Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

30p87@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, unless someone makes an alternative, people are going to use it.

  They do need to provide a lot of bandwidth, which isn’t free, though I wonder how viable it’d be for someone to create a Nexus-like Website using magnet URLs and BitTorrent as a backend.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.

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  • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are JS based torrent downloaders. That would work for the normies to get files, but you’d still have to find a way to convince people to host files on the backend. It’d probably take a full-on desktop client wrapper with an embedded torrent client but that’s a pretty hard sell for the average nerd if you’re upfront, and probably a harder sell if you’re dishonest about it.

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    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t the average nerd only need a good ol’ regular torrent client?
      The slightly-more-than-average nerd could be incentivized through a specialized client that also acts as a mod maager (iirc Nexus Mods does this, minus the torrent protocol), and the bigger nerd would write themselves a Linux client without using glib nor GTK while evading bioluminescent three-letter org agents of specific ethnicity and sexual orientation.

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• Forester@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A free account.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s still an extra barrier. There’s zero point other than tracking what people do.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It also tracks what you’ve downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.

      It’s not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And to limit scrapers.

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      News flash running to servers isn’t free.

      Yes they are tracking us. That’s how they pay to keep the servers running.

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes I know.

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      • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But somehow eg. rdr2mods.com is free, and without accoung. Oh wonder.

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      • malwieder@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you’re paying they’re also tracking you.

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