oh very interesting. i’ve been wanting to get into the details of how federation actually works, and i wanted to figure out why mastodon<->lemmy federation does often not seem to work. but i guess that’s a deep rabbit hole too!

if you’re on linux, you can do sudo apt update and then sudo apt install minetest to install it, then you should get a start menu entry called “Luanti” and just click that to launch.

(it could be that the package is called luanti on your system instead of minetest, depending on what repository you use. they renamed it at some time.)

you can do singleplayer, multiplayer (local area network only), and multiplayer (over the internet).

all three of them don’t require you to get an “official account” or sth. singleplayer and multiplayer (local) are very easy to set up, you’ll figure it out in less than 1 minute.

multiplayer (over the internet) requires a bit more technical knowledge. are you familiar with the linux command line, and have you ever rented a linux server before?

there’s a list of publicly-visible servers on the luanti multiplayer screen. maybe it’s one of them?

The only reason I try it out is to get an understanding how these games work and to have some basic knowledge of one of the most important and played games of all time.

understandable. in this game (mineclonia which is exactly the same as minecraft, content-wise) you collect resources and turn them into something else, quite a lot how real world (industry) works. there’s two types of raw resources: renewable and non-renewable resources. renewable means stuff like plants (yes, you can plant and harvest crops. use a hoe on a patch of dirt to turn it into farmland, then you can plant seeds there. they grow after a while) and animals (cows, chickens, etc which you can feed with grains etc) and monsters (these spawn in the environment, they can harm you if they touch you for example but you can kill them with a sword and they drop loot like zombie flesh, bones, spider eyes etc which are useful for some recipes).

and then there’s non-renewable resources which you can dug up from under the ground. stuff like raw iron ore, which you can then “cook” (smelt) in a furnace to get processed iron ingot, which you can then use in a lot of recipes to turn into other things, such as railways, wagons, pistons, etc.

there’s quite a lot of content actually but these are the basics.

i’ve played luanti for a while and loved it! it’s really neat and has a lot of potential. i’ve even gone to write a custom modpack for it.

i have also written here about how mastodon is more user-centric (because you follow users) while lemmy is more topic-centered (because you follow topic-oriented communities).

now i conjecture that maybe mastodon is more closely appropriate for location-specific content? because you can have one mastodon instance per city, to see all the stuff there (all contributing users) in a wild, mixed feed. and as is usual in a city, you might have specific people that you know well that you would like to hear more stuff from. meanwhile on lemmy, emphasizing individual users is a bit more difficult and less easy to do.

so i’m wondering whether there’s a correlation between user-centricism and location-centricism, versus topic-centricism.

this might be an abstract thought but idk whether you can understand it?

(in which case i would like to embed whole mastodon instances as a community in lemmy. so you might subscribe to the https://feddit.org/c/mastodon:wien.rocks or https://feddit.org/c/all@wien.rocks community to see all stuff from the https://wien.rocks/ mastodon instance. wien is the city of vienna btw.)

there’s dedicated “test” communities for this kind of post btw

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uh i get what you mean, but that has mostly to do with the users here, and not technically with the software itself. although the (well-written) lemmy software surely encourages nice users to come here :)