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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one
[–] ward2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

privacytools.io is no longer the recommended one since the mod/domain owner split a long while ago, it now heavily endorses ads (such as nordvpn) you instead should use

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

Brave still is a great browser just disable a few settings as recommended in the guide

Halo Infinite lost 98% of its players on Steam since release in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] ward2k@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Sure but Online dropped first for free so people were happy to pick it up on Steam

The campaign release was later and was included within GamePass so people made the switch then, in fact there was a large drop in Steam numbers the month after the release of Campaign likely due to people swapping over to GamePass

I'm not denying a loss in player count across all services, that absolutely has happened (and to a degree is expected to happen no game maintains the peak players) i'm saying that Steam metrics are very poor for tracking Microsoft releases

Sea of thieves has lost around 66% of average players compared to 2020 on Steam despite the fact it actually has a much larger active player count now (Though of course less than the 2021 peak)

Halo Infinite lost 98% of its players on Steam since release in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] ward2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's worth mentioning the most of players of Infinite don't play it through steam but rather through gamepass on PC

The vast majority of players are also on Xbox, Steam metrics are a pretty terrible view in this instance

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Which Megathread should we use (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ward2k@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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As of today I've noticed a few posts on the old Piracy sub talking about the megathread being replaced. I'm aware of the recent mod team changes

The general changes seem to be that someone had write access to the megathread and changed it to talk poorly about the new mod team (of the old sub) though personally I can't see any such messages on the usual megathread

I know we're not really meant to bring up the old sub however I'm unsure if the megathread changes are something we also need to implement here or if this is more just mod drama?

My main question is

  1. Did the original megathread actually get changed to talk badly about the mod team
  2. Which Megathread should we be using from now on?

Edit: The new pinned megathread on r/Piracy that was discussing this change has now been removed just to add to the confusion

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r/Piracy probably needs a rethink (lemmy.world)
 

I'm sure everyone lately has noticed there's a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last

I personally am loving the Lemmy community but I feel as though keeping the piracy subreddit in it's current state is making users of it quite hostile to change since they believe they are being forced to move

This will honestly make them refuse to ever use Kbin/Lemmy since in their eyes it's the moderators and users here that have killed r/Piracy (obviously wrong of the stick it's Reddit that's killing it's own communities with it's policies)

So I guess it's a question of should we as a community hand over the subreddit to a new moderation team or some other change since I don't feel like it's doing us any favours

Hoping to use this post as a sort of discussion about people's opinions