But Valve’s “We gotta cover our asses” move is to help an open ecosystem, not try to create their own walled garden. Yes, they are a company making a rational, capitalistic decision but it’s also the less lucrative but more moral decision.
It’s pretty disappointing that Mozilla chose to go with Mastodon. There are already plenty of org-backed mastodon instances. It would have been nice for the supposed primary steward of the web and decentralization to really show the power of the fediverse and use a different implementation. Mozilla, and any other orgs starting up instances, could really help expand the fediverse, instead they’re helping to cement mastodon in it’s Gmail position.
https://aftermath.site/ is a good site for video game journalism. They’ve mentioned https://rogue.site/ but I don’t subscribe to that one so can’t vouch for it personally