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"Plan 9 from outer space"

Because Lemmy is like that movie: effort is done and done sincerely, but the result is not that good. Eventually, though, it might become a legend.

Minority report cos it's confusing AF at the start but makes sense by the end

Rogue One, overly dramatic comparison obviously but it is how I see the fediverse's role from the perspective of living within US authoritarian rule. The public side of the rebellion, the fediverse is the constellation of cities that provide a vibrant safe haven the empire can't completely control even though they are under occupation...

I mean the fediverse is so much more than my personal perceived lifering of digital conversations and news, it would have to be to be resilient to an authoritarian regime right? It is safer for me to speak truthfully here even about internal US politics because my words get so quickly tangled up in fediverse servers involving users from all over the world... the question of isolation and censorship just becomes a much bigger headache for everyone involved, the authoritarian regime I live under and the one you might too.

When we weave ideas together those ideas become innoculated in some small way to being divided by fascists, the effect is very very very slight but it is real.

Systems of oppression must create categories and enforced walls between them, literally, conceptually, metaphorically... and the architecture of the fediverse is fundamentally opposed to that, or at least is trying to be in every way it can (NOT bluesky or threads tho, they don't count).

The fediverse is about people spontaneously and then in arising coordination building what is necessary even through immense self doubt and crushing odds... I mean it has to be Rogue One right?