Instance Update #6 2024-08-10

Hi folks!

these were some rough couple months since the last update, I gotta tell you. In the meantime, I went active with self employment again and am working on quite a couple projects. One of them is a new Gameserver!

Minetest

We have recently opened a new Gameserver for the Open Source Voxel Game Minetest. Those who have followed our instances updates will already know that freedom and fairness is what we strive for for everyone. Free and open source Software is pretty high up there in terms of this. Since Minecraft has gotten a couple features that we dont agree with (mandatory telemetry, microtransactions, chat control), we have decided it is time to try this new game. Since this is a whitelisted server, you need to apply to gain access. You can do this by writing a dm to the instance admin @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com or join our matrix space.

Moving Hosts

In the meantime, we have also moved hosts. The old host has had technical issues which have eroded our trust in seamless availability of the service for you so we decided to move the instance over to hetzner. The server now has one additional backup procedure in place and sits on dedicated threads.

Thoughts about Discord and the Minecraft Server

Since many years, we are also running a discord and a minecraft server, which both have served us well but which represent old, proprietary systems which we are no longer really comfortable with. Therefore we will likely start phasing them out at some point. Since we havent yet found a solution for successfully porting our world to minetest, we will likely keep the server on for a bit but the end is already in sight.

Rising costs

As time progresses, costs of living for our admin as well as hosting our server are increasing. The fediverse is not selling your data and isnt a corporation so the text you are reading here is brought to you by hardware, acquired or rented by individuals, ran with electricity paid by such individuals. If you value your freedom and the content brought to you, you may want to consider giving back in the form of a small donation.

New community

Since today we have an „addons 4 kodi“ community on our instance. The community is for help and support as well as exchanging ideas around kodi and it‘s addons.

There are other similar communities but they‘re on the huge instances. For some time, centralization has been a problem for the fediverse so we‘re determined to do our part. Feel free to join !addons4kodi@lemmy.giftedmc.com.

Kodi is a free and open source media center app which helps you play your favourite music, movies and shows, either from your own library or multiple streaming services.

Thank you for reading and have a great day! :)

Edit: testing stuff 2024-09-01