Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest
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The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.
  • stormageddon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    Looks like for now they’re just going to use their own forums for updates and such. Would be cool if they landed on Lemmy eventually like the Star Trek subreddit did.

  • True Blue@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
    71·
    2 years ago

    Cool to hear! It’s a bit strange for them to officially be there anyway, when they definitely have the resources to simply run their own services.

    • JshKlsnEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Not weird at all. I had a question about Emby, posted on the sub, and was told to post on the forum. Had to spend time creating an account, be approved, and then find the correct subforum to ask my basic ass question. Not to mention I cannot delete my forum posts or account. Everything I posted is in the hands of the forum owner.

      To this day I’ve received at least 1 email about my data being compromised in a breach. Fun.

      The benefit of Reddit (and even more so with lemmy) is that one account can be a part of a ton of communities.

      Lemmy is better in the fact that Mojang could technically setup their own instance at like lemmy.minecraft.net and we could join and be a part of it with our current Lemmy accounts. Amazing!

  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    44·
    2 years ago

    Although sometimes it seems like they have their heads up their own asses with how some stuff is managed, it really shows that the devs care about the community they’ve built up

    • Stryp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      2 years ago

      what is minetest? I have looked it up and it looks like a cheap mc clone, there are thousands of those

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        It’s a voxel engine. It’s not anything on it’s own, but it’s made to be extended with games and mods to become you want it to be.

        It’s also not a “clone” of Minecraft, it doesn’t try to be Minecraft. Well, one of the games people made for it does but the base game itself isn’t.

        It’s been around for a long time, since around 2010.