Does it need to be better? Can people just share things they find interesting or that they made?

Then go complain somewhere else, you asked for an explanation of how it works.

It’s because it’s JSON-LD.

I don’t understand the comment. It’s like calling the fact that firstName is in the JSON {"firstName": "Bob"} “over engineered bullshit” when they should’ve made some application specific protocol instead of using JSON. ActivityStreams and ActivityPub are built on top of JSON-LD to utilize existing libraries to represent linked data (that’s what the LD is). To specify what schemas are used there is a “context” field. There are other schemas as well. Take a look at https://schema.org/ to see them.

If it feels over engineered it’s because it’s meant to be able to represent a wide variety of types of social media and typical interactions with them. I seriously doubt Mastodon (micro blogging) and Lemmy (link aggregation forum) would be able to interact easily if they weren’t “over engineered”.

Because it is JSON-LD and that’s how JSON-LD works. It’s an extensible format. Similar to XML namespaces.

It helps when you understand that you only ever directly interact with your instance.

• Alice posts to A (in some community hosted on B)
• B is federated with A so will eventually receive the post
• C is federated with B so will eventually get the post

To me “review bomb” implies giving a rating based on external or irrelevant factors. Giving a game a bad review because it doesn’t run correctly on your computer is perfectly valid and helpful to other users.

piracy

This is legal.

Regretting a decision doesn’t make it an accident.

No it’s not. If Steam goes down you cannot keep playing your games without using a crack to get around the DRM.

GOG is the only big option if you want to own the games you purchase.

I think it’s pretty clear from context that they mean they have the ability to perpetually play the games because of the lack of DRM, not the right.

Nobody is saying otherwise.

Nobody is saying otherwise.

LIVE FREE IN THE NC

People here claim, that just because GOG cannot remote wipe your drive, people buying off GOG have a perpetual right to the games they’ve bought.

I think it’s pretty clear from context that they mean they have the ability to perpetually play the games because of the lack of DRM, not the right.

Mama’s Coconut Chicken

What they mean is that technically you still are being granted a license to use it. The same was true for things like DVD movies. They’re technically correct, but missing the point.

I totally understand your point, but when people talk about “you own nothing” they don’t really mean you “own” the content on physical media, they mean it doesn’t have DRM that requires an online service. You’re technically correct, but your pedantry is making you miss the forest for the trees, basically.

As great as Gaben and Valve are his word doesn’t mean anything (it’s not a personal attack either, it’s just that it isn’t anything binding). Luckily if they fail to keep their promises (or legally cannot) then the crack community will step in. I’m pretty sure they cracked Steam DRM ages ago. I remember a friend using it for Left 4 Dead back in the day.

Maybe at work just ask IT to switch your machine to Linux.

Good luck lmao