No, it doesn’t, because, you used ‘embraced’ when the it would be more accurate to say that Dorsey started and oversaw the development of BlueSky.

Hitler didn’t go fully nuts into megalomaniacal monument planning, overuling his generals, micromanaging superweapon projects, untill … what, 1942ish?

Hitler embraced the autobahn, he didn’t oversee it as an involved executive, he appointed Fritz Todt to make actual decisions and lead the project.

He also didn’t invent it or found it. It was a thing that already existed, that he thought was a good idea, despite himself having really nothing to do with its early development.

(also just ‘holy shit’ at immediately jumping to literally Hitler as a comparison. I don’t even have that much smoke for Dorsey, sheesh)

Dorsey, on the other hand, started BlueSky, and ran BlueSky the way all VC/‘Angel Investors’ run their projects: You can’t really say no to them, what they say is basically understood to be what you do… or, they leave, as Dorsey eventually did.

He was obviously frustrated that he was not being listened to, on this project that he set up.

You can’t be frustrated that people aren’t listening to you if you’re not saying things, giving guidance, suggesting policies… that people are disregarding.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twiiter-nostr-interview-2024-5

Very early in Twitter’s history, Dorsey imagined that Twitter could be an open-source protocol that wasn’t controlled by anyone, instead of a venture-backed, for-profit company. But that didn’t happen. And later on, when Dorsey got frustrated while running the for-profit version of Twitter, he imagined that Twitter could help start an independent, open-source protocol version of itself — Bluesky.

But then — in Dorsey’s telling — he got frustrated that Bluesky was doing things like the old Twitter. Things like raising money, and moderating what happened on its platform, and having a board. Which Dorsey was on.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/jack-dorsey-reveals-why-he-left-bluesky-deleted-account/473992

Key Takeaways

Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter, now X, and later founded and funded an X rival, Bluesky.

He left the Bluesky board on Saturday and announced it on X.

Dorsey explained that the trouble started when Bluesky started moderating content.

I really have no idea how anyone can pretend that BlueSky wasn’t Dorsey’s idea, his project, his baby.

Oh wait, no, I know.

If thing becomes bad, then person I like wasn’t actually involved with it that much, therefore person I like is not bad.

… Either that or bro is high as balls on catnip.

That hurt my brain to read, but I think, basically yes.

Its a cabal of mostly vertically integrated companies vs basically a horizontal monopoly that gatekeeps all of them, that’d they’ve all tried and failed or are currently failing to break through.

And yeah, petulant publishers does sound like a match to me.

Its basically mob tactics, just higher class.

Find your nearest cat cafe, introduce a ‘business proposal’.

Actually just made some comments elsewhere on lemmy about that lol.

As a Deck haver/user:

Steam Input

Added missing buttons to Mode Shift Button selection menu: Left Stick Touch and Right Stick Touch

Button Chord Activator’s drop down list of available buttons has been replaced with a multi button selector. This means that newer controllers have full access to extra grip buttons that were previously unlisted.

Gyro to Joystick Camera’s Minimum Joystick Output now matches Gyro to Joystick Deflection’s behavior, which is useful for identifying a game’s internal joystick deadzone.

Improved input latency while controller rumble is happening on third party controllers.

Added option to apply Gyro to Joystick Deflection range remapping and acceleration settings on an Per-Axis or Circular basis.

Fixed a bug in Gyro To Joystick Deflection mode where a setting of 0 for Minimum Gyro Deflection, and any non zero Minimum Joystick Output would still result in zero output without a significant amount of gyro deflection. This should help gyro users to dial in games’ internal joystick dead zone size more easily.

… I had, for months, been trying to tweak most of these exact things, and thought I was going insane, as nobody I could find anywhere online discussing this kind of stuff seemed to even be aware of these problems.

So its nice to know that I am not insane, and that these things have been fixed.

… but that only makes sense if you genuienly believe that Rockstar and/or EA have less cash than Valve, and/or Rockstar and EA never had their own relevant liscensing agreements.

I may be wrong, but as best I can tell, there is no precedent in UK law for a platform/retailer being found liable under the cited Section 20, unless the content being distributed/retransmitted/sold itself did not have proper liscensing arrangements, and it can be proven that the platform/retailer/retransmitter knew that to be the case.

I kind of find it unlikely that Rockstar and EA did/do not have liscensing agreements in place.

My theory?

The entire Publically Traded gaming world seems to be mobilizing and coordinating efforts to get every kind of secondary organization they are connected to, to sue Valve, right now.

Because they are all financially imploding, and they’re trying to do as much damage as possible to Valve, who isn’t a part of their club, as a means of trying to level the playing field.

All these people on the boards of top gaming companies… are also on the boards of other top gaming companies, they know each other, they have people and contacts who sit in all the gaming industry lobbying groups, and the astroturf fake ‘gamer advocacy’ groups, in the IP rights groups, etc etc.

Yeah, this… doesn’t really make sense, unless the goal is to get Steam to adopt a policy of delisting the specific offending games in the UK.

I am not a lawyer, but… this seems spurrious?

I don’t know, I can’t find a single example of a platform or ‘retransmitter’ being successfully ruled against, in cases where the content itself already had worked out a rights/royalties agreement with the rights holders… unless it can basically be proven that the platform operators / retailers knew that the content itself was not properly liscensed, and sold it anyway.

So basically they would have to prove that Rockstar and EA never had the proper liscensing, and also that Valve knew that.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that Rockstar and EA probably did/do have the proper liscensing.

That being said, the UK leaving the EU… makes all of this exceptionally confusing to my layman self, as to the exact current standards and precedents that are currently in play and relevant.

Aka, money is more important than challenging people to think, so, pander to morons and make more money.

Oh no, another ‘safe space’ brought to you by rainbow capitalism turns out to be, in fact, another ‘safe space’ brought to you by rainbow capitalism.

Anyway…

God, don’t get me started on orbital data centers.

Either you cause kessler syndrome by launching a million microsats, or, you just I guess invent scifi level orbital engineering, and come up with a scifi solution for thermal regulation.

Also like, server data centers require, you know, on site maintenance.

… its a very dumb, expensive idea.

… Like, a Canon printer/photocopier?

So its just projectile vomiting generated images of the scene you likely intended to describe?

Real Time Raytracing.

In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.

So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.

But… yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.

And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.

It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.

as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.

Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.

He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject… he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.

That user growth translates to more revenue for game developers. Since the 2018 announcement of the 75% and 80% revenue share tiers, more and more games from developers big and small have reached new higher revenue share. The revenue share paid out across all non-Valve games on Steam in 2025 was 76%, and that does not include any revenue developers may earn selling free Steam keys outside of Steam. Back in 2024, we shipped a new notification feature for developers to make it more clear when their game has crossed a new revenue share tier, and developers can see a game’s progress towards those higher tiers in their sales reporting.

Not directly related to the new hardware, but that does put a bit of a dent in the ‘Valve takes a 30% cut’ line.

Evidently, netted out, its 24%.

More accurately its caused by AI Mania, not AI proper, directly, but yeah.

He lets her know what’s up, wink wink.

Its the sun, thats whats up, COCK A FUCKIN’ DOODLE DOO!

I still kind of can’t believe no one else has done that.

Its legitimately baffling to me.

Oh, yeah, our one game just is a level editor for our other game.

… I can’t think of another example of anybody ever doing that.

They’d work in Streets of Sim City as well.

Aren’t there like… 2, 3 of them, in this huge fucking castle?

And they never move…?

I don’t know.

Its been like 25 years since I last played that game lol.