Growing up I used to play aqworlds and it was super common in my online friend group at the time for everyone to host their own private servers on their own websites, once I got into the fediverse and webhosting again, I was reminded of it and it got me thinking how cool it would be to have a browser 2d mmo where people hosted their own servers.

Is there a game that implements activityhub at all? Like where server chat can be read and sent from something like mastodon.

I realize this is a stretch and something like this doesn't make sense or exist, just curious.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Veloren is in pre alpha, but it looks like anyone can host a server. I have only been playing it a little and still unsure about everything. It does not use Activity Pub so it is not federated, but it is decentralized.

There is a small community for it. !veloren@lemmy.ml

And it is available on Windows/Linux/macOS.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Federation of servers has been extensively discussed for Veloren, but the problem is that player characters are currently tied to the server they are on (contrary to player accounts) and that the developers are concerned about the potential havok to the simulated economy that players moving between servers could cause.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I started single player, but recently decided to try multiplayer and was surprised I had to create a new character. And as I was thinking about it the economy did come to mind.

Maybe something like FFXIV could be done where you can swap servers, but unlike FFXIV you cannot buy/sell/trade?