@MxVerda but, yeah, I do not have the legacy of the oral tradition that defined greco roman theology. I must admit my version is not their own. But I do believe that gods are things we worship and I find polytheistic pantheons are good for being more specific about what you worship than insisting, for instance, I worship the one God of everything Good so I do Evil in His name. I worship mercury, always have, he called me to travel and tell people about important stuff.

@MxVerda these are reasons I am hellenistic actually

@MxVerda when I became a neopagan there was a lot of self reflection about, well, I spend my life travelling around delivering messages, I have been known to help people heal, I can be a bit of a scamp.

And all of the sudden it was just, goddammit, youre devoted to mercury arent you?

@kelson @skinnylatte i came here to say this because the only other option was to have an aneurysm

@alice its the third place for a reason. I am, once again, concerned about cishet men

@OliviaVespera yeah, its an open server sort of problem. There are mod teams I envy, I often think to myself "this stuff doesnt happen on jorts.horse" but also the fact that it is an intro server and its a good intro server, it is a server I have often advised people who dont use fedi to join, thats another element to why its a tough server to moderate.

The Fedizine still gets passed around, it tells random people to join kolektiva and it shows. But thats still important work its just hard. I dont think they are looking for mods right now. I doubt jorts.horse or dice.camp are either.

And so thats where I am, I have basic faith in the moderator teams on like 5 servers but when mastodon.social is understaffed it doesnt bother me because I would never imagine mastodon.social even has actual moderators.

@OliviaVespera so, I find that on Mastodon every 2 months or so there is a recurring argument that goes along the lines of "its transphobic to call me racist vs. Its racist to call me transphobic" and that is an argument that I want to steer well clear of every time it happens.

@OliviaVespera yeah, I see your point. I simply made a joke about instance culture. I have been a mod for forums and facebook groups and stuff, it isnt that I dont know how to moderate online communities and there are servers I would defend if they called for my aid but the idea of wading through anarchist drama all day fills me with terror

@OliviaVespera I like the people who do mod kolektiva, I do not agree with every decision and sometimes I mention it but they do their best. Whenever the server says they have an opening in the team I think "I would rather be burned on a pyre."

@OliviaVespera I could imagine trying to moderate dice.camp but I dont think it would be fun. The idea of trying to moderate kolektiva sounds to me like the culmination of every nightmare I ever had.