A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
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Remote mounting of storage and being able to run games directly from the remote server would save a lot on local storage space.
Im a bit confused. What's self hosted here? I download a game onto my computer from Steam, now Im self hosting it for myself. Is it someone else that's hosting the games for download and selling them? Might be cool to pay and download games directly from a developer, if that's at all possible from this, but thats not mentioned anywhere.
Is it just file sharing? Is that what this is?
I've not heard of this controversially named platform. What should I google?
Holy fuck, just... Why?
That thread was a fun read lol
Out of everything they could have chosen, I could not have expected that. It's a poor choice but I still laughed heartily.
Isn't it called BitTorrent?
This is for organizing games not for file-sharing.
Woosh
Lutris is great, does that count?
Emulator compatibility would be great too. It’d be great to bring Steam like features to a platform that works with N64/PS2/Xbox games.
open source, preferably AGPL.
I would really like if the metadata included some recipes to install the games in different systems because I find using DRM-free games on Linux much harder than on Windows. Perhaps is the lack of practice.
I'd love to be able to cloud stream the games. But would need to lock others from cloud streaming if it's in use, or even better, stream to both at once for split screen gaming.
Would be nice to have overlays and chat features similar to steam. Maybe hooking into matrix and activity pub for sharing what game and chatting with friends
The only thing I would remotely be interested in for the purposes of what Steam does, but on a decentralized platform, is having multiple backups in case of server outages.
Ideally, I don't want a service like Steam at all. I just like having an off-site backup to my games. I also don't really want to have "crack pipe download" be in my search history.