this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
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Pure walled-garden behavior from the Minetest devs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I don't see how this is such a big issue. Would feel weird to not be able to change username per server. Sometimes as my name for playing with friends or a pseudonyme if playing with strangers?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The feature request includes the phrase "Behind the scenes there would need to be some cryptographic magic," because it's just yet another "I have a sweet idea for an app, bro, I just need you to do the coding for me" pitch.

The project has 766 contributors with pull requests being accepted all the time. That's not a walled garden.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago

What I meant by "walled garden" is about federation and not commits, like look at the Signal app federation situation, they rejeted it because it might be confused with cyptocurrency, which I did hate because of its volatility

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Alternative idea .... Someone uses OpenConext to provide a federation hub connecting minetest servers with identity providers. You can even call it LuantiID.

https://openconext.org/