How do you follow someone you discovered while browsing a foreign instance?

By now my GOG library has far exceeded my Steam library in size. I was surprised by how many games on my Steam wishlist are also on GOG.

For context, Steam is now forced to display this due to a new law passed in California: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

Valve is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

Where’s the meme

So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?

The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.

My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.

This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.

Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.

There will never be enough donations to cover the cost of hosting videos.

Not language directly, but rather force of habit.

It sounds wrong to you because you grew up saying it another way.

There is no one way that objectively makes more sense than the other, each language simply has its own habits. If everyone in Germany said “drei Punkt eins vier”, it wouldn’t sound awful to you at all.

☝️ This user has never donated to libre software.

Cue the Lemmy users confidently suggesting you just convince your workplace to migrate to Linux.

“I wish Windows would let me perpetually birth, raise and feed humans”

It’s already illegal if your content is large enough to be copyrightable.

Who cares as long as it says “Microsoft bad”

The last major holdout that is also financially dependant on Google. Chromium has consumed the internet in all but name.