Still very cool though, even if it’s more of a ‘vibe’ thing than something more explicitly theoretical/philosophical or whatever.
A neighbour of mine is a children’s book editor, at one point I asked them what they were working on, and they told me about a book going to print that, in the big moments, has pages that unfold to match the size and intensity of the character’s emotions. I thought that was pretty awesome as well, really interesting use of the format.
Which, I dunno, thinking more as I’m typing this - in some ways what Coogler was doing there still fits in with a reading of Fanon, who of course was also a psychoanalyst.
Like, the big moments expanding the screen, becoming an even more visceral experience, while also, due to the ratio shift, inviting the viewer to think not just about what’s being shown but how - intentional or not, I think it does speak to something about the way we process things on multiple levels, how we create memories, how we create links to the past and future, what it means to be free … even if it only spoke to those things tangentially.
At the same time, this could all be motivated reasoning on my part though, protect my own ego via protecting my pet theory ;)
Ok so here’s my pitch:
So far I really like PieFed, and I’m hoping to set up some kind of online forum as an adjunct to an in-person discussion group in my city.
For now, I expect it will probably be non-federated, and invite-only.
Those things are already features in PieFed as far as I can tell (well, maybe not invite codes exactly, but using approved signups would work roughly the same way in this case).
Looking to the future though, here’s what I’d be super excited to see: the option to make some of the communites visible to non-logged-in visitors, and/or federatable with other instances, while still keeping most communities semi-private; that is, only visible to registered & logged-in local server accounts.
Bonus points if some of those semi-private communities could instead be even more private, i.e., posts only visible to approved members of that specific community. To be fair, maybe the chat functionality is good enough in those cases, I dunno :)
I’m guessing this is a big ask. However, this particular group may not need those functions near-term, so I’d be especially eager to spin up a PieFed server if I knew those kinds of things might be in the pipeline.
My other viable choice right now is Discourse, but like, it’s kinda corporate, and it’s really JavaScript-heavy, which to me is kind of an equity issue when it comes to data plans and user device speed etc.
Thanks!