Indeed, a lot of social platforms where it’s about communities instead of individuals start by attracting nerds/programmers then the gamers and then others see a use case.

Also slicedlime is in the Fediverse already. Not sure if he has an account on Lemmy, but he can be found on Mastodon: @slicedlime@octodon.social.

I’ve been enjoying Create a lot, partially because it’s giving me flashbacks to (one of?) the first huge mods Minecraft had: Better Than Wolves. Besides that ComputerCraft is one that I keep coming back to. I’ve once made a world where I started with a mining turtle and an unbreakable pickaxe that could only remove ComputerCraft things. All the resource gathering and building basically had to be done using Turtles.