Welcome to the resistance!

Things are slower over here, but that can also be a good thing.

I don't post here often but lurk a lot.

Welcome to greener pastures! Glad to have you and I’m looking forward to seeing your builds!

Welcome to lemmy! Bit of a correction. This isn't a Minecraft instance. It's a Minecraft community.

Think of communities like subreddits.

Instances don't have a reddit equivilant. Think of it like a server. So if you start a lemmy server, lets call it StaffMaster.Social

You could make your own Minecraft community on your own instance.

Minecraft@StaffMaster.Social

And that won't in anyway affect this community, which is Minecraft@Lemmy.World

But users from this community could still post on your instance. And even if you were hosted on your instance, you could still post here and subscribe to all other instances communities (assuming they're not defederated).

Whats defederated? Ok, imagine every instance sending a line out and connecting with all other instances. Defederating would be like one side cutting that line. When that happens, all users hosted on that instance cannot interact with the defederated instance. However if you got a different account on a different instance that is federated, you can interact again.

The fediverse is confusing at first. But once you get your bearings it eventually makes sense.

Edit: One thing I just realized. I'm not suggesting that you SHOULD make your own instance just to make a minecraft community. In my opinion the fediverse just doesn't have the raw userbase numbers to support multiple communities on most subjects.

I'm just saying that you CAN do that. I'm just explaining how the fediverse works.

That being said, please don't create another instance for the sole purpose of making a duplicate community. You'll either split the userbase, or your version will just never thrive.

See, the whole purpose of that feature is so that if the mods of this community have some controversy, you can create a duplicate community, and the userbase would have a place to have their community without the old controversal mods.

That being said, there is no controversy. So if you create a duplicate community now, the userbase has no reason to flee an established and respected community.

So you feel free to enjoy this community, but I just wanted to explain the why of things.

Welcome, comrade!

As another user said, it's a little different. In a nutshell, Reddit is a single big tree, all stuff within the Fediverse are more like many smaller trees.

A more nuance...

Imagine Reddit and its admins as a lone tree. A tree is an 'instance'. The mods are branches, and subreddits are leaves, and users as ants living on that tree.

When Reddit censors e.g. anti-fascist and pro-freedom of speech stuff, you as the ant cannot really go to another tree. Reddit isn't connected with alternatives. But the Fediverse is different.

Lemmy, Piefed, and kbin on the other hand, are more like a forest of trees. Lemmy might be the evergreens, Piefed broadleafs, mbin/kbin ferns, and so on. There isn't one "lemmy", Piefed, or mbin/kbin. There are many sidelemmies (or sidepies), which on Reddit you would call a subreddit.

There are also many trees in that forest of each type. They're connected. So when one's down, you can easily move to another tree.

Now, the Fediverse overall, is like multiple interconnected forests. There's a Peertube forest, a Friendica forest, a Lemmy/Piefed/kbin/mbin forest, and so on.

As an instance owner, you can pick your 'tree' to be (dis)connected to other trees and forests, to the extent you want, aka. (de)federation. And users can do the same.

If you're going to (self)host an instance of your own, I recommend following similar policies as the Blåhaj ones, they're good. Alternatively, donate to your instance of choice every now and then.

Lol my one and only post on r/Minecraft got deleted back in the day after 5 minutes because it was "repetitive". Twas a screenshot of a cool looking nether portal.

Welcome to lemmy and I hope you enjoy it.