confluence

This sounds a lot like my own journey. Almost identical!

Hijacking The Brain and Connecting With The Natural Self (without magical thinking or supernatural beliefs of any kind)

A whisper inside betrays an illusion

Imputed identity fails to erase

New settings bring a certain confusion

I do not belong in this place

My mind wants to go home

Body reacting to novel, to new

Hiding from strange seed and spore

Protected stranger of blood and sinew

Haunted by memories of before

My bones want to go home

In me flows the blood of oppressors

Looking for a city on a hill

Now finding the saints as transgressors

Still touching the blood they did spill

My blood wants to go home

I want it all back—the ancient, the myths

I hear the Voice behind my ribs

My fingers itch to touch my megaliths

To feel history beyond the fibs

My heart wants to go home

If home is where heart is, mine isn't here

It isn't anywhere the Church is at rule

Holy men spoiled and ruled through fear

The Voice hushed by soldier and fool

My spirit wants to go home

From cypress and swamp, the little Voice calls

A brotherhood born of adversity

For the same Voice in me I hear from them all

Is silenced too in hopes of a city

May we all find our way home

EDIT: We’re going to attempt to organize a larger logo and spread the word further around various Fediverse services. I get that a lot of y’all are opposed to visiting over there. I'm pissed too, which is why I spent a lot of my day helping write “Fuck Spez.” I don’t think we’re going to contribute to Reddit’s revenue much, and I think at the very least sending a VERY public message that the Fediverse is here is a good thing.

What do y'all think about these books and authors?

I may be biased as an "exvangelical," because they helped me transition out of that fucked up worldview and rebuild another (along science-honoring lines) but I'm curious to hear other opinions.

Jerboaaalllrughty then.

We really shouldn't take this Meta thing lightly.

They could offer the slickest interface and keep people locked to their friends. That interface can use protocols that make it difficult/impossible for non-Threads instances to play ball (ooh this cool new feature is only available through the Threads app; Oh, mybasement.world.ml.xyz can't read that content). There are many ways to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, we've seen Meta do it before (e.g. XMPP), and I'm sure we haven't even thought of some ways Threads could EEE.

I think defederation from Meta's instances is probably our only option to protect what we have.

Welcome, to all of you trudging into Lemmy with mud on your boots. I just wanted to remind you real quick that Reddit isn't the C Suite at Reddit, Inc.

It's us.

It's always been us.

So gather by the fire at the hearth, warm your fingers and toes, and let's keep being us.

Except the guy with two broken arms. Don't get up until you've fully healed. We'll check on you from time to time.

Reddit never opened its chat for third party apps, and is now stripping those apps further. Would anyone else appreciate it if some Lemmy clients would include a Matrix integration for chat?