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Steam is a bad home for FOSS projects (humnom.net)
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[–] Ferk@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Since the day community tags were introduced on Steam I have been systematically adding tags like FOSS / Open Source / etc. to the FOSS games hoping to one day see one of them actually work as filter tags on the store, yet they never ever did. And yet tags like "Snooker" with only 11 games can be used as filter...

At this point I'm almost convinced that Valve has purposely blocklisted those terms from the allowed tags (it's known that they do have a blocklist). So I've resigned myself to depend on the curator system, to find which FOSS games are on Steam from within the store page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-Source-Games (and they are more than 11...)