Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community
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It's was a lateral move from one person inside Nexus to another moderator. It wasn't sold to some faceless corporation
Edit: fuck me I was was wrong:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1lcyzxz/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/
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I've seen too many services go through enshittification, which is why I've always made backups of the mods I installed.
That said, that obviously scales poorly if you download a lot of mods or really massive mods.
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I’ll probably keep using it and see what happens. To be honest I’ll just go where the content is, and if the new people fuck it up it’ll likely go elsewhere.
I got a "lifetime membership" on discount right before they did away with that option entirely. I'll stick around for a bit, too, mostly.out of convenience, but I ain't contributing, and I'm leaving uBlock on at all times.
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Oh no, this is never good. How long before they implement a required pay system?
If they make it $1 a month and it doesn't charge you for .months you don't download anything I'd be fine.
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They'll probably implement a daily/hourly download limit like MEGA does. So, for example, you can download 1000000000 small mods of some kbs, but the limit is 5 GB, so the mod bundle for big games is virtually limited to premium users.
They'll probably try to change the lifetime subscription(the biggest sin in capitalism, how do you make infinite money without doing nothing if people can buy subscription once?), making it useless compared to the premium premium subscription.
Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.
Is a enshification process not so painful so the vast majority will not bother to look for alternatives.
In other words: We're doomed.
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Would it be possible to build a fediverse modding platform? What would that look like?
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Would it be possible to build a fediverse modding platform? What would that look like?
I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?
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The problem is capitalism, plain and simple.
How would this specific problem be better under another system?
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It's was a lateral move from one person inside Nexus to another moderator. It wasn't sold to some faceless corporation
Edit: fuck me I was was wrong:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1lcyzxz/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/
That’s a good chunk of money for some internal moderator to have on hand. (Not that it was an all cash deal.)
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Well, there's still ModDB? (I don't use ModDB so I dunno if it's controversial or not)
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I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?
Can things be fedirated and monetized so long as the monetization is put into maintenance & upkeep?
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Best I’ve got for you is this
Post in thread 'Nexus Mods site has been sold' https://www.resetera.com/threads/nexus-mods-site-has-been-sold.1219452/page-2#post-141554013
Thanks! That's damn good for "best effort"! A convincing lead on what company it may be.
Personally, I still don't think it's time for immediate red alert, but I'll have to keep an eye on things. Hopefully we'll see some competitors like GameBanana step up to the challenge.
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How would this specific problem be better under another system?
In a system where money is not a thing it would just be a creative passion project and run endlessly until it was no longer needed.
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I remember getting my Morrowind mods off there. Peanut Gallery edition for me!
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Well, there's still ModDB? (I don't use ModDB so I dunno if it's controversial or not)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Idk if it's controversial, but I've always hated the layout of that site. It seemingly has not changed in decades, either, looking at it now.
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In a system where money is not a thing it would just be a creative passion project and run endlessly until it was no longer needed.
Great. Yes. Under some kind of egalitarian free-energy tech utopia such as you're describing, websites like Nexus mods would be even better. Sadly there are no such systems already operating for us to move to, and we do not yet have the technology to try creating a new one.
So any other political systems that are more real-world?
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Could have been worse. My first initial on reading the title was that some enshitification factory like Fandom. com or Microsoft had bought it
edit: wait nevermind. Chosen apparently is a literal enshitification company
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Can things be fedirated and monetized so long as the monetization is put into maintenance & upkeep?
Nothing stopping you trying!
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They didn't say anything about a sale...?
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Would it be possible to build a fediverse modding platform? What would that look like?
What would you federate? Would you federate posts of each mod with a link back to the home instance. Would you federate the entire modfile.
I'm not sure activity pub is the right fit here. We would lose so many mods and it would make it much harder to find mods.
