That was just the cost to buy a propaganda machine with over half a billions users.
dare I say Arch is easier and users friendly than Ubuntu
No, please stop trying to fool Linux beginners into starting out with Arch.
3, about two lines per contributor
That's because X means absolutely nothing. It's a letter commonly used to fill in blanks. It's an awful name for any company/brand.
Better than Steam I'd argue. Unlike Steam, games you buy on GOG are yours to keep forever. No DRM like steam that ~~forces you to log on after a few days offline~~. You also get better version control.
Edit: the offline limit was a bug. Offline restrictions would be dependent on the DRM solution for each individual game.
It's actual purpose is to infuriate lemmy users. I don't think I've ever seen a comment with that signature included that doesn't have at least one reply from someone telling them it doesn't work. It's pretty funny.
Sweden and Denmark being yellow while the US is green is hilarious.
We use manual approval for programming.dev accounts where there is a very simple instruction you must follow to be approved. The amount of spam that fails that test makes me concerned about the amount of bots from instances without any barriers for account creation.
What happens on reddit (in regards to spam) will inevitably finds its way to ActivityPub link aggregators like lemmy.
Ah yes, the country Scandinavia
If a game is on GOG, I'd rather buy it there than on steam. Steam is great and they do a lot of great stuff, but you don't own the game if you buy it through steam.
Xanathar is a beholder crime lord in Waterdeep/forgotten realms.

Half of TES lore is about racism, oblivion even got a racism table for all the playable races.