Just spreading awareness about whatever the fuck Mojang thinks they’re doing. Given their enforcement of the EULA, or the lack thereof, this probably isn’t going to have as huge of an impact, but I think it’s still something worth talking about.
Here’s an article on dotesports.com if you don’t want to visit Twitter.
The Minecraft EULA itself as of 2nd August. I’ve got the attention span of a rat on cocaine, so if someone could check if Rock solid’s points are an accurate summary of the EULA, I’d appreciate that.
Servers with ANY content not suitable for 10 year olds are now prohibited
This is just ridiculous. What makes them think they get to decide what grown-ass adults do in their own private servers?
They are about a decade too late to child-proof Minecraft. A lot of the children they might even claimed to want to protect are adults by now.
Can’t be fucked to read the EULA, but the added context under the tweet says it’s about pornography/gambling/etc in for profit servers.
… Which is still ridiculous overreach, but not what the original poster said.
The link for these Usage Guidelines is not working for me for some reason, but the linked reddit thread on the article says that all private servers will be treated as if commercial. If that’s correct, it’s pretty concerning.
I really can’t wrap my head around why. Doing this on public servers I think is annoying, but there’s at least some logic to not wanting kids to stumble into mature content. Private servers though? What could possibly be the reasoning?
How exactly would Mojang enforce this for private servers?
AFAIK it’s purely based on a player reporting system at the moment. So as long as you completely trust your server mates, you should be fine.
All companies now are digging own grave for themselves. Reddit,
TwitterX, Meta, Google and now Mojang. Interesting times we live in.Have any of those other companies you’ve named actually suffered anything?
Musk has sure as hell set Twitter up to suffer quite a bit. It’s a train wreck in progress, but to the uninformed layman it just looks like Musk fucking shit up with little actual blowback.
The reality of Twitter is that it’s royally fucked, it’s just taking a while for the debt to build up to the point where it all falls apart. I expect a complete death of the company before November 2025. Just based on the debt load that Musk saddled the company with.
Reddit showed that they don’t care about their community or their volunteer mods, and lost most of the best moderators. That train wreck is coming, but might take a few years. Their IPO is coming, and they will do something that pisses off the community more when it does. I don’t expect a fast death, or a complete death, but the IPO will definitely hurt more than it will help.
Meta keeps getting fined by various countries, and keeps plugging along. Their Threads app is not quite taking off, but it doesn’t need to… A shit company that will likely be around for at least another decade. After that, predictions become meaningless.
Google is trying to do a web DRM to get rid of adblockers. I expect a massive EU fine in the future, and then they will quietly continue being evil. They really shouldn’t have gotten rid of that motto.
I think the rename of twitter destroyed a good chunk of value.
That’s going to play out as well. There’s a very good reason why X is a shit name.
But pair it with another word and it’s alright. But Musk can’t see that, because he’s a fairly stupid man who used to hire smart people to run his companies.
I think they are. The biggest threat these companies face is not needing them. Hence the bullshit google is trying to pull around their browser. When they make dumb decisions they empower alternatives. The fediverse wouldn’t be where it is right now (which is an amazing growth cycle) without these companies making dumb, self deprecating, shitty decisions. It may not be obvious, but the fediverse is something altogether different than what has come before, and empowering it even a little bit is a serious existential threat to these companies, because it represents a true, unsquashable challenge to their power structures. The fediverse represents a return to the spirit of web 1.0, with the niceties of web 2.0-3.0. I kind of hate the ‘Web X.0’ framing in this sense, because these things are happening concurrently.
The web 4.0 these companies are, as a cabal, trying to build is a walled garden with you as a victim to as much shit as they want to shove down your throat. The fediverse, its growth, and more importantly, its philosophical structure of open source, open access, and consent represents a kind of impurity in their walled garden that means they’ll never truly be successful. Lemmy doesn’t have to kill reddit. It just needs to not be killed by reddit and continue to be viable.
There may be a hard fork coming to the internet. I can see a future where open access, anonymous and private resources depart from the internet of corporations, tracking, and identity as product. With out the fediverse that wouldn’t be happening (crypto sure as shit wasn’t gonna get us there).
So yes, even if these companies aren’t feeling particularly threatened at the moment (and I think some of them recognize the threat. I think Zuck sees it, hence threads), there is a true existential threat facing them. Its the world not needing them quite as much as they once did. It may not seem like much, but that is a huge threat to companies who are locked in a growth or die system. The fediverse on the other hand, doesn’t suffer from a ‘growth or die’ meta-paradigm. It can grow slowly. It can have patience.
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The cynical part of me agrees, but one win that could be achieved is a pervasive anti big tech culture built on a foundation of recent corporate betrayals. The more the tech companies push, the more alienated the customers. Will they keep buying? Probably. Will they stay loyal when other options arise? Probably not.
They are attempting to extract as much wealth as possible before the collapse. I don’t know what they’re planning on doing with money if a collapse happens. Even a partial collapse would cause massive inflation making their dollars worthless if they don’t transfer it out to something else. Unfortunately the Petrodollar exists so it’s likely the collapse of the US dollar would trigger worldwide collapse.
Don’t forget Netflix
If you’re a steamer or youtuber, you have to make your videos free to watch as well.
All videos (in their entirety) are free to view (for example there is no pay wall or other charge to view the videos)
I don’t know of anyone charging to watch MC videos. Maybe as Patreon bonuses?
I don’t remember anyone specific of the top of my head, but as well as Patreon, YouTube subscriptions also can have exclusive content, afaik.
I know a YT channel that does MC videos, and has a few members only bonus videos on the side. I guess these are no longer allowed now.
Rip patreon youtubers
Does that even apply? Youtube videos are already free to watch regardless of whether you have patreon or not (barring people with ‘patron exclusives’)
As always, you can always count on the money people eventually twatting everything up.
A rat on cocaine would have had an enhanced attention span
That would be meth, my friend.
judging a quick read of that, it seems most if not all of the changes only apply to commercial use(thankfully), they even specify it under the personal use area,so that makes me feel a little better. That being said I made it to no name brands such as mods with branded automobiles before my ADHD brain lost interest as well
Another one bites the dust. Sad to see Mojang digging their grave like every other company these past few weeks… I keep seeing MineTest poping up, might have to give it a try soon enough.
This sort of thing seems to happen far too often since Microsoft took over.
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What? Minetest is really cool.
Also, OpenTTD is FOSS and it’s amazing.
I had never heard of it so i just went and tried it, the mods for it are super buggy but, base game was super flushed out and functional. It’s not minecraft, so it’s a little to get used to but, it works amazingly.
I actually reinstalled Minetest and have to say that I take my words back. It’s crude, but fun and playable. Everything is very off and I don’t know if it is because contributors don’t want to get copyrighted by Microsoft or that’s just how it was coded. Probably both
This shit is the reason I haven’t touched Minecraft in nearly two years.
Some time ago, I like making my own servers in localhost, for testing plugins, configurations and more, but this is not good. Where is the freedom to make servers at your own? Well, making not p2w and not breaking obvious things, for this part:
Servers with ANY content not suitable for 10 year olds are now prohibited
It just problem of the parents. Also.
Any server, piece of online content such as video or other may be taken down due to any reason whatsoever
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- This can be regulated with plugins for chat if it is post on the chat.
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- It’s a problem of the owners who make these decisions, they can make the server better or not.
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