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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good news, but does someone more knowleagable of these things know the likelihood of a Trump DOJ derailing this? I am hopefully as the original case was brought in 2017 under Trump, and his relationship with Big Tech is at best strained, but I truly don't know what to expect moving forward.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Me. There's just an irony in pointing out the failure of Steam to effectively moderate (true) when Twitter has a much larger footprint, seems to be actively encouraging hate speech not just tolerating it, and is being rewardered for such behavior. The article points this out too:

There's an aspect of irony to the complaint: Elon Musk turned Twitter into a haven for racism and far-right rhetoric, after all, and he's being rewarded with a high seat in the incoming US government.

Senators only have so much time to pick and choose which issues to raise awareness about, so Steam seems like a weird fight to pick given the wider landscape ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . Could just be there's a much higher chance of getting an actual change from Steam than a larger social media platform.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not to excuse any hate speech of any kind, but looking around at social media and the effect it has especially on young people and saying "steam forums are the problem" seems like missing the forest for the trees

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No features missing just prefer an actively maintained app. I am also using it right now as its the best available option!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My bad you definitely did! The search continues!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Thank you for all this research! I've used both Pedometer (PFA) and Paseo, but is it true Paseo is actively updated? Seems like last commit was 2022 and used to come fairly frequently. I've been sad that there is not an actively updated pedometer app.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Trying to bring that European holiday energy to my American workplace 😤

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Had a similar thought and you put it very well! AP VoteCast data here is helpful on this point (caveat that final numbers are probably still not in yet)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

This seems less crazy than the things he'll actually say

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So many layers... Almost like an...

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Conflicted about up voting in c/nottheonion because this IS the Onion

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Would love this result to change, maybe with some help from cured ballots, but my hopes are not high :-(

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