TIL voting is lobbying

No of course not. Only what you approve as activism is activism 👌 And using official channels is certainly not activism.

Stop Killing Games should be asking for donations to get the people involved to have meetings with representatives in the EU commission. The big, shitty gaming companies that are firing devs en masse and just out to make money have their lobbyists. If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.

Interesting. I thought it was related to verifying whether an account or channel on peertube, odysee, youtube, mastodon, etc. belonged to a certain individual. It could be used for that, but it doesn’t seem like it is, at the moment. It probably has to be integrated into something else somehow.

Gib sauce!

Related https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

I don’t get why loops requires registration. It feels like an instagram pattern and I really dislike it.

Keep signing it! Don’t stop!

Maybe we’re all just waiting for reddit to pull another… reddit.

Oh that’s good. I like that.

And fuck you too btw PirateSoftware :)

That… didn’t end well, did it?

Outdoor ceremony in 40 degree bone chilling weather.

40 degrees is chilly? I don’t want to know what’s warm for you. Do you live in the Sahara or something? Dry heat?

Even sadder is that there are no popular EU streamers throwing their weight behind the initiative. What are they waiting for? Does PewDiePie still stream games?

Would be better if citizens actually cared and didn’t dream of becoming the USA 🤷‍♂

Games are a luxury that happen to be the biggest market of the entertainment industry with more revenue than music and movies combined.

This isn’t “just a petition”. It’s a formal path to get a response from the EU commission. If it reaches the thresholds, the EU commission is forced by law to consider it. It isn’t some random petition that can be filed away and never heard of again.

Which is exactly what the EU Citizen’s Initiative is about 👌

Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet. Globally it generates more money than music and movies combined. Germany alone had an estimated 49 million players in 2022 (wikipedia), with France 45 million and Italy 36 million. Even if they were wrong by one decimal that would still make more than 12 million in those 3 countries alone.

The vast majority of European gamers are just too lazy to do anything in their own self-interest. It’s embarrassing.