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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer’s prerogative.

  Yes, sure, but Steam encourages the use of the DRM included in the Steamworks API.

  If Minecraft could only be downloaded through Steam, that would also be a step back insofar that right now, Mojang will let you download the game without any authentication at all. Changing this would be quite inconvenient for mod developers.

  Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer’s convenience.

  How? With branches / betas? There are a limit to those, and I’m pretty sure Minecraft exceeds them already. And as you already mentioned, you couldn’t use multiple versions at the same time. The only alternative (that I know of), the download_depot method, is far from user-friendly.

  No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)

  That would reduce the number of launchers required from 1 to… 1. 🙃

  Steam Workshop

  The workshop is integrated into Steam and can only be used there (can’t download the files manually, as far as I know). It’s also way too simple for the modding needs Minecraft has (with its multiple versions, dependencies or breakage between mods, modpacks…).

  It would also require Mojang to write their own mod loader, which would likely be too limiting for most mod developers. (And Forge is not the only mod loader out there. There are far better ones, like Fabric.)

  There’s just no point to doing this. You’d replace a system that works very well with one that doesn’t. Steam generally works pretty well for managing games, but I don’t believe there would be any improvement if Mojang were to switch to it for Minecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft in Steam would be a downgrade in every way (Minecraft already has no DRM, lets you freely download and play old versions, doesn’t require the official launcher to start, is easily modded, and so on).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The button must be pressed - Again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why this is being so heavily downvoted, the button has been a really fun event the last few seasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgejo Scraping Protection: Nginx and Anubis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated to the actual anti-bot topic discussed here, but I would just like to mention this point:

  PROTOCOL = http+unix: because UNIX sockets are said to be faster locally but also because this avoids the painful management of ports. Also feels safer [as] there is no way to connect from outside.

  This is really underrated. I try to use this for all the server software I host, and not having to manage ports is absolutely great, along with knowing that nothing can connect to the service internally when it’s not supposed to.

  Except I actually go a step further and use systemd’s socket activation feature, which has a few additional benefits (like seamless restarts, no need for CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE (my webserver and reverse proxy runs as a completely unprivileged user!), only starting the service once there is a request (this one is admittedly less useful), and having a quick overview of bound ports and Unix socket paths listed in the .socket file). Unfortunately, most programs need to be patched to support this, including forgejo (outdated codeberg link here because I had to set the forgejo repository on my own code forge to private earlier today because of scrapers…).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, they switched to Source 2? I thought P2:CE was based on the CS:GO branch of the engine, which would still be Source 1. But I haven’t kept up to date with what they were doing, so maybe I’m wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Button 🔘⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I quoted GLaDOS saying “Don’t press that button. You don’t know what you’re doing.”

  … and no one pressed the button. It ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the different approach some games take, like Minecraft’s “advancements”. They’re per save, so mods don’t disable them (in fact, many mods add their own), and a nice indicator of how much progress you’ve made in a world already.

  And people who care about “completing” a game can still do that in a single save and show off the advancement progress window there (although it can be cheated just like in any game).

  There’s just no global statistics anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches a video essay⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the reasonable thing to do. Most uses of tangents are things I do want to see, but it’s still helpful to enable the category in case something comes up in the video I don’t care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches a video essay⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I enabled this niche aggressive category I wanted niche, aggressive segments. But on videos that I liked? This has gone too far. This category is censoring jokes, it is suppressing creative voices. I can’t believe there are people out there, making this segments on these works of art. It’s a comedy channel for God’s sake! I get that this category is for jokes but these jokes are FUNNY! These submitters should be banned, as they clearly don’t understand these guidelines. Oh they removed the jokes from LTT? That’s fine their jokes are lame. Hey fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock how do I bulk upvote