A team of 4 people from the Fediverse and I are working on a “federated” Minecraft server if I dare say.

The goal would be to have a proxy with a central lobby that would redirect to dozens of servers maintained independently by instances or users of the Fediverse, all scattered around the world!

The project is already underway: minefra.me. What do you think about it? Join us!

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    3 years ago

    This isn’t news, there plenty of networks that already does this. You might be just a command away in fact to get a “Player Server” or “Player World” in fact.

    Also I hate to break it up to you but that isn’t federation, that more like “we provides the connectivity and you do the rest”. Not that much different than saying using your own web server with a CDN network.

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      3 years ago

      That’s why they put federated in scare quotes

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        3 years ago

        Even then, it’s been done for years on end. It’s not a new concept and is actively in practice.

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          3 years ago

          Does it have to be a new concept?

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            3 years ago

            Curious that he made this kind of post some time ago … https://lemmy.ml/post/75726

            He’s just a Minetest fan who is going to discredit anything and everything about Minecraft, am I wrong?

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              3 years ago

              There’s not a single mention of Minetest by them in this thread. Even if they’d discredit everything, it’s a logical fallacy to think they’re wrong just because they hold views you don’t agree with.

              That’s called the genetic fallacy.

        • Helix
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          3 years ago

          Can you provide sources to that statement? Would love to learn more.

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            3 years ago

            I am no longer in the Minecraft communities so it’s not easy for me to source anymore but typically there are networks that will happily links their BungeeCord or similar instances up to your servers. If not have in game means of creating “servers” or “worlds” on the fly. Those are normally called Player/Sub Servers or Player Worlds.

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              3 years ago

              thanks, that gave me some keywords I can google :)