It’s nice to fantasize about but realistically we’re never getting back to a world without a working global internet of computers.

Wasn’t this a villain speech? I don’t fully remember it but I feel like it might mean something different with the context

There reaches a point with vaporware projects where it’s like, actually release something or I don’t care anymore, it doesn’t deserve to keep getting press

Crazy how the response is to completely gaslight you about what the real issue is

I upvoted because I’m generally excited by the idea of software that lets you interact with different social media via one interface. Idk if the project itself is good but it seems like a neat idea.

These billions of dollars are not held in money, but rather held in terms of things which convey control over resources and other people’s lives.

Under this scenario, one must imagine that people would eventually start growing food and making things on land that they do not “own” and trading it amongst themselves, until some new thing that people actually have access to becomes money. Even hiring security to prevent that ceases to be possible, because paying that security means giving some of that money to someone else

Consider the plight of horses following the invention of the automobile. You might think that if the costs of feeding a horse exceeded the value that could be gained by employing its labor and the farmers therefore as rational economic actors no longer provided them with food, they would go into fields regardless of ownership and eat the grass there. But actually what happened with most of them is they were slaughtered and rendered into meat and glue. I’m sure a lot of people found the idea of a bunch of feral horses running around inconvenient, and they control the land and its access, and the horses and their movements, with fences and ropes and such.

There is now effective mass surveillance, there are now drones with guns, and there is automation dramatically reducing the number of people required for most tasks. I don’t think it’s actually the case that maintaining our cooperation, or even our lives, is the only option faced by the very wealthy to retain their power.

Even if they tried I don’t think they have the leverage to make that work. What games or publishers are big enough that such a move would go worse for Twitch than it would for them? Most of the time indie games make for better content anyway. Twitch could just ban games that don’t include an unconditional free streaming license in their terms of service and not lose much of any popularity, while the game publishers trying to extort them would absolutely lose popularity.

Each server would likely have to utilize a payment service.

Yeah but that would mean each server has to take custody of funds, have their own individual contractual agreements with game companies, handle refunds, bear all the legal and tax burdens of this, and get people to trust they won’t scam them. It’s just too much of a burden, these are all things that benefit heavily from centralization and economies of scale, due to the legalistic nature of payments. You would end up with one dominant instance and unused federation, if there was even anyone willing to deal with all that stuff to begin with.

I feel like you could solve this stuff pretty well with crypto, having payment go directly to the game devs, and a no refund policy or something to simplify things, but crypto is too hated so that wouldn’t work right now.

hm that is a good point

Why don’t people? Because steam is just better

I am skeptical that this is the main reason (even though it’s true and is a reason). I think people don’t like the idea of having their games library split across multiple services, and don’t like using/learning software they aren’t familiar with, or that other people aren’t using.

Nope genuinely never heard of him, thanks for the info

Main problem I see is payments

Otherwise why would anyone use software they aren’t used to? Steam is really good, they’ve been putting massive resources into making it better for many years, and it has all the network effects.

idk who it is either, I’m guessing he plays sports because of the logos

I don’t mind it, Steam is nice but I don’t want them to have a monopoly on PC games

does that ever actually happen

Well no, there’s clearly a third group who is compulsively obsessed with consuming and repeating political memes in a way that isn’t actually giving them any power or agency.

When I took an economics class in college, the idea was broached that it could be possible for finishing a degree to be a sunk cost fallacy, if you realized that the degree didn’t benefit you or wasn’t a good use of your time midway through finishing it, and the effort you already put into it shouldn’t be a consideration. This was a very unpopular idea and most students in the class refused to believe the Sunk Cost fallacy is a real fallacy.

Well if I was doing it I probably would be trying to focus on browser emulation to avoid having to dig into those sorts of details. It sounds like OP is a beginner and needs a simple method.

IIRC it should be able to be made to work since it does everything a browser does, found this search result, though it has been a while since I used it myself at all. Another thing you might try that has worked for me is iMacros, that’s a little simpler and more basic than Selenium but should work for what you say you want to do.