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Hmm where have we heard that before? Any eta guesses?
5 months.
2 for the new owners to come up with a plan on how to extract the most value from their purchase.
1 to implement a shitty idea that will immediately get community backlash, then revert it.
2 to wait for people to forget about it before introducing the same idea but presented in a less shitty way.
If I was to place any bets on what they would do, it's either going to be: selling comments and mod descriptions to a corporation for LLM training; or adding time-tracking analytics to their modding client and selling that data to advertisers or research firms while making users require a subscription to use third-party clients.
I liked that site :c
On a lighter note, I’ve been looking for Nexus alternatives. I found this one site that advertised itself as like a censorship-resistant host.
I was like, “Oh, that’s pretty cool. I wonder if they host the mods that Nintendo kills off or things like that.” It was not that…
I go to the site, and all the posts on the front page are like, “Restoring the hard r in game Xenoblade.”
My personal favorite was:
More Racism in Windhelm - Improved
The ways of the business idiot are well known by this point. People know what happens when sites get bought, they know it means things are about to get worse.
The modern internet is becoming absolutely over burdened by rent seeking and attempts at enclosure of the digital commons. No one hasn’t experienced it by this point. Even if they don’t have the words to describe it, they know it when they see it.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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