First, I am not a male. Second, I do believe the US gov has my data. Every single piece that is floating out there. I will still not share it with them, may there be the odd chance they do not yet have it.

Most definitely

Trusting Microsoft automatically means trusting them with your data. Since the people on Lemmy are often good at IT, they understand what it means to trust Microsoft with your data. Most will likely try to avoid Microsoft. I myself do not use my Minecraft account anymore to play.

Besides, they are trying to push Bedrock. They won't quite yet kill Java, but that is likely more because of the (missing word cuz I can't english) it gives Minecraft as a whole. Notice, that this may change. Java already has an incredibly small user base compared to Bedrock.

Hmmm yes. Though now that you speak of decentralization... Would be pretty epic if we had a Fediverse type platform but "posts" or in this case torrents would be saved across the network, kind of how digital currencies do. That way with enough participants worldwide, it would be quite hard to shut that platform down. Distopian still lmao

Libretube works off piped servers and has multiple instances listed ready for use. It includes Sponsorblock and has a beautiful UI. It's slightly buggy sometimes but if you can deal with that it's the best.

Might wanna fix that

As the next guy, can confirm.

The definition of vanilla software makes it clear that only unmodified software, in this case Minecraft, is considered vanilla. The word vanilla is choosen for this to represent the kind of standard taste (vanilla ice cream is often viewed as basic lmao). Technically, resource packs do not alter the codebase of minecraft and neither do data packs. All they do is provide some data that the game uses to run.

Here is where it gets complicated sometimes though. As you could have probably guessed, using mods is not vanilla. That is, because the code of Minecraft gets extended or injected. It is no longer unmodified. However, data packs can sometimes be structured code-like and can be used to execute functions. This is problematic, because although the source code of Minecraft is still the same, that code could load in other code from some data pack and execute it, essentially giving an effect also achievable by changing Minecraft's source code. It's similar with resource packs, although not nearly to the same extend.

So while generally an unmodified piece of software is called "vanilla", Minecraft itself kind of blends what that means exactly. Minecraft out of the box would be considered vanilla.

Second this. And other instances would still be accessible. Even more so since lemmy.world (along with probably some others) is starting censorship, which wouldn't affect you, since you decide what you can see.

I would, but sadly the security hardware just isn't there. Calyx works though!

I think I don't know enough about all this to understand your words magic man

"What da dawg doin?"