What Reddit did 2 years ago proves that most people aren’t going to switch to alternatives just because it’s “the right thing”. They only do that when they want or need something from the new platform. If we want people to come to Lemmy, Matrix, and whatnot else, we have to make them into appealing alternatives both in functionality and content.

There are some war-themed ones, so realistic MMORPGs definitely exist. Sword Art Online however is fictional in the sense it’s not an actual released game. It’s made up as the central element of a light novel series of the same title, later adapted into a popular anime.