this will be the highest effort shitpost of my entire fediverse career
it is slowly dawning on me that this mod will take weeks of work. maybe even months. However, I have the rest of quarantine to go, this is my job now.
so far I've got
- a mastodon logo for .social
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- a snout (for snouts.online)
- the yiff.life hex
- the goat of hellsite.site
- the radtown 
- pawprint for whomst.dog
- selontheweb as representative symbol of godforsaken.website
- a mate gourd for myasstodon
- an efdn.club logo
I need more symbols! @ me a symbol if your instance isn't yet represented and I'll get it in there
emojis work well for this, so if your instance has an emoji you think represents it, do @ me it
note to self: change the language file such that the "Leave Federation" button says "Defederate" instead
can't really think of any traits for mastodon.socialites besides repugnant.
I take that back. I went for Fleeting, Nomadic, and Rapid Breeders
if I had a dataset of fursona names I could make a namelist
If I was REALLY talented, I could make Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit into respective endgame crisis
Reddit would be the scourge, for obvious reasons. and Twitter would be the robot uprising, because algorithm. Facebook or Google would be the interdimensional invasion.
it would be too easy to make a jamelist (jorts namelist)
it's been like 12 hours and I'm still going, but I need MORE. send me your emojis, send me your ideas and your huddled masses.
I've got 22 instances represented so far. In total I'd like to have like, at least 50 by the end of this. But, it's time to get some gameplay done, look for some bugs.
so far witches.live is the only fanatical purifier in the galaxy
ah yes, the eternal art art of hours upon hours of bughunting and troubleshooting. This circus is the closest I'll ever get to actual hacking, so I better try to enjoy it.
what is Stellaris but a series of text documents interwoven by code spaghetti
what if I literally replaced all of the AI personalities with various fedifolk tropes, and all of their dialogue with actual assorted mastodon posts
witches.live and playvicious.social have spawned next to each other 3 times in a row. this isn't hardcoded I swear
it occurs to me that I really need to add some bitcoin nonsense and tech instances for it to really feel like the fediverse.
alright I'm gonna take a small break from adding instances and their associated symbols to begin work on personalities and namelists
note to self: rename Influence to Clout
I'm pleased to announce that all food has been replaced with teeth, effective immediately
I'm probably going to make the influence/food conversion into its own mod, and the emblems into its own mod and put them in a fediverse collection. That way people can choose to just play with a specific emblem from the fedi without necessarily also having to eat teeth
It's up!!! (Just the emblems for now, other stuff later) Go download it!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2065020222
Update!! Version 1.1 of the Fediverse Emblems mod is now. It is updated for use with Stellaris 2.7, and has had several instance emblems added. Additionally, the emblems are now split up into two groups, for ease of selection.
speaking the words out loud: "mastodon-stellaris ethics wheel" feels like casting an eldritch spell, it curls the air in an unholy way
if I add new ones, it would likely compete with less mods, however it will be far more work to figure out and do. If I'm just replacing existing ones, it'll probably be far easier.
if I continue down the path of replacing the ethics wheel, only pain will await me in the days to come
see but these symbols were the easy ones
how in the world will I represent earnestposting vs shitposting
@ me your mastodon ethics dichotomy ideas
Tankie <---> Anarchism (authoritarian/egalitarian)
Horny <---> Chaste (xenophile/xenophobe)
Irony <---> Uwu (militarism/pacifism)
Theory <---> Techy (spiritualist/materialist)
Themed (gestalt consciousness)
maybe I should replace energy credits and minerals with favs and boosts
@starwall the what!!
@anarchiv the necroids species and ship pack, which I expect to be releasing sometime before Halloween
@starwall I haven't checked PDX enough lately. This sounds fun
@ishiku (those changes are relegated to the Fediverse Icon Conversion mod)
@starwall hey, those were my favourite features
@anarchiv (they were not removed, just added to a different mod, just in case someone only wanted to play with the emblems for some reason)
@starwall Ah! I'm relieved
@starwall this is gods patch notes for earth
@starwall why are you still making it
@ohtorifightclub I don't know, I am possessed by it
@starwall heart and iron bar? (irony poisoning)
@ItsMorgan that's actually pretty good...
@starwall im an incredibly clever person
@starwall ernest p worril and a turrd
@starwall just had he thought that by the time you finish this mod, all he instances it mentions could be long since dead.
@starwall smiley face vs smiley face with the groucho glasses/nose/mustache combo
@starwall horny/theory??? my original thought was theory/mysticism but several accounts i know mix those up
@ItsMorgan theory vs techy?
@starwall that sounds very good to me actually
@ItsMorgan a great replacement for the spiritualist vs materialist dichotomy
@starwall @ItsMorgan horny/chaste could be a different axis
@esvrld @ItsMorgan horny/chaste is a very good axis idea
@starwall @ItsMorgan discourse/comfy as a replacement for militarist/pacifist
NSFW
@esvrld @ItsMorgan @starwall I mean, if you're into enforced chastity, then horny/chaste is frustratingly the same thing.
@starwall I will not be doing this but thanks for the offer
@starwall discourse vs simply vibing
@lemoncarrots @starwall seconding this
it's the clearest dichotomy after ironic(or shitpost)/earnest
@starwall I hate this but I also hate that it's not wrong
@starwall tag urself im horny/irony
@starwall hoirony, if you will
@starwall faves = ec, boosts = minerals
@starseeker on radtown the colors roughly match as well
@starseeker @starwall for a brief moment i thought "faves" were a resource in the canon game and the proposal was to replace them with eye contact
keysmash
@carcinopithecus @starwall asjdfkasf
@starwall i think favs = energy and boosts = minerals
@esvrld then it is decided
@starwall Influence should be called Clout
@stolas already done :3
@starwall Nevermind then lol
@starwall Horny emblem needs to be 🍆
the very INSTANT the necroids pack comes out I am making a resurrected bofa.lol empire