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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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

At that point, it wouldn't be much different from games that simply allow anyone to host their own servers