<2022-11-09T02:38:18.000Z> mute: how do you know dennis cooper?
<2022-11-09T03:14:52.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: just familiar with some of his writings and his blog, been meaning to read his books for a while, i looked at some of his animated gif stories on kiddiepunk
<2022-11-09T21:02:15.000Z> mute: oh interesting. most people ik who know him found him through the deerhunter song
<2022-11-09T21:18:35.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: i didnt know about a deerhunter song about him but i only really listened to cryptographs/flourescent grey
<2022-11-09T21:20:39.000Z> mute: pantograph-punch.com/posts/dennis-cooper-deerhunter-helicopter
<2022-11-10T13:39:47.000Z> mute: Sorry if it's rude to ask, but are you into Gore or Guro? I got that inclination from a few pictures you'd posted.
<2022-11-10T18:00:19.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: i'm more into guro than gore, but i do v much like guro yeah! i have a few really nice editions of shintaro kago comics from https://hollow-press.net/
<2022-11-12T01:24:20.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: randomly remembered the really good villalobos track that samples columbine interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDq-Lo6SYxE
<2022-11-12T20:02:24.000Z> mute: I'm so glad, I've only met a few other people who are really into that. Shintaro kago is cool, his stuff always makes me think of psych art. Never seen this website before, ty. I got a signed Takato Yamamoto book from a similar site though! I really love Hiroaki Samura's Love of the Brute, which I'd rec if you don't know it already. And the other stuff Lacryboy posts on baraag is great, like the way he draws disemboweled characters a lot.
<2022-11-12T20:02:40.000Z> mute: Columbine samples are sick, BONES did a whole album about it and filmed a music vid there.
<2022-11-12T20:03:01.000Z> mute: youtube.com/watch?v=uPnk8HhLFmU
<2022-11-12T20:03:11.000Z> mute: TheCafeteria is the best song on that project tho, imo
<2022-11-12T20:28:28.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: so fucking good!!! i haven't listened to bones in ages, i should put it on again. was also listening to dark world earlier, i dunno how well known they are outside of new england, but gods wisdom is so next level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hpgQq7_HNg
<2022-11-12T20:30:43.000Z> mute: hahaha yeah looks like Mass
<2022-11-12T20:33:40.000Z> mute: I swear this is what sematary's trying to be.
<2022-11-12T20:39:28.000Z> mute: I'm somewhat surprised I don't know these guys but this shit is so good. the noise sampling sounds so random at first but it really works.
<2022-11-12T20:43:51.000Z> mute: Also if you're from around their you should check out RRRecords in Lowell, it's awesome.
<2022-11-12T20:44:05.000Z> mute: there*
<2022-11-12T21:10:16.000Z> mute: ++ before I signed off, I was going to ask, is it that common that people will avoid talking to me because I'm on poast?
<2022-11-12T21:53:47.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: i'm from nh and went to school in boston! was living in nyc for a while, did rrrecords have a storefront??
<2022-11-12T21:53:55.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: i know weirdo records are out there
<2022-11-12T21:53:58.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: er
<2022-11-12T21:54:07.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: *i miss weirdo records
<2022-11-12T21:54:12.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: really really really amazing music store
<2022-11-12T21:55:33.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: > ++ before I signed off, I was going to ask, is it that common that people will avoid talking to me because I'm on poast?a lot of them can't, poast is the instance that's the most defederated for a variety of reasons. you maybe saw me trying to introduce you to a friend that couldn't talk to you - it wasn't because he didn't want to, but because he was unable to
<2022-11-12T21:56:09.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: you can see all the blocks here https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=poa.st
<2022-11-13T14:41:03.000Z> mute: I'm from Boston and went to school in Boston! but I spent a few periods of my childhood in NH. RRRecords has a storefront in Lowell, they do Merzbow releases as a label, etc. Prurient did noise shows there before. My friend got his Hanatarash vinyl there. IDK weirdo records!
<2022-11-13T14:44:54.000Z> mute: Hahaha that explains a lot. Oh my god this list lmao. I did see you talking to him but I didn't want to interject and perhaps create an awkward situation between you and your friend.
<2022-11-13T14:45:12.000Z> mute: Forgive my tech retardation, but how do I circumvent this? Just by moving to a different node?
<2022-11-13T16:53:45.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: yeah weirdo and the person who ran it was legendary https://www.furious.com/perfect/weirdorecords.html
<2022-11-13T17:00:38.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: > Forgive my tech retardation, but how do I circumvent this? Just by moving to a different node?yeah - i have no problem with poa.st or anyone, i don't wanna defederate from any servers because there are cool people everywhere, so im keeping it so that anyone can send us messagesyou can move or some people have alts in diff places to get around defederation. there's basically nowhere that isn't blocked by anyone, because 'not blocking anyone' is a blockable offense for some people 
<2022-11-13T17:03:39.000Z> mute: oh boy, deeplore.
<2022-11-13T17:04:56.000Z> mute: also I see, and I guess that makes sense how nowhere is totally unblocked. thanks
<2022-11-13T17:05:23.000Z> mute: for not blocking, I have met lots of cool people through you and and you're account!
<2022-11-13T17:05:30.000Z> mute: your*
<2022-11-13T17:05:38.000Z> mute: holy shit what is with me today
<2022-11-13T17:12:22.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: I can give you an invite on here if you want, i basically operate on a rule of talking to whoever wants to talk to me and always trying to be friendly so lots of different kinds of people show up which is how I like it 
<2022-11-13T17:13:05.000Z> mute: Sure that sounds cool
<2022-11-13T17:13:30.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: not saying anyone else needs to do it I just think its the most interesting way to be on here 
<2022-11-13T17:14:11.000Z> mute: No I agree with you
<2022-11-13T17:14:23.000Z> mute: I don't think you need to but I do think you're missing out otherwise
<2022-11-13T17:15:17.000Z> mute: what does switching instances actually entail as far as user experience goes? If you don't want to spoon feed me more fedi info I can just learn to google but I had chosen this instance before because it seemed friendly to tech-semi-literates.
<2022-11-13T17:16:38.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: https://refusal.biz/registration/X8symq_Vmg-UH3X6TS-a-RTQSw4wwuKf-qfIWGq4dwI= 
<2022-11-13T17:18:17.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: ours is prob less nice than poa.st and we have a diff frontend, I fixed the database yesterday from a dumb issue which broke some parts of the frontend which im gonna fix today 
<2022-11-13T17:18:48.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: we do have the some frontend available that poa.st does in theory but it might be broken rn 
<2022-11-13T17:20:15.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: what it entails prob depends on how you use it, if you miss soapbox you can def use the like official frontend or whatever app you want to use and log in to our instance from it (and if it doesn't work for some reason I'll figure out how to fix it) 
<2022-11-13T17:22:44.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: https://fe.soapbox.pub/ here's the official one you should be able to point anywhere 
<2022-11-13T17:36:17.000Z> mute: Okay, I'll try to set that up then. Also, if I just made my own instance wouldn't that mean I have no blocks and I'm blocked by nobody? Would it be prohibitively difficult to just make my own instance so I can federate with whoever I want? or am I misunderstanding?
<2022-11-13T17:56:18.000Z> mute: I don't dislike this UI at all! I have to ask though, what are aliases?
<2022-11-13T18:07:07.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: huh im not sure actually, re: aliases, where do you see it
<2022-11-13T18:14:12.000Z> mute: Settings -> Security -> Account Aliases
<2022-11-13T18:19:32.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: > Okay, I'll try to set that up then. Also, if I just made my own instance wouldn't that mean I have no blocks and I'm blocked by nobody? Would it be prohibitively difficult to just make my own instance so I can federate with whoever I want? or am I misunderstanding?hm what's your skill level? have you run a webserver before? it's def not prohibitively difficult, it's been a kind of big project for me but that's because i'm doing something unusual with it (running on openbsd)if youre intending to run pleroma, a lot of people are reporting that there's heavy load lately. i'm seeing it too and working on addressing it, and am not sure how much of it is my fault and how much is the network growing so much lately
<2022-11-13T19:10:24.000Z> mute: honestly I'm pretty low skill level. and definitely not. Closest thing I've ever done is running my own websites and shit. I do see that someone made a service that holds your hand through the whole process if you don't have the skills though.
<2022-11-13T19:10:37.000Z> mute: how much time does it take out of your day on average?
<2022-11-13T20:08:37.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: yeah i know graf on poa.st advertises a number of services that do this, i haven't looked into them so i dont really know how they operateit would be cool if there was like an equivalent of this for fedi though https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
<2022-11-14T00:56:24.000Z> mute: Yeah I was searching for something like that earlier.
<2022-11-14T02:03:41.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: actually, it looks like this might be exactly that if you download the source https://fediverse.express/
<2022-11-14T02:04:14.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: oh wait maybe not
<2022-11-14T02:05:49.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: but it looks like it does have ansible playbooks so i wonder if you could just combine that with the part of algo that coordinates the scripts
<2022-11-14T02:05:56.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: might look at it in a bit
<2022-11-14T02:06:35.000Z> rats@refusal.biz: a lot of projects but if this is set up well it might be straightforward
<2022-11-14T18:02:50.000Z> mute: thank you I will check it out.