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[–] turtle@lemm.ee 12 points 13 hours ago

I get that reference. Holy shit!

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don't think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don't know how that works on sites that currently do this though.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No, but I don't think that's what we're talking about. The references to Reddit are secondary, I think. We're talking about how to improve Lemmy by having the place not be littered with a high proportion of dead communities.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, and I think it would benefit Lemmy in general if all instance admins did a clean up. Start by deleting all communities that have been around for a while but have never had any posts.

Edit: there are plenty of those. Look through /communities on your own instance to get an idea and try all the different sorts. I see many communities with several subscribers but 0 posts.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don't read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders.

Argh, this drives me crazy! I went to ebay and was willing to pay more to avoid Amazon, but the stuff comes from Amazon anyway. I'm pretty sure this is just 3rd-party sellers drop-shipping stuff. I don't believe ebay sells anything themselves.

Anyway, I finally figured out that anything being sold new on ebay with only stock photos for a higher price than amazon has a very high likelihood of being cross-shipped from amazon and the seller is pocketing the difference (minus ebay fees?). Either look for non-stock photos, prices less than 5-10% higher than Amazon, or ideally both to avoid this.

A couple of times that I fell for this I made it a point to return the products for a refund. I didn't give the sellers a negative review because I figured that it's just some poor slob trying to eek out a living, but I came close.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I don't watch sports much, but I think I've heard multiple times of certain games being played locally not being available at all on TV due to black outs. I could be wrong though.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago
[–] turtle@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Sure, I agree with that, but I didn't say they were socialist sports leagues, only that that they had "socialistic policies". Perhaps if I had written '"socialistic" concepts' it would have been a bit more clear.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Absolutely! Those corporations also love hobbling or getting rid of any honest competition through mergers, acquisitions, regulatory capture, non-compete agreements, and endless other mechanisms.

 

It's almost as if capitalist billionaire sports team owners in the US believe that doing everything possible to ensure all parties have equal chances at success is worthwhile and benefits the whole system, and conversely, that allowing completely unrestrained economic competition would lead to ruin. 🤔

Revenue sharing

Revenue sharing is a business tool used by North American professional sports leagues to redistribute revenues from wealthy large-market clubs to less wealthy small-market clubs.

Salary caps

In professional sports, a salary cap (or wage cap) is an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries. It exists as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster, or both.

Drafts

A draft is a process used in some countries (especially in North America) and sports (especially in closed leagues) to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players.

To encourage parity, teams that do poorly in the previous season usually get to choose first in the postseason draft, sometimes with a "lottery" factor in an attempt to discourage teams from tanking.

NO promotion or relegation

Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season.

An alternate system of league organization, used primarily in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and the United States, is a closed model based on licensing or franchises. This maintains the same teams from year to year, with occasional admission of expansion teams and relocation of existing teams, and with no team movement between the major league and minor leagues.

 

And if so, what tactics did they use? Pester the devs? Crowdfunding to buy the rights to the game from the devs? Something else?

Edit: I'm more looking for instances of the actual original game being open-sourced through fan efforts or outright purchase, like how Blender was originally open-sourced as a result of a crowdfunding campaign. The open-source rewrites of games are awesome, but I don't have the skills to build a relatively elaborate game on my own. It's also not a popular game, more niche, really, so I'm just wondering what are the possibilities.

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