Are you sure? I know it was like that when it first came out but I think now they have it enabled by default, just install and run the games under it automatically.

It comes with Steam by default and is automatically used out of the box when a native linux version of the game isn't found.

It also does have an API which can be used by apps, including alternate frontends which don't use JS.

There are more popular people that hang out and comment often in the main communities, then there are people who pass by. I know on Reddit I've seen certain people pop up frequently in certain communities. It's a smaller platform so you see the popular ones more often but it's not that unusual.

Many of their games do have native linux versions, and a lot do work under wine or proton, which can be used as a Non-steam game in Steam or even without Steam.

Their launcher doesn't yet have a native linux version but it's completely optional, and does still run under wine if you really want it.

That is actually a pretty nice feature. Would be great if we had it here. Though it isn't explicitly needed, request communities are also a good solution.

If the .us TLD vanished, as in, if America ceased to be. I imagine com, net, org, and domains of the like would also be seriously affected since their maintainers as well as the organization with all control over all domains and the root servers would also be affected by such change. The internet could adapt for sure even in the worst case scenario, but with how centralized DNS is it would cause more than a few shakeups. Probably would make this incident look like a drop in the bucket.

I disagree, you speak like the united states owns the internet. No one owns the internet. That also means no one actually has to follow IANA's rules, why should they wall themselves off and build out their own air-gapped infrastructure just to circumvent problems imposed by IANA if IANA and the USA don't actually "own" the internet. You can't take the internet because no one owns the internet, get this shitty idea out of your head, internet doesn't belong to anyone, it's all of ours. That also means people, organizations, and countries (especially countries) are free to use alternate DNS systems with either partially or fully forked DNS Root servers.

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If you want to control it you should build your own

Besides the self-hosted DNS servers for Pretendo, AltWFC, and a few GameSpy games (which I also host the servers for) I have no intention of actually doing this, but I am pointing out that no one has to, nor should they, go all out like you suggest if they wanted to do this. They do not need to build out separate internet like you suggest to control their own Domain name system.

Something that nobody mentions when they talk about dead internet theory that I think should be talked about is that the worthless engagement trolls that are real people, really do not and should not count as real people. They're never going to give you worthwhile responses, they don't add anything to conversations. Unless they see an opportunity to pick a fight they're probably not even listening to you.

Therefore they're not really any different than an AI run account that's not going to acknowledge you. And in some ways they are much worse, despite being technically "real people".

Who says they need to go that far? One can build alternate DNS systems without self-isolating, in fact they should. Air-gapping like you suggest is extra work and not necessary to implement new domain registration control and DNS root servers. Also it kind of defeats the point because it isn't a stand against IANA it's saying build your own internet, not take back the one we already have.

Anyone else potentially see a problem in which a single organization oversees all name usage and can arbitrarily decide to break a good majority of the internet over stupid shit like this? Or are we all just fine with a single American based entity being able to decide what domains are valid and not?

If this chart is right that's pretty good, looks like this platform is getting some traction.