doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

i think there's something to be said about public discourse taking on a similar form. it sometimes feels like all discourses are trending towards "child-friendly" and "morally performative" version of themselves

something i've noticed about my experience attending different Protestant churches growing up is how it legitimately feels like the adults are mostly passing on memetic "sunday school" versions of the stories, and not at all interested in searching for meanings in the stories, but instead hoping to connect their memetic-sunday-school versions to current events.

growing up christian, i remember the teachings about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, about the other people Jesus was arrested and held with being "robbers" - i didn't realize some translations call the "robbers" "revolutionaries" and "insurrectionists" and "rebels" and "one who had taken part in an uprising

@argumento i was just testing and running into problems too - most of the methods i know seem not to be working hmmmmm

@argumento https://12ft.io/ this site works sometimes

@ashenwan this is coming out so well omgggg incredibleee

@fauxlosopher eating any bug sounds intuitively gross to me but im certain plenty actually taste fine!

@fauxlosopher fried caterpillar?

@ZiaNitori yesssss thats so cute!

@eris i've still been interested in figuring out how difficult it would be to make something that attaches activity-pub and AT protocols in one place. having "toots" post via both protocols at once on one account

among us and its clones typically don't have anywhere near the same tension this game does. the necessity of voice chat and the inclusion of non-slackers to have slacker tasks is so fun

dale and dawson is genuinely one of the most fun games of its kind

@LiquidParasyte luckily copies of books magically fall into my hands, its great.

@lethe yeah, i guess i'm looking for it to look twitter-like, which is definitely corporatey

@lethe i have not considered that because i don't like navigating most pleroma/akkoma instances i see. i know it's not *that* different but that was genuinely my thought process. along with "hometown will probably be easier to upgrade into than starting from scratch" - but i'm gonna start from scratch anyways, probably, soooooo that's fairly moot lmao

i want to interact with people at "home" not have it clouded out by publications and info-bots and activism. it would be so nice to look at the curated collection of each of those on their own.

the main 2 features i want that hometown has are "local-only posts" and lists that don't need you to follow the person on your list

@ashenwan thank you!!! i'm trying as we speak

@aurelia look last time i fucked up on the "upgrade to a newer base masto version" step, i didn't even get to the "try hometown" step yet

so i really need to update this instance; i want to move us from the base masto to a hometown instance, but the last time i tried i broke everything.

i'm thinking what i should do is try to install hometown fresh and then import the data from here into *that* database. probably still at this url? not entirely sure if that's a reasonable route but i should probably work on that today.