HobbitFoot

SteamOS is probably the biggest risk to the Windows monopoly right now, so that tracks.

Yeah. I get the feeling that Valve would be more than happy for people to make competitors to the Steam Deck as long as it had the Steam store on it.

It is the reason why playwrights would never distribute full scripts. You would only get your lines and the line before your line. You also wouldn’t get a lot of time to study your lines. It was common for someone off stage with the only full script to help actors remember their lines.

I rent, so I can’t change switches. Luckily some of the switches I have cover traditional switches.

I’ve got a bulb based system, but I have switches that will operate without Internet. I don’t want to rely on my phone for everything if my Internet is out.

Part of what you would need to create is a qualified voter system.

For a meme sub, maybe the qualified voters are known participants in the community over a period of time.

For a more technical sub like what AskHistorians is on Reddit, voters are those qualified to answer questions.

It doesn’t have to be open to everyone, just the interested.

And you keep coming back to the federation model as a way to keep this in check, but it is still a dictatorial model and the only answer to dealing with a bad head mod is to destroy a community and lose the history of that community.

One of the major complaints on Reddit was the mod governance structure, with rank dependent on who showed up first. On the roadmap, do you see implementing other ways to govern mods, maybe something like how a lot of video game guilds govern themselves?

As some instances grow, server costs are becoming significant. Right now, servers are only funded through donations. Do you see the development of anything else to help fund server costs?