I use FOSS whenever possible.

They probably don't want to learn, so they won't try to learn how to use Lemmy or Kbin.

It's probably on purpose. Kotaku encourages pirating Nintendo games. That's part of why Nintendo blacklisted them.

The Minecraft subreddit isn't closing, Mojang staff just won't be posting there anymore.

No, there are too many pirates. There will always be a few smart enough to get around whatever new security they create.

Could try searching the url on archive.is or one of its mirrors.