I’m a huge fucking nerd.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The 30% cut was industry standard for digital distribution for years. Google, Apple, and numerous other players all took 30% as standard.

    That being said, Steam hasn’t taken a flat 30% for years now - their standard agreement starts at 30%, decreases to 25% after the first $10m in sales, then decreases further to 20% after $50m.

    Furthermore, Valve has done more in terms of providing services, APIs/libraries, and end-user features (all with no additional fee to the developers or consumers) than any other game storefront has. I’d say they more than justify their cut.





  • Telegram does have E2EE, just not in regular chats. Its secret chats are E2EE, as are its voice and video calls.

    I also think it has the best UI of any of the messengers, personally. It’s customizable and very polished overall, at least on Android. Very smooth/optimized while having loads of features and lots of little animations to make things flow nicely without getting in the way.

    I do like Signal and Matrix clients as well, though I just wish Matrix had more of a user base.