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submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

Sober is exclusively available on Flathub, whom published these figures in their Year In Review: https://flathub.org/en/year-in-review/2025

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[-] LemmiChanga@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago

A few of those downloads was me trying to get Roblox to work.

[-] monomon@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago

Although Roblox is very far from my taste in games, I wanted to join my kids in a few multiplayer games, and was very happy to find out Sober exists. It worked like a charm.

[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 7 points 5 months ago

Yea that's pretty much my extent of Roblox myself, playing with the kids.

It's certainly something, some of the "experiences" are plain cash grabs (which I talk to them about) but I find quite a few to be genuinely fun, even if they're absolute chaos sometimes lmfao

[-] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Man I tried.... but for a former gamer it's really bad :D anyway the kids seem to love it when I join.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

One of these three games has been strongly implied to be involved in child grooming this year. Fun.

[-] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

Only one of them plausibly hasn't, and that's because it's not got a multiplayer mode

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

I'm actually talking about the behavior of the developers and that whole debacle where Roblox started banning people working with law enforcement officials to catch pedophiles on the platform, then turned around and accused them of basically aiding pedophiles, and THEN put out a shady interview trying to explain their position in a way that ultimately made them look sympathetic with pedophiles.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago

Without knowing the previous year's number this doesn't contain information about growth

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

It hasn't existed that long.

[-] lennee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ok but its a client u only have to download once so even 2 downloads would be growth

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

its the year of child abuse platforms on linux!

[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 3 points 5 months ago

if you play Roblox (I do sometimes for nostalgia or to mess with some free nonsense with friends) sober is really good. it complains about Wayland but works perfectly.

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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