I had to flip my phone sideways to even see more than just the up and down vote buttons at this point.
I know some history of the Lutheran church, specifically the dude it takes its name from. He basically saw the corruption of the current big church and didn't like it. He even got so mad, he wrote a big list of shit they were doing wrong and stapled that shit to the front door of the building so everyone could see how fucked up they were. Martin Luther was big on "the bible is the only thing direct from God" and he basically saw how Catholicism was adding their own lore and profiting off things like indulgences and wanted to put a stop to that shit.
I feel like this whole thing is simply just a clarification on what was already the case. Like, a baker can't just refuse a gay person for being gay. But they could refuse to make that gay person a huge dick shaped cake because, presumably, they would also refuse to make a huge dick shaped cake for a straight woman as well. The reason the customer wants the dick cake is irrelevant; merely that the cake is a dick.
Can't wait until I'm able to upload my consciousness directly to the Internet and just have that same dissociative feeling for eternity as a ghost in the machine.
What got me, growing up going to a Lutheran church, was the pastor telling us in catechism class that pretty much all the magic shit was merely metaphorical, along with how every church of every denomination I had ever gone to did things Jesus explicitly hated on in the bible. But especially churches of Catholicism with the gilded everything and statues and depictions of God and Jesus, the worship of Mary, and just the creepy nature of how they handle rituals like communion.
On the other hand, Baptist church is fun as fuck. Singing, dancing, better food at reception. It's like a party!
I feel like one has to be atheist, or at least agnostic, to really be looking at religion and theology for the interest of learning culture and history, because a religious person is not very likely to actually explore another faith because they already "know" that it is "wrong." And theology can tell you so much about people, culture, and how history has been shaped.
Not the first I've seen make this comparison, but I do feel that the conclusion of it being because of the lack of corporate bullshit is false. It feels like the old internet because much like the older internet, it's smaller.
I just know that if Lemmy reaches the same level of users as Reddit has/had just a month ago, it will more than likely have a lot of the same problems in terms of quality. Eternal September comes to everything, eventually. But that probably won't be for a while, so I'm just going to enjoy this until we get there.
"The world is binary. You're either a 1 or a 0. Alive or dead." - Gary Winston
Does the instance itself hold a record or database of content posted, too? Like, could a personal instance be used to archive your own posts and comments, even if made on another instance through your personal one's account? That right there would be motivation to play with it for me. Well, that and the "because I can" thing.
Hold up... Why are they not making them with the proper configuration though? I used to work at Tesla's Fremont plant and part of what I did required slightly different work depending on if the current thing on the line was supposed to be left or right-hand drive.
The final update message given out on RIF suggested Lemmy.World and so, here I am.
Does it matter?
As I have found with a few niches I've been looking for and only found communities on other instances, it may matter. I can see this post even though I am on Lemmy.World and not Lemmy.ml; but some of the other places I've wanted to look at are not federated with Lemmy.World or are semi-private and require manual authorization by an admin before you can do anything; and they can't authorize a user that doesn't interact with them somehow so I had to make a new account for those instances.
Maybe if we get fer enough down, reality will crumble like it used to do in Minecraft when nearing the original area colloquially known as "the end."