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on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
The company that now owns SteamDB has this bolded on their front page:
We acquire. We amplify. We conquer.
It can’t really get more dystopian than that.
NexusMods themselves went to absolute shit, requiring an account for stuff like downloading mods, and getting a premium subscription for basic features like “Instant downloads”, “Viewing more mods per page”, and “The ability to choose a preferred download server”.
SteamDB used to provide a completely free (in price) service, with no strings attached. This was by far the most common usecase of the service. Seeing the history of NexusMods and the company that owns it, this will change. The moment SteamDB requires an account for previously public info, or even a premium subscription, is the moment the service becomes unusable for most. Effectively, SteamDB is marked for death.
To add to the other commenters reply;
When Jolla does something, like make new software or patches, most of that is proprietary. They’re creating their own thing, and nobody outside Jolla can benefit from their work. That’s fine, but pretty much equivalent to any other corporate-owned mobile OS in terms of freedom, like Google’s Android.
There’s more open options, but they all have their differences. Ubuntu Touch (or really anything on UBPorts) has some components you would also find on Linux, but still uses the OEM kernel and proprietary Android device drivers. This means that devices are much more likely to work, but you rely on the OEM to maintain support for the device on Android. postmarketOS (and others, like Mobian) try to build most things from scratch instead. This means less hardware is supported, and functionality is often not great. However, all development is open, and they’re trying to ensure there’s little to no reliance on OEMs. This theoretically makes for much better (community supported) future proofing.