https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCQyBcHeDg

Made that coming soon page for the store, and will probably stay static for a decent while. Anything unclear or missing / nice to have? (Send a wishlist item of a feature kr system that other stores don't have or would live improved, if you have one) https://degastore.com

Every now and then I see someone reply with the concept of zero-knowledge proofs as a privacy and non-doxing method of ID verification. I haven't really looked into zkp before, so I did some digging to better understand it, and that more to see its application and ID verification, and if I understood everything right, while it is cool, however, because there is a "trusted source", then that can be abused to all high hell because in the end a "trusted source" would be targeted to reveal the connection made between my personal data and the encryption output and my digital footprint history, at which point I can be fully abused by all parties involved.

Aye, realized gab was a failed project in regards to individual freedom a 1 to 3 months in, if I remember right (I was a young lad then)

So yea, because of what's happening with Steam and Itch and pretty much any store (delistings/censorship of thousands to tens of thousands of games, and will continue to grow), I started mentioning the game store project, where relevant, in regards to the current marketing efforts from DEG Mods. Not that it's in development, but mentioning it's been in the planning stage, and will continue being in that stage, until either DEG Mods sees decent success, to fund its development, or investments come along for it. What's neat is, the knowledge from building DEG Mods and a lot of the code used would carry over to the game store project. And yes, already thought of a way to handle game producers to sell their games using traditional payment systems, without the store being a single point of failure. Hasn't been developed, of course, to know that it'll work, but the path to that goal is there. Envision the future where this is out and its core systems are fully developed and ironed out, this would be the most high-value store for both game producers (indie and AAA) and buyers that solves most of their issues with all current stores. The future with Freedom Tech is very hopeful. It already is awesome for those using it =3

There is interest. Let's have an initial talk and see what happens from there?

I'm a voice in your head. Say hi to Jerry when he comes back from other people's heads to yours.

Caught up watching the latest 10 episodes of One Piece (til 1137). Me through most of them: 😭😭😭😭😭

Didn't start designing anything yet, but basically will look at as many stores (steam, gog, itch, egs, etc) and take all the best bits to make (or at least attempt) at have a nice design and flow from the get go. It'll definitely be easy to publish a game, probably would be easier and more accessible than any other (if not from the start then the second time around with a redesign), and I'm hoping that the GitHub alts on nostr get released before dev starts, so that devs can utilize that as well / perhaps hook it up with it.

I would, but for now that's not possible considering my current geographical origin and where opensats is based in. This has caused other issues as well, and been trying to fix it for a few months now. The fiat world is extremely harsh on certain people, as you're probably aware. Hopefully there's a light at the end of the tunnel / still trying.

Aye. Perhaps I worded it wrong. I'd do that store whenever deg, a modding site, becomes a success and generate enough profit to start covering for the development of the game store and launcher (or whenever some person or group comes along and provides me with funds to develop the store).

Myself, whenever is decently successful, or whenever some entity funds it.

There's already an icon/sybol for sats, 3 horizontal lines with 1 vertical