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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Relevant bit

    Over the weekend, Spencer sat down for a lengthy interview with XboxEra in which he discussed his favorite games, talked about what various Xbox studios are working on, and dished on the industry at large. And he was also honest about Xbox no longer being part of any console war, as it shifts to selling Xbox games on other consoles, like PlayStation.

    “I would love to make all of the money for all of the games that we ship, right? Like, obviously we make more on our own platform,” said Spencer. “It’s one of the reasons that investing in our own platform is important. But there are people, whether it’s their libraries on a PlayStation or Nintendo, whether it’s they like the controller better, they just like the games that are there.”

    “I’m not trying to move them all over to Xbox anymore,” added Spencer.

    Now, I don’t expect that to mean the sudden cessation of manufacturing of current Xbox hardware. I’m not entirely sure I believe that any of this means we won’t get another generation of the console at some point, either.

    But I can see that happening. And everyone can already see how Microsoft has begun to pivot away from focusing on its console, has begun a far greater foray into cloud gaming through the Xbox Game Pass platform, and it has even begun moving away from the exclusivity we wrung our hands over months ago


  • Generally it’s just better to ask, even if you were legally / ethically / morally in the clear.

    • if someone doesn’t want it, it’s going to turn them against peertube / fediverse platforms
    • they might not understand what it is, and use their platform to share those feelings

    Meanwhile if someone DOES want it, letting them know will give them the option to do it themselves. It makes less work for you, and they will feel invested. If they want it and they don’t want to upload it themselves, at the very least they’ll let their viewers know that peertube is an option.

    As for the legal/moral side, I still feel like there’s a reason why you shouldn’t do this but I’m not aware of what that might be.





















  • This isn’t really a federation problem, and more that there isn’t a clear “winner” yet.

    Even on centralized platforms, you end up with multiple communities for the same topic, until one of them grows enough to beat out the rest. Then eventually a scandal might cause it to fragment again. There are also separate communities that keep going independently because of ideological differences. See the various international news subreddits

    The movies communities here were like that, but now there is a pretty clear “main community”