This is an article from March 2021…

Thanks! It’s extremely insightful to get a peek behind the scenes like this. Stuff like this always happens behind closed doors and threads like yours really help shine some light :)

Do you remember/are at liberty to elaborate on the reasoning and course of events at the time that lead to defederating?

Wasn’t XMPP EEE’d by Google? Not to say that Meta is any better of course

Didn’t twitter just default on a massive google cloud bill on the first of July? This is pure speculation, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the rate limiting is a direct consequence of them having to massively scale back infra because of getting kicked from Google cloud

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I’d say it depends entirely on your mindset. I’ve been enjoying playing it casually. There’s both a ranked and unranked mode, but even in the ranked mode on lower ranks it’s pretty fun to just mess about. It does require you not to focus on chasing rank

CS:GO is free to play and about to get a big update/overhaul into CS2. It’s a valve game so it’s bound to work great on steam deck