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- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- gaming
- Meldrik ( @meldrik@lemmy.wtf ) 50•1 year ago
Crazy. Mojang should just host their own Lemmy instance 😅
- Briongloid ( @briongloid@aussie.zone ) 25•1 year ago
I feel that every publisher/developer could self-host, basically having a subreddit that is more within their control than before.
Game forums still have good information, this could unite what Reddit hadn’t fully.
- Mirodir ( @Mirodir@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
If they fork the lemmy repo and care to put in some effort, they could even have all the in-game accounts work as Lemmy accounts on their instance.
Now whether or not that is a good idea is an entirely different question…
- Briongloid ( @briongloid@aussie.zone ) 1•1 year ago
I think it sounds like an awesome idea.
- StrayCatFrump ( @StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
It’s owned by Microsoft now. Not like M$ is any better than Reddit. Software devs unionized? Nope. Didn’t think so.
- squidzorz ( @squidzorz@lemmy.ml ) 27•1 year ago
Pretty rich coming from the guys who overly moderate players’ private Minecraft servers up to and including banning players for saying a no-no word…
- IcedCoffeeBitch ( @IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Wasn’t it just a report button though? That also sent context?
- LambentMote ( @LambentMote@lemmy.nz ) 25•1 year ago
Good on them. I hope others follow suit. As an aside, I recently switched to a lemmy app instead of using my ad blocked browser, and holy shit PCGamer’s website is an unusable dystopian nightmare. You have to read the article through a tiny letterbox of multiple competing videos and across the short article there are three full page ads to dismiss. Fuck that.
Here’s the full article text to save you a click.
If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team, you better not look on Reddit. A post from a Reddit user bearing the name sliced_lime and a flair indicating they are the Minecraft Java Tech Lead (almost certainly Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg) announced yesterday that Mojang would no longer be posting official content to Reddit, in the wake of that platform’s response to protests over changes to its API.
“As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits,” read the post, before announcing that those changes have led Mojang to “no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to”.
The events are only obliquely referred to in the post, but it seems the move has been sparked by Reddit’s crackdown on protests against recent changes to its API that would, in essence, kill off third-party apps that let users access the site.
Subreddit mods have spent the last few weeks mounting various campaigns against Reddit’s corporate leadership, either “going dark” by turning the subreddits they oversee into private, invite-only communities or else marking them as NSFW, meaning Reddit can’t sell ads on those pages. Reddit responded by pressuring disgruntled mods, and in some cases ousting and trying to replace them.
In practice, the biggest impact of this departure will be the end of the subreddit’s official changelog threads, where the subreddit’s 7.4 million Minecraft fans and players can pore over official updates in granular detail and offer their feedback directly to the devs who hang out there. Sliced_lime emphasises that players are, naturally, “welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward,” and can always “visit [Mojang’s] feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net” or else contact it via social media.
User reaction has been pretty understanding, which probably only highlights just how angry everyone is with Reddit’s leadership right now. The top-voted comment on sliced_lime’s post, from DamageBooster, just says “Understandable” before asking where else users can access official changelogs.
Still, even if there are other avenues to reach Mojang, it seems fairly dramatic for a game as incomprehensibly massive and significant as Minecraft to cut off Reddit as one of its official ports of call. It’s reminiscent of advertisers fleeing Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s messy assumption of leadership at that company. Time will tell if Reddit’s leadership will take any notice, though (I can’t say I’m optimistic).
I’ve reached out to Microsoft to ask if any more of its studios are going to follow Mojang’s suit and cut off Reddit as a source of official communication, and I’ll update this piece if I hear back.
For now, I think this is a one-off. There’s no sign of any other Microsoft studio doing anything similar so far, so this seems more like a situation that has personally aggravated sliced_lime (and presumably their fellow Mojang devs) than a Microsoft-wide initiative. But who knows? Perhaps one of the biggest companies in the world will take some time off fighting multiple national market regulators at once to direct its ire at Reddit executives. If that doesn’t get their attention, nothing will.
- OctoFloofy ( @OctoFloofy@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
thats why i use a system wide adblocker, no matter which app all ads are still gone
- mrnotoriousman ( @mrnotoriousman@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Do you have any recommendations for Android?
- spiritusmaximus ( @spiritusmaximus@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Blokada
But I still have ublock on firefox
- mrnotoriousman ( @mrnotoriousman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Thanks!
- OctoFloofy ( @OctoFloofy@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Or Adguard (though that’s not free). I’ve the best blocking experience overall with Adguard myself. Actually works in basically everything. Blokada didn’t work in chrome properly, so if you use that that’s an issue. Blokada is free and Adguard isn’t but it has some additional stuff Blokada doesn’t have from last time I used it.
- mrnotoriousman ( @mrnotoriousman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Cool how much a month for Adguard are we talking?
- BBKuma ( @BBKuma@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Adguard is $2.49 a month or $80 for lifetime. If you plan on using blokada, use blokada 5 which is the free one. With blokada 6 they’ve moved onto subscription model.
- pbjamm ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Dont forget Pi-Hole
Successfully running it for years on a Pi and now in docker.
Works great for most things but I have not had success blocking Youtube ads when using the android apps on phone/tablet/tv. I think this is because the app ignores your DNS settings and uses their own. It cant even really be redirected if they use DNS over https or TLS to hide it.
- Xhyro ( @Xhyro@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
This sounds interesting, mind sharing what you’re using?
- OctoFloofy ( @OctoFloofy@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Adguard
- zhunk ( @zhunk@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Setting up a pi-hole on my home wifi made a huge difference for websites like that.
- natryamar ( @natryamar@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Can’t you use Firefox as your default browser on Android and it loads without those ads?
- LambentMote ( @LambentMote@lemmy.nz ) 3•1 year ago
I have it set as default but Thunder seems to ignore that and use it’s own browser apparently. I have a VPN ad block running as well most of the time but shut it down cos I had low battery. Seeing a relatively mainstream previously respected site acting like that shocked me after all this time. It feels like being on a dodgy porm site in the 90s.
- natryamar ( @natryamar@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Ah yeah that how they get you for sure. I try to read stuff in my Google news feed through the chrome pop up browser and the ads are so annoying I almost always end up reopening them in Firefox.
- MarvinKMooney ( @MarvinKMooney@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Sites like that are a cancer on the web.
- oblast ( @oblast@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
reddit finds out that telling people they don’t actually own their own communities is… counter-productive??/!!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
- FIash Mob #5678 ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 13•1 year ago
That’s a pretty kickass statement.
Walking away from a 7,000,000 user subreddit is a BFD.
- xc2215x ( @xc2215x@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Maybe there will be more. Who knows.
- genoxidedev1 ( @genoxidedev1@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
The spez cucks are in full action on the r/technology repost, as usual.
- Zabuxx ( @Zabuxx@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
Let’s invite them over!
- hexachrome ( @hexachrome@monero.town ) 2•1 year ago
Based.
- goryramsy ( @goryramsy@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Wait, then what? Is the sub going to end, or become unofficial? What will be Reddit stance when it does, will they get threatening modmails and be forced to re-open? If that happens, then Mojang should just copyright bomb their content off of Reddit as a whole, as is their right.
- rustyspoon ( @rustyspoon@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Huh? Nothing on the subreddit could possibly qualify for a copyright claim. User generated content about a videogame has never been the intellectual property of the developers, and thank God it isn’t.
Addressing your first point though, I’m not even sure that the sub was ever officially “owned”, by Mojang, but if it was then they’ve transferred ownership, as the sub is still active and running under the original mod team.
- goryramsy ( @goryramsy@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Oh, so the sub will keep going. Thanks.
User generated content about a videogame has never been the intellectual property of the developers
Likely yes, they do. See this that explains it, I know I found it quite informative.
- rustyspoon ( @rustyspoon@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Nintendo orders the takedowns of let’s play videos on YouTube, which is valid (legally speaking) because the majority of the video is straight gameplay footage. The subreddit does not typically have videos, most people post images or make discussion posts. Game developers do not own discussion about their game.
- greymanhuman ( @greymanhuman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I can see reddit becoming another Digg in the next 10 years.