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

• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, like the sites of the 90s.

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• psychadlligoat@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mods for one game vs basically every game

  I could probably host the entirety of the mods on that site on my homelab, Nexus is exponentially larger and more complex

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mods for one game vs basically every game

    As it should be. Or are we pretending that centralization is suddenly good now?

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has always had its perks.

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      • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You mean cash for shareholders/owners? And a hassle to move to the next platform once it destroys itself?

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• Forester@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool hope they do a decent job moderating the servers they run and limiting malware exposure. I also hope they’ve taken steps to prevent themselves being used as a host for malicious entities to distribute malware to third parties

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