Nia [She/Her]

How do you block words? Can you do it from the site or is it just in some of the lemmy apps

The article says that the same thing is happening to Google as well with Android, I’m no Apple fangirl, but they made an announcement about this once they were allowed to while Google hasn’t said a thing about it publishes it in transparency reports without naming the US Government, without a statement on it yet. Both were operating on a slippery slope since they weren’t allowed to discuss it directly until now.

They’re being compelled by the government to do this, doesn’t matter who you are if the government is forcing you with a gag order, no one can fight back against that.

Look into lgogdownloader, it’ll automate that process for you and it’s really convenient, and skips ones that are already backed up in future backups.

I run it every other month or so

Edit: ah just realized it’s linux only, I’m sure there’s some version of the same thing for Windows and Mac too though

Edit 2: here’s one that should work on Windows and Mac too https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc it’s not the most user friendly but worth it if you have way too many games to go through, especially for those that break up the offline installer into like 20 different 4gb parts per game

You’re in luck if you want to stay with the apps, the other maintainer made a fork of it shortly after, also Astion, the group(company?) behind the Midori Browser is going to fork it too and promised to keep it foss forever, not sure which of the two are gonna stick around though, I don’t know much about the Midori devs.

The fork made by the other maintainer seems to be the one people are switching to most.

Based on how GalacticHypernova is talking on that thread you’d think Protonmail, Tutanota, Skiff, and SimpleLogin’s CEOs all made fun of them in high school and started their villain arc

The amount of the repost bot accounts got so annoying for me I just turned off “show bot accounts” in my settings. I don’t see some of the helpful ones, but it’s so much less frustrating than having to block all these bots.

A lot the people making them are doing it in good faith, but when a bunch people are doing it at the same time on a lot of communities, it just gets to be way too much.

I’ve peeked around a bit every now and then and it’s mostly either neutral to negative

A lot of people seem like they didn’t really bother with trying to move and don’t really care that it happened, and a few I’ve seen think that people who moved are being dramatic/overreacting

The content quality over there has dropped a bit too, they still get a lot of traffic and lurkers but a lot of dedicated posters came here. Noticed a lot more reposts than usual there.