederation. The user options are the servers they can choose to home themselves on, not being exempt from moderation requirements or overriding admin’s decisions. If a person doesn’t like that aspect of mainstream media, they’re going to hate Lemmy just as much. Lemmy isn’t a free speech user choice haven, it is social media free from central corporate influence (for the most part, corpos can start their own, whether instances follow them or block them is a different story).

Heads up, instance blocking doesn’t do what you think it does. I just want to make this clear because a lot of people suggest it without having read the announcement on the join-lemmy page or the dev comments on github and get a less than accurate idea of what it does. From Join-Lemmy:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

It isn’t a souluton to the Hexbear spam problem and this is something people should remember and keep in mind when suggesting it as an alternative to defederation.

Probably best to have two discussions, one for each instance, as there might be two entirely different verdicts and also the problems on each instance aren’t the same.

I mean, I am not fond of the head admins running Lemmy.ml, but you should just do what I do and block the instance.

I always say this and I’m going to keep saying it until people get the memo, instance blocking doesn’t work the way people think it does, it only blocks out communties from appearing in feeds, it doesn’t do anything for spam and bad faith actors:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

For that reason it should not and cannot be used as an alternative to defederation.

Probably something to do with them not wanting to be part of the Fediverse and federation, since it gives them less control of content and moderation. Also judging by the way they run their instance it seems like they would prefer something more along the lines of the classic forum experience.

For instances which choose to intentionally mirror or otherwise make available threads content on instances which defederated threats, instances which know about and are deliberately circumventing the fediblock on those other instances it does indeed make sense though. Keep in mind when I talk about it I’m specifically talking about instances who are intentionally trying to circumvent the fediblocks by a coordinated effort, not just that they federate with threads.