1y ago

Minecraft is leaving Reddit

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Welcome to the 'find out' phase, which should wrap up nicely by around the 7th.
- I’m out of the loop here, what happens on the 7th?
  
  The 3rd party apps are closing at the end of this month, which means there'll be somewhere around a week or so of people realising just how bad the official app is, plus decreased quality content as the actually-motivated people who post things continue their gradual migration away from reddit and driving redditors to seek other places to gather.
  
  It’ll take about a week for the ‘find out’ phase to wrap up, then we’re onto the lesser known ‘baby please come back I can change’ phase.
  
  total reddit death. TRD
- any reason it's the 7th ?
  
  I imagine because any impact won't be seen immediately and a week seems like a good amount of time
  
  I'm guessing it's because it's a week after 3rd party apps shut down. A lot will change when that happens, and the 7th is far enough from the 30th to feel it.

goood!
Reddit behaved in such a horrible way, that I feel like API pricing was the least of the bad...
One could argue about their fairness and aim to destroy 3rd party apps, and I had already closed my accounts at that very step.
But the way they treated mods, forced subs to open and behaved like pure evil assholes, I really see how companies or more "official" subreddits with a touch of interest in their users, would feel the desire to leave and close bridges
- I feel the same way.
  As an Apollo user, I didn’t immediately leave since I wanted to see if some agreement would be done.
  But the way they treated the devs is insulting, I work on IT and know a bit of how complex and time consuming this is; doing all this work just to be considered a parasite to be cut, and seeing how horrible the AMA was; really showed Reddit’s true colors.
  Currently liking this federated initiative, big potential and less company ruining agenda. Very comfy here.
  
  If Apollo works things out with reddit, I'd be willing to consider keeping reddit as a secondary source of content. But I think that bridge has been burnt so bad that that is highly unlikely
  
  I didn't even use Apollo but the defining moment for me was when spez lied about his interactions with the dev. That shit is foul and I just do not want to associate with that.
  
  Didn't even think about it until now, but a company could start their own lemmy service. Wonder if that's a thing already or will become a thing. The only issue for them is would other instances federated with them, if I'm correct? Still new and learning.
- I don't even care about the API prices and I used to use the official Reddit mobile app before migrating.
  I've been looking for an open source Reddit like platform since the Twitter drama started and people started migrating to Mastodon, but there wasn't much content on them, until now, so I jumped on the band wagon.
  
  I felt this. I just honestly needed another option and so star this seems to be it. I don’t understand the difference between kbin and lemmy. I’m hoping apps just end up supporting both platforms/instances.
- The underhanded, lying, victim blaming actions from reddit were so much worse than the shutdown on its own. If reddit had been more honest about their intentions of shutting down 3PA from the beginning, 3PA users still wouldn't have been thrilled, but we wouldn't be seeing this reddit meltdown.

They wanted out anyway, Microsoft wants control and they were using Reddit just like DJI is using reddit: they were a bit forced to follow. This is a perfect opportunity to leave and make the support happen on their own platform. Other big brands will be inspired and will leave reddit too.
- the way I read it was that Minecraft is a community that holds the contributions of its base in high regard, and that's why they can't associate with reddit anymore because reddit now stands for shitting on its users and destroying their work instead of cherishing it.
  hence the comments about recent changes introduced by management affecting the community and how that's the reason they feel reddit is no longer an appropriate place.
  
  I mean, if that was their reasoning they should be leaving Twitter as well
  
  This is a war of content. u/spez also holds the contribution of his users in high regard, to the point where he is undeleting it. They both want our content, I don't see how you cannot make the link.
- Minecraft dev here: support on Reddit was always more of a passion project for a few people and not a hard mandate.
  Leaving reddit was the teams choice (I assume for the same reason some of you left, reddit went to shit).
  
  Have they considered going someplace else like Lemmy? I was a little disappointed that they didn't offer an equivalent alternative to go to.
  
  Any plans on moving to a different platform like lemmy here? Or is it something that might just happen organically?

Holy shit! Good for them! Hope they see the benefits of the fediverse at some point.
- SlicedLime, at the very least, is active on Mastodon. I'm not sure about other Mojangstas.
  
  This comment right here truly made me realize how big mojang is these days, as I honestly have no idea who that is

Looking forward to seeing if this trend will continue with other game platforms; I know the r/GlobalOffensive subreddit spun up the @cs magazine on Kbin a while back, and I'm sure there's some others that are doing the same.

we need to ask them to join fediverse
- It's Microsoft, they'll probably try to move onto Teams and or SharePoint.
  /s
  
  Or Yammer 😆
  
  You kid but they would...

Cause why? Cause F u/spez !

I wonder if other official subreddits will stop being official

Minecraft leaving it's a big one!

Do you think Microsoft actually cares or this was just a good way to reduce their areas their PR team need support?
- Microsoft owns Mojang, but by most accounts they are very hands-off with the company. I don't think Microsoft proper had any input on this decision.

He could come here. We have a nice Minecraft magazine with, well quite frankly very little content so far. But he is welcome to post updates here.
- Microsoft should create their own Lemmy instance and host official communities for all their games.
  
  That is a great suggestion

Fall into the end dimension and eat turds Spez. GG's @Minecraft.

Hijacking this since you guys all seem like swell individuals.. but can anyone direct me to some minecraft modding materials? Im trying to get this monster I made into the game and I dont know where to look @.@ I asume there are some forums here somewhere on lemmy but Ill be damned if I can figure it out.
- You could try the mod-dev channel in the modded minecraft discord. There’s some tutorial info in the pinned comments and you might be able to find some people who can answer your questions if you’re respectful. As someone who has just barely read into where to start, they really assume you are already familiar with development with java, as as half the work in getting started is just setting up the coding environment. Made my head spin.

Wonder where they'll go

This is great to see!

Holy shit. That's actually pretty huge. I have a feeling a lot of companies are going to realize how hostile reddit can be and stop officially supporting the subreddits. How much longer will /r/DestinyTheGame be supported? Ninja Kiwi only posts the full patch notes for BTD6 on the /r/BTD6 subreddit, will that go away?

This is what all responsible game, media, and other creators need to do. Keep the "....and find out" coming.

Important to note is that the r/Minecraft subreddit (as far as I know) will continue to exist. The Minecraft developers will just leave the platform and no longer post updates regarding the development of the game on there.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wx5DOjceJc?si=lGWBdHW7tPa68Wxu

Image Transcription: Reddit
So Long, and Thanks for All the Feedback, submitted by u/sliced_lime to r/Minecraft
[Post is marked with a flair as Official news, with the poster being listed as the Minecraft Java Tech Lead. Op has also upvoted this post.]
As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits. Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer our players to.
We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you've participated in in past changelog threads. You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us on one of our official social media channels.
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- Good human

Sheesh

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