I’m out of the loop here, what happens on the 7th?

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.

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.

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.

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).

SlicedLime, at the very least, is active on Mastodon. I'm not sure about other Mojangstas.

It's Microsoft, they'll probably try to move onto Teams and or SharePoint.
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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.