What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?
Why did you choose your Fediverse Instance, does it have a bigger meaning than it was a bigger instance or was it for a certain reason? Did you have to be on your instance you chose?
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Most (if not all) Misskey instances I could find were Japanese-speaking, and I don’t know Japanese. Something similar applies to most Sharkey instances, many I could find were Japanese-speaking.
There was also the factor “open for sign-ups”: at the time, calckey.world was among the few instances where registrations were open (most instances are closed for registration, requiring an invite or requiring the admin to manually set up a new account for someone). At the time, I was using Friendica, which often experienced (and still experiences) downtimes, and I was trying to find something similar to Friendica, or at least something as similar as possible.
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. We are currently settings things up to set things up correctly as the break3.social instance (the one this account users) is a business instance for projects and other stuff mainly worked on by @sam
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)
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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.
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.