I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
Well, Windows just became harder and harder to use over time with Microsoft increasingly fucking with the workflow and layout to get things done, not to mention the fact that the OS itself is spyware and massively bloated. I just got tired of fighting an endless uphill battle that trended steeper and steeper the longer it went on, so I backed up any files I needed and nuked the hard drives of Windows.
I installed a Linux distro in its place and found joy in being the upstream decision maker for 100% of what's going on with my OS. To use Windows meant I had to fight with it constantly, yet Linux did exactly what I told it to do without a fuss. I was so over Windows and proprietary software that I set out to rebuild my entire workflow from scratch, opting to use FOSS (preferably GPL-based) equivalents. My resolve was so strong that I accepted going cold turkey on something if there wasn't a FOSS competitor available (gaming shit, mostly).
It's been over 4 years since I did this, and I've never missed Windows. Linux and FOSS in general is basically free real-estate and has proven to be highly resistant to rug-pulls. I did like a lot of the proprietary software I used to use, but let's be honest here, the TOS of all that shit increasingly required a one-sided, arbitrarily abusive marriage to the company itself. You can only take so much of an abusive relationship before the pain of transition becomes more worthwhile than staying in it. So, I divorced Microsoft and every other company I depended on Windows to run properly, and life's been good ever since.
Having full access to what's under the hood and tinkering around, shaping and tuning things up to suit your needs and your personality is an art. Quite satisfying expressing yourself in that regard, and having it all work for you.
Think about it this way: Minecraft is what Microsoft wants it to be. Minetest is whatever you want Minecraft to be. The latter is far more flexible, far more optimized, and offers a vastly superior experience and set of packages (mods) to suit your specific needs. The actual userbase itself is the upstream, not a company. Thus, power scales horizontally (among the working class, you might say), resulting in a stable upward trend in Quality of Life improvements.
I'd never heard of Minetest. I'll have to look into that.
https://www.minetest.net/
Plenty of info provided on the homepage of the site. It's really cool. Planes, trains, nuclear reactors, computers, books, pride flags (custom flags can be added and I noticed you like making flags (so do I))
Edit: https://content.minetest.net/ for the mod database.