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It seems from your response that you have at least some desire to educate… Why must that also come with derision?

It isn’t that hard to convey a message without such a contemptuous tone, and I’d venture to guess it would be more likely to persuade. Someone has seen some good in a thing. You can disagree without scorn.

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Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My apologies, this community is generally memey/jokey in tone, and was going with that. /gen

I’m also firing off dumb comments at like 2 am where I am, lol. Please do not take my short soundbites (text bites?) seriously.

On a more serious note, one billion dollars is a legitimately unfathomable amount of wealth and, by extension, unilateral power. That’s a dangerous thing for any one person to hold, regardless of how kind their heart is since it means the use of that power is dependent on the whims of one person.

Corporations are also, by their nature, driven by a profit motive. A corporation can do non-evil, customer-friendly things but that can also change very quickly. It’s important to differentiate between beneficial behavior and altruism.

Also, I typically don’t expect people to read me soapboxing unsolicited under a green text meme lol.

Also also, I am quite appreciative of the benefits of Valve’s efforts. I just don’t assume they’re purely doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Nor do I expect/demand them to.

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- imeanwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ve lurked on Lemmy for over a year and this post, for whatever reason, compelled me to register an account to respond; I took your comment to be a tad critical. It seems I may’ve misread the room here - my apologies if so. I agree wholeheartedly with pretty much all you’ve said. Thanks for the response.
  
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  - Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Your concerns are valid since text is hard to interpret due to lack of inflection, context, and other intonation indicators. I try to remember to use tone tags but don’t always.
    
    Thank you for your thoughtful responses and engagement, though. Good faith discussion is an important thing on the web, and is a large part of why I like Lemmy over Reddit and other centralized social media sites. I appreciate you for that and adding to the constructiveness and positivity :) /gen
    
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