I started experimenting with it a while ago, but I am currenty busy with other things.

Yes, but open-core will come back to bite you in the ass anyways. Enshittification built in.

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/vikunja/

This is not a new argument, but the author is a bit confused with the terms. Usually it is phrased as “social network” Vs. “social media”.

Well, it is true that in the bigger picture there are larger fish to fry, but LLMs are so useless*, so their relative environmental impact feels like an especially stupid and pointless waste.

*I have tried them quite a bit and even ran open models myself, and I am still extremely underwhemed by their actual usefulness. Yes the first impression is cool, and they can write corporate emails well, but beyond that? I can’t help but thinking people like the author of the text (although probably most of that was written by AI) are deluding themselves about the usefulness.

There are of course some narrow usecases like automatic transcription or text translations where modern machine learning is useful, but that stuff can run on a phone now 🤷

I think it is mostly that people have a very scewed idea what a mod means when we are not talking about a closed source single game like Minecraft.

It is probably better to compare Luanti to something like Roblox.

That is why Luanti is a game engine where you can have many different games to cover all these different ideas. It even has a built in “store” where you can easily download and install these games and play them together.

The whole point is to work together on the game instead of reinventing the wheel with millions of often incompatible mods.

No trolling of Wallonia please.

You don’t need a mod for that, you can just fork the game.

It is a joke to compare Minecraft to Luanti because Lunati has significantly more features and game-types than you could ever get with mods in Minecraft. It is just a different development model where “mods” don’t make much sense.

This is not how open-source development works. All the various mod authors can just include their additions in the game if it is open-source. And most Luanti games already include vastly more features than vanilla Minecraft because of that.

That wasn’t my point. Mods get developed because the game itself can’t be modified otherwise. The Luanti games that are like Minecraft include already a lot of functionality that is only available with mods in Minecraft and it doesn’t make much sense to ask for mods in this context.

You can just edit the game? Why would you want mods for an open-source game?

It has equivalents for most Minecraft mods (and more), but no, it is not directly compatible with Minecraft.

I think you should rather ask if Minecraft mods come even close to what Luanti games can do 😅

The “Minetest” you tried was likely just the barebones example game that used to ship with the engine. Since so many people got confused by that, they stopped distributing that example game with the engine and now you get asked what fully featured games you want on first start. Voxelibre is the one that is like Minecraft but better.

https://www.luanti.org/ has long surpassed anything Minecraft had going for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky

I think they meant Minsky.

https://video.hardlimit.com/c/opensource_gaming/videos