It isn't early access if anyone can buy it and they're charging money for it, it's a released product.
They just released the minimum viable product even though the actual devs probably told them not to.
I'm currently in the market for something like a Chromebook but I'm not buying one because of stuff like this.
Goodbye Drop, nice knowing you.
Watch Corsair add maximum rainbow unicorn vomit while cutting every cost and quality aspect they can. Independent my arse.
Please don't treat posting to Lemmy like a job and honestly do we really need a bunch of reposts anyway? I don't think so.
The problem is human nature. Content, activity and funding for development will drop off very hard and it'll likely become like XMPP is today, aka bloated, a mess of standards and basically forgotten about.
Meta just want to suck all they can out of a promising technology and it isn't their first trip at the rodeo. See Occulus as well. People are right to want to keep Meta at arms length.
As long as I can still use all the current free functionality then I don't mind these things. It's when these things become the only option ala Reddit killing 3rd party apps that it becomes a problem.
Even if you wanted to stay as a mod you'd have to have taken a shot to the heart after all of Reddits shinanigans lately. Years of free effort and this is the thanks you get. Absolutely disgusting betrayal of people who have done a mostly fantastic job keeping the wheels on the beast all these years and I'm absolutely stunned they did it.
RIP Reddit as we currently know it.
Even if mods still want to continue modding their aubreddits you'd have to have taken a shot to the heart after years of free work with what Reddit is doing now. This has been one of the worst displays of ignorance and ungratefulness I've ever seen portrayed on an online forum that's supposedly operated by professionals.
This is probably true. Forum software is a lot more mature then Lemmy etc and probably a better overall option currently for a project like Jellyfin to operate. They just want something that works.
"And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”
I love how this is suddenly only a problem for them now but has been something they defended for years previously.
Beyond All Reason
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
It a grand scale RTS game with robots and insects loosely inspired by Total Annihilation.
I'd be down for something like this on a PVE realm where your own actions are typically what lead to your death. I'm less enthusiastic on a PvP realm with permadeath but I understand the current version isn't for me and that's okay too.