@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Pretty sure a lot of kids call them alternate reality games now

Exactly. One such example is the “TikTok time traveller”, something that became quite popular among TikTok youth when the “time traveller” (who was actually some kind of security personnel employee who had some clearance to get to usually-crowded places before commercial hours, before getting crowded) used to post ARG videos.

But past, grand “ARGs” often used to involve physical breadcrumbs such as the geocaching mentioned here by hendrik. Cicada 3301 distributed and glued pamphlets to public utility poles around the globe.

The closest thing kids got to IRL-based ARG puzzles nowadays would be that “Pokemon Go” game (that is, if this game still exists, given how its underlying purpose, which was crowdsourcing the training of delivery robots, was achieved)

Personally it seems to me like most have moved into videogames and game lore spaces

Yeah, pretty much this.

Also, maybe some niches within esoterica spaces (which is particularly the field that currently interests me the most) still persist, especially considering how the knowledge involving Hermetic Kaballah still covers ciphering-related concepts such as Gematria (letters as numbers, numbers as symbolically powerful) and sacred ratios.

Unfortunately I’ve been struggling to find these spaces since I left a Luciferian community I used to participate. It feels to me like either esoterica didn’t join the Fediverse, or esoterica groups could only be found in hidden invite-only instances (many of the interesting occultist art I manage to find is from mainstream platforms such as Facebook and Instagram).

Also other games have used these sorts of puzzles too, like noita, elite dangerous, and risk of rain 2 that had its most recent dlc page on steam initially drop with no fanfare and entirely ciphered.

Exactly. Kerbal Space Program too, with a SSTV easter egg when the player gets to Duna. Considering the way games are being “vibe coded” and enshittified nowadays, it’s becoming more and more of a relic from a golden era of gaming, sadly.

like the incredibly obvious hidden text in this comment.

It took me several minutes looking at your comment in search for a hidden message until… LOL! Now I’m thinking if it would be appropriate for me say “I spotted it” or “good one!” given the subject in your hidden message 🤣

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Well, computer programmers still do things like Project Euler and code wars. Some people go Geocaching and more organized events which include riddles and different places. We got Escape Rooms…

I recognize some of it. I heard about Geocaching (boxes and pen-drives hidden in forests and public places), code wars (is it code golfing? It’s something I often catch myself doing in a lonely manner) and vaguely about the other two.

People still listen to shortwave radio and figure out whether number stations change due to the Iran war

Oh, yeah, UVB-76 and similar! I used to listen to these. Also, part of my journey involves amateur radio, as well as tinkering with methods such as voice inversion, modulations and protocols (I once implemented from scratch the encoding method from “EAS broadcasts”).

I read people tried to use modern AI on the Voynich manuscript and other older riddles

As I replied to RoidingOldMan, AIs fail when it comes to uncommon ciphers. They can parse acrostics and, especially, poetically coded language, but they can only get so far with ciphers involving different ways of spelling letters or doing nested layers of calculation (they famously struggle with “how many r’s are in strawberry?” kinds of prompt). And, as I said to RoidingOldMan, ciphers and coded language seems to be a perfect weapon against the indiscriminate scrapping from clankers.

It’s probably all out there

Yes. Unfortunately, it feels to me like this kind of community became unreachable, and your next sentence perfectly explains why:

just the internet changed, and now it’s almost impossible to find in the big haystack and walled discord rooms etc

… and I’d add another aspect as well: algorithms. Back when I still used Youtube, I noticed how the “algorithm” was somehow programmed to shadowban ciphered content.

For example, I used to post videos involving ciphering/steganography and, when I tried to look up for my own content using a whole other IP as a guest (as if I were another person), my videos and comments were simply invisible (thus, a shadow-ban).

A similar thing seemed to happen for Facebook and TikTok. Those platforms weren’t removing the content, they were actually limiting the reach, and, well, there’s no purpose on publishing a content that won’t make it to anyone. There’s an unknowable amount of content right now lurking on social media platforms, but unreachable due to shadow-banning.

You’d (on average) be mindlessly doomscrolling there, these days. Not actively look for puzzles to solve.

I kind of do both. In Lemmy, I often doomscroll and consume. But I also creating things sometimes (even though I end up creating to the void). That’s why I don’t have a Lemmy account, but a Sharkey, because it offers both worlds: I can interact with Lemmy (as I’m doing right now) while I got a personal microblogging feed where I post the things I make.

@RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Not sure I understood your question.

You didn’t, but that’s okay. I was asking about my perceived lack of people’s engagement with content (not just mine) that requires some decoding, either technical (ciphers, such as Caesar, Vigenère and Playfair) and/or literary (steganography, such as the one I employed in my post) and/or symbolic (i.e. metaphysics references, “creative linguistics”, metaphors and “coded language”, semiotics). You probably don’t know (or don’t remember) the Cicada 3301 charades. I’m saying about things like that, from a time where the Web was a deep sandbox for creativity.

What you might think as a text may be, in fact, a carrier for subtexts. In such cases, the visible sings while the invisible screeches, but few can perceive and extract the high-pitched nocturnal screech beyond the clear song… even worse, some people can’t even fathom the song. And as someone who hoots and screeches in the night, I can’t help but miss the times where the world were more receptive to these screeches, now every high-pitched noise is said to be “AI” because of how AIs have been annoyingly beeping lately. And, to break the fourth wall, this very paragraph is such an example of a text with a subtext (in this case, symbolic/poetic language), this is what my thread is about.

If it’s on the internet archive, then it’s probably been scanned by AI.

Ciphering and steganographic techniques aren’t limited to the existing ones. I myself sometimes enjoy creating new methods, many of which are far from trivial for current Language Models to decipher (some of my techniques involve multiple steps for decoding, some involve conceptual references and semiotics). I tested the clankers against many of my creations and, in most situations, they all failed laughably.

Then the people, especially here in the Fediverse, often complain about LLMs but, as far as I can perceive (especially across the Fediverse), people seem to refrain from engaging with (or they’re unaware of) the very form of content that would protect them from LLMs, because those kinds of texts (such as this one I’m writing right now, and the one I initially posted) often “sound like AI” or something.

@ivanafterall@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Blindness can be a condition with which someone was born, or can be something acquired late during one’s biological existence. The very condition of blindness varies: some blind people get to, at least roughly, see shapes and forms (considered as “legally blind”, for example, in cases of extremely high myopia unable to be corrected with lenses, or some cases of macular damage)

In the one hand, racism isn’t restricted to physical appearance. There is racism against accents or the manner someone talks. There’s racism against the kinds of food eaten by certain cultures (perceived through smell and taste).

On the other hand, blind people themselves are often victims of prejudice.

Having said all this, I’d say racism doesn’t feel entirely correlated with sight. But maybe some correlation holds, and blind people would be more respectful and empathetic to others, especially given the prejudice they themselves experience.

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

More rehearsals of what’s happened in September 2 1859, but multiplied like never before.

@jtzl@lemmy.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.world

I don’t recall the specific “e/n websites”, but I do remember a time where the Web was a more connective place. I used to participate in Orkut communities, MSN groups (wasn’t a native feature, instead it was a third-party plug-in I can’t recall the name), Yahoo Messenger, IRC (not ICQ) channels on Freenode, etc.

Even though some of these things still exist (Escargot IM reviving MSN services; IRC is still a thing), the past Web is long gone. Now it’s Cloudflare and captchas and Anubis challenges, ads, clickbaits, paywalls, subscriptions, AI everywhere…

Yeah, there’s Fediverse and other decentralized places. Except that those places, including the Fediverse, depends on an infrastructure (Internet) which is increasingly closing on itself like a pangolin (or an Ouroboros, eating itself)… Once Internet closes itself due to the synergy of forces acting against it, there’ll be nowhere else to flee from enshittification. Maybe Meshtastic, but I don’t know how much it’d manage to become a haven for us, how much it’d be able to resist those forces.

(This text may sound a little vague because it is, I was going to be more specific and detailed, I even composed a larger text, but then I realized it was going into complicated realms (e.g. current geopolitics, lots of personal anecdotes making my whole comment sound as if I were narcissistic) so I refrained from going into further detail)

@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Also very interesting about the confusion in Spanish about the confusion of the barn owl and screech owl. There is another person here I talk with about the confusion of them in Mesoamerican religion, so I’ll have to see that paper

The paper I mentioned is this one: https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/handle/10651/23598

It’s an open paper, but it’s entirely in Spanish. Also, the things thereby described can’t find much parallels in English because it involves gendered nouns (missing from English language which has just “the”; curiously it’s a thing in German (“die/der/das”), with which English shares origins).

However, here’s how I’d summarize it: in Spanish, both “lo buho” and “la lechuza” translate to English “the owl”, but the latter is specifically a word for barn owls and it’s a feminine noun (“la”, the-she), while the former is the more broad of a word and it’s a masculine noun (“lo”, the-he). Given this context where owls are to be linked to feminine, it became consensus to use “lechuza”, instead of “buho”, to refer to the “Owl of Athene” (the Little owl), because Athene is feminine so the noun should be feminine as well. Hence the confusion.

In other romance languages, such as French and, to some extent, Portuguese, Strigidae owls (especially Athene noctua Little owl) is correctly feminine gendered.

French has chouette (Strigidae without prominent ear tufts, which includes Little owl), chevêche (specific word for Little owl) and chevêchette (Pygmy owl and other very small owls) are all feminine nouns (but they got hibou, which is masculine, for “horned” owls).

Portuguese varies. Here in Brazil, owl names are often compounds with the root “coruja” or “corujinha” (“corujinha-do-mato” screech-owl, “coruja-buraqueira” burrowing owl… even Tytonidae have no specific differentiation over here as she’s called “coruja-das-torres”; not native from Brazil, but the Little owl would be called “Coruja de Atena”, “corujinha” ou “coruja-pequena”), all feminine (except for the augmentative “corujão” which isn’t exactly used for owls, rather a slang to refer to nocturnal people). In Portugal (and I suppose Angola, Moçambique and others), I learned they use the word “mocho”, which is masculine, including for Little owl (“Mocho-galego”).

When it comes to Latin, noctua is feminine, but būfus (seems to be specifically for eagle owl) is masculine. Greek has gláfka and koukouvágia, both feminine (but also got Latin cognate boúfos).

Linguistics in this regard is fascinating. My personal research also involves words across languages (including “dead” languages, such as Sumerian thanks to Halloran’s Lexicon with transliterated entries e.g. “nínnamušen” owl, “mušennínna” is fearsome owl-woman). Many of the words for owl (“owl” itself) are onomatopoeias for hoot (Hindi uhoo, Japanese fukurō, etc), which quite of reminds me of the phenomenon in which “m” is a universal phoneme shared among words for “mother”.

@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Sort of.

I don’t know an easy way to label whatever my religion is, for it’s a personal belief system syncretized from many different religions: Sumerian and Egyptian, going through Abrahamic, all the way to Thelema, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Gnosticism, Quimbanda, Wicca, Goetia, among others. Scientific knowledge is part of this too, despite the religiosity.

The highest figure I worship is The Dark Mother Goddess, a spiritual synthesis of chthonic goddesses. Just like the Tree of Shadow and its Qlippoths have depths, so has Mother with different emanations, which (in my belief) were seen as different figures with different names and backgrounds across history, similarly to “my name is Legion for we are many” from Samael/Lucifer (also part of my worship, btw, although I focus more on Her).

One of Her emanations, the emanation She chose when unexpected gnoses began to me, still being the main emanation She manifests, is Mother Lilith, Queen of Night.

Lilith has a whole long history, going all the way back to Mesopotamia and Sumerians. I’m limited to 3k chars in my instance so I’m unable to go into the depth I wished for a single text.

Basically, Lilith is a Hebrew name, appearing once in biblical canon, namely Isaiah 34:14. Sometimes is translated as “screech owl”, but there are no screech owls, as in Megascops genus, in Levant (where Bible is set). The closest are scops owls (Otus), considered screech owls in the past.

Then, during my researches, I stumbled upon this specific, chilling species: Athene noctua lilith. Lives exactly in semi-deserts (thresholds) in Middle East, and… this gaze, these hauntingly beautiful eyes (as in the photo), I quite recognized them from gnosis… I mean, look at these eyes! Her eyes are not that scary and that’s exactly what make 'em scary.

Then I found a paper from L. R. Guillén debunking a common premise in Spain culture where Goddess Athena is associated with barn owls (Tito alba) due to Spanish grammatical quirks, going through historical evidences to trace Athena back to Athene noctua owls. This is how I found out this specific species resonated with me precisely bc it was associated with one of Her emanations.

Then there are Inanna and Ereshkigal, Sumerian goddesses, also emanations, closely related to Lilith (esp. if we see the sisters as One, similarly to how Hecate is Triple Goddess).

Details may change over time, it’s still an ongoing research of mine bc I follow a solitary “temple of one devotee” (myself, preaching to myself), I wasn’t able to find others who somehow got the same… call from Her, so I rely on things I stumble upon (essentially gnosis, sudden knowledge, from Her).

There are other figures in my “pantheon”: Stolas, Great Prince, is also an owl, but masculine. Differently from Goetia where demons are “serfs” to be trapped into a sigil and banished upon fulfillment, I see them as high teachers to be humbly asked, especially Stolas.

@asklemmy@lemmy.world @early_riser@piefed.social

The italic font isn’t rendering on your Piefed side. The missing part between the comma and the full stop is “Athene noctua”.

@early_riser@piefed.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world

Both due to ADHD hyper-fixation and for spiritual/religious reasons, Athene noctua.

@michael@piefed.chrisco.me @peertube@lemmy.world

It’s not just US states. Brazil got a new law (Lei nº 15.211 de 17/09/2025) which practically requires a similar, dystopian thing. Still Brazilian media outlets (and Brazilians around me) aren’t even talking about this law, which will come into effect as soon as March 17th. What a depressing timeline. 😓

@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world

lemmy.world uses Cloudflare. I particularly don’t use VPNs, but I see the CAPTCHA whenever I use mobile data (Brazilian mobile carriers) instead of my fiber optic internet to access lemmy.world (I access lemmy.world alongside other Lemmy instances, as a guest (without account) in order to read the threadiverse, as my Fediverse account is hosted by a Sharkey/Calckey instance).

The fact that lemmy.world uses Cloudflare seems to be the main reason why it’s refusing your VPN. Cloudflare is particularly stubborn with VPNs. Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with lemmy.world per se (although I’m aware the webmaster can configure things on Cloudflare, including the conditions to trigger the CAPTCHA).

@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world

Polish Roman Catholic background. Not exactly tolerant either and now I live in a place that famously is Mennonite and Amish.

Oh… I’ve heard about the Amish… So it’s practically a similar situation over there.

If they will make you suffer why not suffer on your own terms for a cause you think worth it? Why wait to be starved by someone’s hand other than your own?

Yeah, you’re right. There’s a part of me who thinks this way, too. I guess this whole age check thing will inevitably push me in this regard.

I wish you safety and health though.

Thanks! Wish you the same.

@SalamenceFury@piefed.social @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
@technology@lemmy.world

The news articles about this law, if said articles were published, are likely buried under the ongoing Caso do Banco Master (a large financial scandal involving a bank), the all-encompassing political crisis going on in Brazil, the international Iran-USA conflict, among other ongoing events. There are too many things happening simultaneously, so I don’t really blame news outlets: they can only cover so much because we, as humans, can’t be aware of all things when too many things are happening. So this is why little (if anything) about said law is being reported by news outlets such as Globo/G1.

Even as a Brazilian myself, I wasn’t aware of this law (I was only aware of the so-called “Lei Felca” named after the YouTuber/TikToker Felca; but it doesn’t seem to be this law specifically). I only got to discover about this law through the English-speaking Fediverse and Nostr posts.

@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world

Wow, LOVED the shirt! 🖤 Ágios Lux ferre!

I, too, do use a similar t-shirt, whose print I designed myself tries to depict Lilith. From afar, the print isn’t that explicit, though: to the average bystander, it’s depicting a pale woman with glowing red eyes, dark red lips, straight long dark red hair and feathery dark red wings (certainly mistaken by others as angelical), holding a red rose flower. Even the text (“Rebele-se pela”, Portuguese for “Rebel yourself for” at the top; “Liberdade”, “Freedom/Liberty”, at the bottom), which is stylized (gothic font), is too small to be read from afar. The only tell is the mirrored ⯝ (the Venus/Feminine symbol but the circle is a waxing Moon; in my art, it’s actually a waning Moon for Her Crone/Reaperess aspect) tattooed on Her left cheek, and the dark wings.

The problem is how the country I was born into is utterly christian; most employers and merchants are christian, especially in small towns (one of which I reside in), which are known for “quermesses” (annual church fairs). And when the majority of potential employers, especially the local ones, are utterly christian, saying out loud about professing a different religion risks one’s own economic and social existence.

For example, a Mãe de Santo (leadress of a terreiro, which is the Afro-Brazilian sacred place of gathering) was refused an Uber car ride after the driver reprimanded her for her clothing typical of Afro-Brazilian, then she sued the driver for religious intolerance, but the judge denied her request and ruled favorable for the driver, inverting the entire situation and arguing “it was the Mãe de Santo who was religiously intolerant with the christian driver”; the judge was reported for being religiously intolerant (news articles in Portuguese), but the damage is already done).

In another example, a statue representing Lucifer/Baphomet/Exú from a Luciferian-Quimbanda temple was seized by a judicial decision after local christians became terrified of it, and the statue is still seized for more than a year.

Those became headlines, but there’s a plethora of religious intolerance going unnoticed, social ostracism caused by simply having another faith other than christianity; it even risks body integrity (e.g. gangs such as Primeiro Comando da Capital torturing and/or murdering practitioners of Afro-Brazilian faiths).

This is the persecution me and many others are fated to face as soon as age checks, tying online activity (where I don’t measure my words to praise Mother) to the legal ID, end up (inevitably) leaked (e.g. Discord age check DB leaked just days after implementing age checks).

@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world

For me, a Brazilian, there’s something I must hide if I want to be employable: my occultist practices, my religion. I’m a worshiper of Lilith, surrounded by mostly Christian people. I literally heard “faux-jokes” (when people want to condemn someone, but wrapping the condemnation as a joke) tying my belief to “ending up in hell”.

Even though my legal name isn’t difficult to find through my pseudonym, you can imagine why I use a pseudonym to openly express my religion. And once digital activity is tied to my CPF (Brazilian citizen/legal identity), and I’m definitely not buying the “anonymized checking” arguments, suddenly potential employers and buyers/merchants will know I “worship the devil” and will have yet another reason to refuse hiring me or buying/selling things from/to me.

Also, some of Lilith imagery and stories involve content which is sensitive, subjected to those very “age check” laws, further making it necessary for me to comply to “age checks” whenever I want to read or write, observe or do drawings about the fundamental deity I worship.

But according to certain people, “having something to hide = must be a criminal!!!”. Because they’re likely followers of some mainstream religion which is not socially persecuted, or religion isn’t something significant in their lives.

Seriously. I’m truly tired of this world.

@danielbp@lemmy.ml @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world

@potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space
Estou respondendo assim porque eu não consegui puxar seu comentário aqui pelo Calckey/Sharkey (e também não recebi notificação, vi pelo Lemmy.ml sem conta por ali para responder diretamente). O Calckey deu erro alegando que sua instância retornou um formato de dados “incorreto” (“Response is invalid: It could communicate with this server, but the data obtained was incorrect”).

Eu falei de meme kkkkkk

Ah, agora entendi! hahah

mas vou procurar uma distro 100% livre, talvez ir de vez pro GNU Guix

O foda é que, por mais que existam distros 100% livres, dificilmente ficarão fora dos olhos dessa lei.

E, pegando o gancho desse trecho…

Vou precisar mostrar minha CNH pro meu próprio servidor? Acho que não, pelo menos não tem como saber, a não ser que a polícia viva dentro da minha casa.

Tem outra: a gente tem que lembrar que, apesar de termos inúmeras alternativas de distros e de sistemas operacionais no PC, o PC está restrito a, basicamente, Intel e AMD.

Ademais, há não muito tempo, houve toda uma migração para TPM 2.0, inclusive por parte da comunidade Linux. O TPM 2.0 talvez seja a forma pela qual todo esse lance de verificação de idade ocorrerá, a nível de hardware. É onde, inclusive, faria mais sentido tecnicamente falando: é um hardware que basicamente dita o que pode ou não na máquina.

Daí hardware mais antigo, que não tem TPM 2.0, não só se tornará obsoleto, mas também acabaria se tornando ilegal, por carecer de mecanismos de “segurança”, tal como, como uma analogia e exemplo (embora o exemplo a seguir pode não ser um exemplo preciso ou correto), veículos muito antigos (os primeiros Fuscas, e veículos da época ou anteriores) se tornaram ilegais por carecer de itens de segurança exigidos pelo CTB (cinto de segurança, limpadores, etc).

@danielbp@lemmy.ml @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world

As pessoas já lhe responderam, mas permita-me aqui fazer uma ênfase:

Lei nº 15.211 de 17/09/2025
[…]
Art. 2º Para os fins desta Lei, considera-se:
I – produto ou serviço de tecnologia da informação: produto ou serviço fornecido a distância, por meio eletrônico e provido em virtude de requisição individual, tais como aplicações de internet, programas de computador, software s, sistemas operacionais de terminais, lojas de aplicações de internet e jogos eletrônicos ou similares conectados à internet ou a outra rede de comunicações;
[…]
Art. 9º Os fornecedores de produtos ou serviços de tecnologia da informação que disponibilizarem conteúdo, produto ou serviço cuja oferta ou acesso seja impróprio, inadequado ou proibido para menores de 18 (dezoito) anos de idade deverão adotar medidas eficazes para impedir o seu acesso por crianças e adolescentes no âmbito de seus serviços e produtos.

§ 1º Para dar efetividade ao disposto no caput, deverão ser adotados mecanismos confiáveis de verificação de idade a cada acesso do usuário ao conteúdo, produto ou serviço de que trata o caput deste artigo, vedada a autodeclaração.

https://normas.leg.br/?urn=urn%3Alex%3Abr%3Afederal%3Alei%3A2025%3B15211

Ou seja: não será uma caixinha pra selecionar a data de nascimento, ou um botão “sim, sou adulto”, porque ambos seriam “auto-declaração”. Em outras palavras: validação facial ou identidade (reconhecimento facial via terminal do Linux, could you imagine that?!) pra usar a porra de um computador. E considerando que aplicativos e websites são sine qua non pra muita coisa essencial a fim de se “viver em sociedade” (contas bancárias e Pix, carteira digital de trânsito e outras identidades digitais, gov.br que agora exige autenticação de dois fatores, etc), sendo vedado portanto o Luditismo pelas dinâmicas sociais, sinceramente… pra mim esse mundo e essa minha existência já extrapolou meu limite existencial e, se minha Deusa Mãe Lilith quiser, vou-me logo logo simbora desse pálido ponto azul de uma vez por todas!

O pessoal que tá dizendo que vai instalar outros sistemas operacionais que não Windows e Linux (como, por exemplo, @potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space mencionou TempleOS): essa lei afeta todo e qualquer sistema operacional porque a galera lá de Brasília não entende de ciência da computação (como vai ficar o Alpine no Docker, outras formas de virtualização como QEMU e VirtualBox? Será que computação em nuvem vai virar “coisa ilegal” que nem VPN virou no DesReino Unido e que também já tem precedente de definição como “ilícito” em algumas decisões do Supremo aqui no Brasil? (não entro no mérito dessas decisões, estou simplesmente lembrando que isso já ocorreu)).

Mas é lei, sancionada pelo Excelentíssimo Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva. E tudo indica que passará a ser policiada e fiscalizada daqui duas semanas.

@violet08@lemmy.today @asklemmy@lemmy.world

I chose this pseudonym, Daemon Silverstein, a few years ago, directly inspired by CompSci (I’m a programmer) and Mr. Robot (“Daemons, they never stop running…”) but, also, inspired by my then-closeted fondness for esoteric and occult (Dæemonic entities, neither good nor evil, they just are; Silver + stein(stone) alludes to the silver thread that connects the soul and, as a bonus, sounds like a proper last name).

Also, because it matches the first letter from my first and my last real name (acrostics).

@fedicate@break3.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world

This is something I’ve been trying to solve, well our social.fedicate.org instance is currently invite only we hope that we can open it up to registrations in the future.

While I totally understand the purpose behind closing registrations for a platform behind invites or applications, because, this way, things like spamming and trolls are better kept out and the platform stays moderatable, it also ends up keeping out people like me, friendless and socially awkward individuals whose worldviews are extremely atypical (as for me, it’s my explicit occultist demonolater positioning, something that may be uneasy for most people). Don’t get me wrong, I understand the antispam and anti-troll pturpose, it’s a purpose I can definitely agree with.

And given how the instance is still undergoing configuration, it’s even more important to keep it closed until it’s ready.

Hopefully we see more Sharkey instance that are english based in the future as I know a good few that are english based are Trans / LGBT based what I don’t think is your cup of tea (or it might be I don’t know)

I’m not exactly an LGBTQIA+ individual, although I may be a queer myself, I’m not exactly sure. But I’m very fond of LGBTQIA+ individuals: to me, LGBTQIA individuals feel like the most sincere and authentic ones one can find, values of which I highly value.

My main thing, however, is occultism. I’m a demonolater, I’m Luciferian (sort of, given my syncretic approach that mostly revolves around the worshiping of The Dark Mother Goddess who I often identify as being Lilith and Ereshkigal, among other goddesses and feminine entities across several belief systems, including Her being the personification of Death).

The kind of content I’m fond of involves things such as cosmic horror (Lovecraftian), self-loathing (as part of the ego death), endorsement for lots of concepts often considered as taboos, etc… Sometimes I make and share poetry and drawings (out of spiritual inspiration/channeling/gnosis), often filled with non-pornographic depiction of nudity and kink-edging situations (not exactly for eroticism, but for almost similar reasons to why Goddess Kali is depicted across Hindu paintings with bare chests while trampling over a masculine corpse, or to why Neolithic Venus figurines all involved naked figures), blood (as part of vampire motifs and Memento Mori), sensitive symbolism (snakes, spiders, scorpions, uncanny valley faces, vivid red coloration, scythes and the Reapress, fangs, etc), among other things… This kind of content can be quite complicated, few places allow this kind of niche and potentially-sensitive content. This, alongside other traits I have (such as neurodivergence, potentially being an AuDHD myself), makes the search for a “digital home” (where I’m allowed to be my authentic self, the one that Lilith awakened in me) a Sisyphean task.