Oftentimes religious beliefs can change someone’s worldviews, including but not limited to, environmental awareness. And I bring my own anecdotal example: since I became a syncretic Luciferian then a sudden Lilithian, I became quite eco-centric, as I got to understand Homo sapiens as just one among countless species instead of some “god’s exclusive toy” on this Pale Blue Dot. I also started to personally understand LGBTQIA+ values because, thanks to Lilith, I began discovering a part of me I wasn’t aware of, my queer me I’ve since became quite fond of (e.g. polishing my nails and letting them grow as a cisman-presenting person).
Those things would be unlikely to happen if I stayed on christianity (yes, I was christian in the far past and I deeply hate having been one) due to christian brainwashing that makes christians to “fear disobeying god” (now I want “god” to go pound sand).
There are religions and religions, faiths and faiths. You won’t get a coven of Wiccans knocking at your door at Monday (Moon day) 3AM “do you have 5 minutes to hear about our Mother Hekate?”, you won’t hear Luciferians screaming “Agios Lucifer, He’s coming back to reign” inside a bus/subway while you’re commuting, you won’t see a Thelemite lawmaker trying to shove Liber AL Vel Legis inside kindergarten and schools, you won’t see Goetians bringing a Solomon’s Magick Circle inside a hospital room to call upon Stolas to cure the patients with his herbal knowledge… Yet atheists tend to put all religious beliefs into the same box as abrahamic religions which have persecuted both you atheists and us pagans, instead of trying to make some rational distinction between different faiths…
It’s excellent! Just two ideas I’d suggest:
- Ability to search/list all indexed forums/communities belonging to specific instances/servers indexed by the catalog; for example, having a Instance picker alongside the “Platforms” dropdown. It’s not something that would fetch non-indexed instances, but rather something that would filter among the already-indexed ones.
- Speaking of “Platforms” dropdown, either some kind of general toggle/switch and/or some kind of “filter by this specific platform” so, for example, in order to search for a specific platform (e.g. Lemmy), one doesn’t need to toggle off the switches for all the other platforms (currently the search form is default “all”; as more platforms and derivatives get eventually added, toggling 'em all off just to filter one platform will eventually become a problem)
Also, just to confirm, is lemmy.eco.br (and to a certain extent bolha.forum which only lists one community while they do have many) not in the list because of their usage of Cloudflare (and Anubis in case of bolha.forum)?