Is there a mmo equivalent of the fediverse?

[neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That would actually be really cool. If there were a federated mmo, I’d play it. Well play it assuming it’s fun.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Does this count? https://modrinth.com/mod/fedicraft

[drkt@scribe.disroot.org]

Second Life? Everything is hosted locally and created by the players.

Did you mean OpenGrid? Second Life is not hosted by anyone but Linden Lab.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

I'm just talking about the content in the case of Second Life. It's distributed through BitTorrent, which was one of its selling points at launch.

[kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

There are decentralized MMOs but I dont belive any of them federate

[drkt@scribe.disroot.org]

That's fair.

And not that I'm doubting your claim, but this is the first I hear of it; Do you have any sources for SL content being p2p? It would explain why it so regularly breaks.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

Oh wow are you talking about OpenSimulator and hypergrids like OSGrid? I haven't thought about those in years, I had to look them up again.

As I recall: people reverse-engineered the Second Life communication protocol to make a library to interact with it. Then they made their own viewers/interfaces. Then they made their own second-life-like servers/worlds. Then they made it possible to connect those worlds in grids. This was all open source. I haven't been following them for a while though.

• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List
• https://wiki.osgrid.org/index.php/Main_Page

[drkt@scribe.disroot.org]

That's about right. It's also stuck in time, a decade behind SL.

But they've figured out how to do federated grids, which is cool.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

I was posting when I should've been lurking lol, half my posts/comments as a kid are gibberish

[chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

One method could be to have a replay system, public state snapshots, and publicly logged inputs. Servers could randomly audit federated peers by replaying small segments of their logs, and defederate/broadcast that there is a problem if the end state doesn't match. This would require them to be running the same code and not use arbitrary mods, but different settings would still be possible.

[drspod@lemmy.ml]

I'm trying to figure out what that looks like. So you mean they're just peer to peer? I'd be interested to see one of those, sounds cool.

[drspod@lemmy.ml]

I think the way to make it work is to have each instance represent a "world" and you only have stats and equipment within a world. Then when you cross over to another instance you are now subject to that instance's ruleset.

It wouldn't be so much a federated MMO but more like a large variety of games connected geographically (in the virtual sense).