I have noticed lately that I have replies to posts and comments, but no notification.

I noticed this post has 8 comments but I have no notifications, upon looking 1 is a top level comment and the rest are replies to that.

I have checked using Mlem, Blorp, and old.slrpnk none show a notification for that comment.

There have been others over the past week or so, this is just the first I investigated.

Hi, whenever I paste a Lemmy link with a funny pic into a friend's chat and then remember to actually click the link I remember that the Lemmy web-frontend kinda hates images (as apposed to most apps) and the friend needs to click the tiiiiinsy tiny image in the upper right corner to see it.

Is there a way around that (aside from pasting / linking the image directly)?

I posted this:

https://thelemmy.club/post/56740107

It should be on my profile page, but it is not. Yet on that page directly, outside slrpnk, the post is there. Visiting https://slrpnk.net/c/AskReddit@thelemmy.club is possible but shows no posts.

Update

The original problem (mentioned above) was due to a block I had on thelemmy.club as they were previously Cloudflare. But a new problem has emerged: I cannot see comments in this thread herein.

Update 2: it’s a defect in the language settings

Someone tagged their post as “français”. That caused me to not receive a notification of their response to me. So I altered my settings. I had nothing selected for language. I changed my language to “unspecified” (literally). That fixed that problem, so I could then see the notification from the Francophone.

But then I could no longer see local posts with no language tags. WTF? Obviously it’s a defect. I had to deselect the language selection of “unspecified” in order to see the comments in this thread. But of course now I will not receive notifications of replies by Francophones.

Not sure that this is the place to generally chat, but feck the police. Froggie's got warts anyway, what's he gonna do?

Anyway, I just wanted to thank whoever made this art on the canvas a while back

Beneath the extensive geology of memes that occupy my brain, lies an introspective and somewhat sensitive persona. I'm really disillusioned with a lot that goes on in the world, and frustrated that we don't do better as humans. All the negativity out there, blatant disregard for our environment, and complete lack of comprehension on environmental cumulative effects tends to give me a dour outlook on the future.

Hell, COVID was a perfect analogue for how humanity responds to existential threats. There, we had people literally dropping dead, not the slow, implacable deconstruction of our environment, and we barely got our act together, and not without much squabbling, scheming and stepping on the necks of others. It's no wonder I'm borderline a doomer.

And yet, a simple message of "Hope is rebellion" resonated with me. At first, it was just a little meme that my brain picked up and didn't know where to store. I kept mentally turning it over in my hands and thinking about where to put it. hmm, that shelf over there, for now. And it's sat there, on its little shelf in my mental kitchen next to the coffee pot. When I find myself wondering what the point of a lot of stuff, or find myself in a tough situation (or I'm helping someone in one), I tend to look up at the shelf, and see the message: hope is rebellion

this little painted rock with its inspiring message has wormed its way into my brain, and changed the way I think - or perhaps finally put into words my innately stubborn nature. I don't back down easily. I have a knack for executing daunting tasks. I enjoy type II fun. Heck, I even don't mind Type III fun (which is not fun at all). All of that is enduring when all seems stack against you. Hoping, and rebelling against a seemingly dire situation. You may not be able to fix or solve the problem, but then again, global problems like those going on in our environment can't be fixed by one person - but you can refuse to let it beat you. You can continue to hope. You can keep looking for opportunities to make a difference, and to me, that's the essence of solar punk.

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !fixing@slrpnk.net - Celebrating/talking about repairing stuff, the right to repair stuff, and the intersection of tech and solarpunk ideals.
• !selfhosting@slrpnk.net - Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
• !reclamation@slrpnk.net - A place to discuss and learn about the restoration of disturbed lands to desirable end land uses

📸 Meta Post Image: Asante-Akim Center for Non-Motorized Transport 🎞️

People of rural Ghana organized a school for teaching how to chop, weld, and re-assemble bicycles to better meet the needs of rural Africa. The Asante-Akim Center for Non-Motorized Transport takes its inpiration from punk bike chopping groups in the United States and Europe.

These bikes not only look cool, but are better suited to the poor roads and Jungle environment. Photo from ratbikes.org.

🌏 World Carfree Day / In town, without my car! Events September 21-28 🚴

World Car-Free day is Tuesday September 22nd. At SLRPNK we'd like to draw a little more attention to this holiday, and see it celebrated even more widely and internationally. Like all good holidays, it has its roots in civil disobedience.

In 1961, Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities. She was one of the organizers of demonstrations that saved a popular public park in New York City from being turned into more road for cars. She was inspired by both the Garden City and City Beautiful movements before her, and her book and methods were internationally influential.

The Netherlands had seen the precursor to car-free days as a response to oil price shocks during the Suez Crisis, and anti-car sentiment has festered due to speeding vehicles in narrow city streets. Late one night in 1968, neighbors in Groningen took pickaxes and shovels to sections of their street to create intentional barriers that cars had to slow to navigate around. Despite official resistance, the civil disobedience movement to create "Woonerfs" or "Living Streets" spread, and in 1972 the first official Woonerf was constructed in Delft.

The Dutch lead the way in re-envisioning cities without cars through the 1970s, but the idea became internationally popular. People began organizing yearly car-free days, with the intention to explore other ways of organizing city life without the use of personal motor vehicles. Car-free days and automobile restraint in Urban planning goes hand in hand.

In one famous case in Jakarta, Indonesia, Car-free day is a weekly event. On Sunday mornings, several streets into the city are barred from use by traffic. They become popular paths for pedestrians and cyclists who come to the city for Sunday events. Initially it was planned to occur only 3 times a year in 2007, but as interest and infrastructure around the event grew, it became a weekly event only 5 years later. The streets used for this purpose have become more pedestrian-friendly as their use by pedestrians grew.

The most popular day for yearly Car-free days is September 22nd. In french-speaking countries, it is called "En ville, sans ma voiture" or "In town, without my car" - but the concept is the same. What ever the concept is called in your locality, we would like to boost it here as a Solarpunk holiday. Check out related communities for this event:

• !urbanism@slrpnk.net
• !utilitycycling@slrpnk.net
• !publictransport@slrpnk.net
• !TacticalUrbanism@slrpnk.net

⛔️ Defederation with lemmy.devr.cc ⛔️

lemmy.devr.cc was abandoned by its admin and allowed for open sign-ups (no manual review of new applicants), resulting in it being used by advertiser bots and others posting illegal material, necessitating us defederating from it. As it's a small instance with no active communities, the defederation is unlikely to effect any of our users.

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 68.72€/month in donations from 13 people, which is covering most of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor (we are currently looking for an alternative for this as the Etherpad project has started to use LLMs for development quite heavily).

I'm looking to start a Mastodon co-op, in the form of a Mastodon instance. I want to eventually turn it into a solarpunk nonprofit. Most of my working life has been in the nonprofit sector, and I have a lot of leadership experience from it - from starting a Jack.org chapter in my city to being elected Co-Chair of the Expert Panel for a local CBYF chapter.

I want it to be a working cooperative, eventually hosting things like solarpunk publications, skill-share workshops, and so, so much more. I want it to be a digital space where solarpunks can gather, but in a way that actually makes a difference. The governance for the instance will be a council of 5-7 people, so it will be a sociocratic leadership where I am not the only one in charge, and all major changes must be discussed beforehand in a group of qualified individuals, to ensure that the coop represents everyone, not just the likes of any one person. (Council membership criteria includes activity within the community, never money, so that everyone has an equal chance, regardless of financial status. The only thing required is to be an active and upstanding member of the community.)

The planned launch is January 1st, 2027, so this is genuinely pre-launch.

The main purpose of this post is to ask: what would you want to see in a coop like this? What would draw you to it, and make it feel like a real community?

if you're interested, you can find this project on various platforms, though the final project will be a Mastodon instance: linksta.cc/@solarpunkgarden

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !tidalpunk@slrpnk.net - A community to discuss news about our oceans & seas, marine conservation, sustainable aquatic tech, and anything related to Tidalpunk - the ocean-centric subgenre of Solarpunk.
• !detrashed@slrpnk.net - For community cleanups, magnet fishing hauls, tools, technologies, news, and more!
• !alt_bike@slrpnk.net - A place to discuss alternative cycling, bike parts, and showing off your unique style. The weirder the better!

📸 Meta Post Image 🎞️

66 Signs of Neon was a traveling exhibit of works of assemblage from the ruins of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, California. The riots, incited on August 11th by police brutality towards a black man and his mother, were the culmination of years of racial discrimination, police abuse, housing segregation, and economic injustice. The violence lasted 6 days and the California National Guard was mobilized to contain the rebellion, killing 34 people. After the fires smouldered, $40 million ($425 million adjusted for inflation) in property had been destroyed.

Headed by Noah Purifoy, the artists collected tons of debris from the wreckage of demolished buildings and re-assembled it. The resulting sculpture memorialized as well as communicated and interpreted the event to a wider audience.

The assemblage of junk illustrated for the artists the imposition of order on disorder, the creation of beauty from ugliness. Its analog was the essence of communication…The reason for being in our universe is to establish communication with others, one to one. And communication is not possible without the establishment of equality, one to one.

-- From the catalog “Junk Art, 66 Signs of Neon”.

From 1966 and 1971, the exhibit educated, awed, and inspired people. It began as a small event at a local High School, then traveled to many California state universities before traveling throughout the United States and finally Internationally.

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, "a riot is the language of the unheard" - art provides a nonviolent medium for communities to speak, and if their audience is receptive, to be heard.

Art of itself is of little or no value if in its relatedness it does not effect change. We do not mean change in the physical appearance of things, but a change in the behavior of human beings.

-- Noah Purifoy

👾 Canvas Recap 👾

For those who missed it; the 2026's Fediverse Canvas Event is a collaborative artwork where any fediverse account can join in and place a single pixel every 30 seconds on a 500x500 sized blank canvas for 48 hours. This limitation requires that communities work together to create larger works of art, as well as encourage communication and collaboration with neighboring artworks and their communities.

We missed last year's canvas event, but this year managed to catch an announcement post for it, and quickly began to organize, ultimately deciding on 3 different artworks proposed by our members.

Choosing an initial spot to land our art was an important step, as it's possible to be overrun by competing artworks laying claim the same area. A chance contact with members from the Pawb.Social lemmy instance ultimately decided our spot, as they were more than willing to have us as neighbors. This alliance drastically altered the outcome of our experience for the better, with many of them offering essential help, including advice on how to allow all our members to see an overlay of the canvas with our templates already placed (shout out to the absolute legend @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social), as well as helping us secure our spot and assisting us in drawing our artworks (which we gratefully returned in mutual aid). I'm also quite pleased to say that we enjoyed our alliance so much, we've planned to join them as allies once again in next year's canvas event.

To see the final state of the canvas and what we managed to create, click here. There is also a video timelapse of the entire event here on Peertube.

After the event concluded, the organizer @grant@toast.ooo updated the stats of the event to CanvasStats.com, which allows us to see exactly where and how our instance members participated in the event. This showed that 2026 was our most active year on Canvas, with 9188 pixels placed by 20 slrpnk members, making us the 9th most active instance out of a total of 96!

The 2026 Canvas Atlas is also now available, which not only lets you scroll through the event as time progressed (with the bar at the bottom), it also lets users encircle a piece of work to give added context of what it is or what its about when moused over. I added context to our Slrpnk logo and Turtle Flag already, but if anyone else wants to add some details for any other artworks, feel free! :).

It was a really fun event this year, and particularly wonderful to see your ideas and proposals slowly appear on the board, as well as the fun adhoc art, such as @reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net's cute solar powered turtle tree, @benjirenji@slrpnk.net's Flag of Humanity, and @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net's sunflower meadow, which took on a life of its own and spread across the canvas as other users spotted it, helping it grow into a thriving patch of green teeming with color.

Doesn't get much better than that. Thanks again to everyone who participated this year, and to our furry friends over at Pawb.social!

🌄 Sunsetting of our Alexandrite frontend 🌅

As recently discussed, we are planning to sunset unmaintained alternative frontends. Originally we thought we had to remove the Mlmym (old.slrpnk.net) and the Alexandrite frontend, as both original projects have not been maintained for more than a year now and thus are posing an increasing security risk due to the use of outdated and know to be insecure libraries. In addition the soon upcoming Lemmy 1.0 version is making some significant changes to the client API and thus it is only a question of time before these unmaintained frontends will start breaking. Luckily it turned out that there is a still actively maintained fork of the Mlmym project, which we are using now, but sadly the Alexandrite frontend seems to be fully abandoned. We thus plan to shut it down later this month.

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 68.92€/month in donations from 13 people, which is covering most of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor (we are currently looking for an alternative for this as the Etherpad project has started to use LLMs for development quite heavily).

Final EDIT Mk2: To see this year's stats for our instance on canvas, click here (20 slrpnk users participated, collectively placing a whopping 9188 pixels!!, that's 3x more than our previous record, and made us the 9th most active fediverse instance on canvas this year). You can also see every pixel placed by a slrpnk user on this image here.

Final EDIT: 48 hours later, the event has come to a close. Massive thanks to everyone who participated! We really hit it out of the park this year with some fantastic pieces of art, and this is by far the largest amount we've drawn in our history of Canvas events.

To see the final state of the canvas without any template to get in the way, click here.

To see a complete timelapse of the event, click here.

Big thanks to the Furry community this year, who graciously let us be their neighbors, and who contributed towards our works so much in mutual aid! You all rock! ^^

And be sure to leave a comment of appreciation here to the awesome folk who created and hosted the event, it'd mean a lot to them :)

I hope you all had fun! Here's looking forward to next year's Canvas! :D

We are finally moving to a better container format for our Movim instance later this week. This will hopefully fix those persistent image preview issues we started having ever since switching to the old container format that lacks an image proxy.

The instance will be probably down for an hour or so as we need to reorganize a few things with the storage and overall setup.

Your access to the XMPP server with other apps should be unaffected.

Oh and in case you didn't notice yet, Movim recently added Discord like voice channels that you should definitely give a try 👍

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !spoonbreadtube@slrpnk.net - A community for sharing videos about labor issues centered on Appalachia, but almost anything that can be connected to the region is welcome (the creator is posting a great documentary that they've been excited to share, so be sure to check it out!)
• !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net - Community for those focused on sustainable travel.
• !disasterresponse@slrpnk.net - Disaster response, community prepping, mutual aid… everything that can help to weather the ongoing and coming disasters (perhaps especially helpful for those experiencing a heatwave)

🌆 A quiet month 😌

Overall, June was a fairly quiet month for the instance. We did tweak the taglines mentioned in the last meta to rotate between different highlights, as all of it at once was looking a bit cluttered if viewed from a mobile browser. But otherwise, things have mostly been purring along.

For the graph enthusiasts among us (I know you're here >_>), let's take a quick look at the instance's stats.

According to our fediverse.observer page, we're continuing to see a steady flow of new users signing up, now totaling 2,369, and our Monthly Active Users (MAU) are hovering at around ± 380 users, which has been pretty consistent for a little over a year now.

📸 Meta Post Image 🎞️

This month's artwork is Library Truck by Jacob Coffin (CC BY-ND 4.0), who is also a member here!

It depicts how a library economy might collect unwanted or unused furniture and appliances to be brought to a local warehouse and assessed and repaired, so that it can then be repurposed and given out to people in the community who need it. There's a more detailed write-up by Jacob Coffin in the link above, for those interested. :)

It's another image from the awesome Story Seed Library, which incidentally just concluded their their 2026 Disaster Preparedness, Response and Relief Art Collab, and we're excited to see the submissions from it! :D

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 63€/month in donations from 10 people, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !fieldrecording@slrpnk.net - Recording nature and other sounds outdoors.
• !xmpp@slrpnk.net - Discussion & News for XMPP (Jabber), a secure and decentralized chat protocol
• !documentaries@slrpnk.net - A place to post Solarpunk related documentaries (we got some good ones in there)

📣 Experiments with Taglines 📣

Lemmy has a 'tagline' feature which allows an admin to add some custom text or links at the top of the main page.

Inspired by how the admins of Pawb.social are using theirs, we've decided to experiment with implementing something similar; adding useful links to what Solarpunk is, highlighting our XMPP and the alternative frontends we host, as well as a link to our liberapay for those who'd like to support the instance.

I believe highlighting our XMPP in this way may be particularly impactful, as a surprising number of our members have told me they weren't aware that it exists, or that they can access it without having to create a new separate account (it uses the same database that your slrpnk.net login uses, allowing you to use your existing SLRPNK username and password to access it).

If you feel it takes up too much space, we have the option to spit up the different sections and rotate through them individually when the page reloads. We'd love to your thoughts on it. :)

UPDATE: We noticed the main page was a little too busy from a mobile browser, so we opted to switch it up and rotate between the XMPP and Alternative frontend taglines to save space.

🚧 Piefed Migration Update 🚧

For those unaware, we've been looking into a potential future migration to Piefed, which has been discussed in previous Monthly Meta threads.

We've mainly been eyeing the prospect of migrating due to a persistent database bug with Lemmy which has been particularly troublesome. However, it's quite a big task to migrate our instance with all of its comments and communities intact, and poVoq would be pioneering that endeavor, as it hasn't been done before. It is also likely that all pictures previously uploaded to SLRPNK would not make the jump to Piefed, which is an unfortunate downside.

In the time since we considered migration, Lemmy development has begun to approach a stable 1.0 release, and with it are some changes to how it handles the database which could potentially fix the issues we've been experiencing. It also would bring with it some long requested quality of life features.

Due to that new development, we've decided to give Lemmy 1.0 a trial run to see if it resolves our issues, and reassess from there if a Piefed migration is still warranted.

📸 Meta Post Image 🎞️

The wonderful art for this month's community discussion is Community Gardens by Daniele Turturicil (CC BY-ND 4.0). It also lets us also highlight the Story Seed Library from which it was sourced, which is a superb library of Solarpunk artwork and story ideas from which to gather inspiration for your own Solarpunk works.

(We also have a Story Seed Library community here at !storySeedLibrary@slrpnk.net)

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

Currently, SLRPNK is receiving 46€/month in donations, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. Thanks!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor

We will likely have a 2 hour or so down-time of our Lemmy server this coming weekend (16/17th of May).

The plan is to update the OS and finally move the database and main backend back to the original server. It should be relatively quick as we will move the NVMe drives directly instead of copying the files over.

The initial OS upgrade will only affect the Pictrs image server of our Lemmy instance, so don't be overly surprised when the images fail to load first.

Of course fingers crossed nothing goes wrong when messing with the hardware 😅

The other services should be unaffected, but newly logging into the XMPP server will not be possible while the main Lemmy database that holds the accounts is offline.

Edit: all done I hope.

for these reasons:

• The enshittification topic is not a Solar Punk topic
• The moderator:
  • has contempt for privacy in a relatively privacy-centric forum
  • is oppressive
  • uses censorship to control the narrative and silence viewpoints
  • practices selective enforcement (censors civil comments while permitting off-topic threadcrap that reinforces the mod’s viewpoint)
  • is non-transparent (witholds specific rationale for mod actions)

It’s great to have thematic instances like slrpnk.net which are in short supply amid the ocean of general purpose nodes. It’s of course good for thematic nodes to stay close to their “constitution” (declared purpose). The relevance of tech enshittification to solar punk is a tenuous stretch and very slight at best. To keep with the theme, admins might want to consider locking the forum to prevent new threads while keeping the history of posts in reach for a while for archival purposes.

If it is decided that enshitification is fitting enough to keep, consider replacing the moderator who does not represent solar punk values. Oppressive tyrannical types are not a good representation for slrpnk.net.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/46870721

This month-old instance has three communities. One is for testing and the other two are anti-trans.

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !foxtrot@slrpnk.net - A comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend.
• !relationshipanarchy@slrpnk.net - For all those that live relationship anarchy and those that want to learn about it.
• !outdoor@slrpnk.net - Hiking, camping, nature photography etc.

✊🏾 May Day! ✊

On this day, 140 years ago in 1886, U.S. workers and unions called for a general strike in support of the 8 hour work day. While many answered the call in New York, Detroit, and Milwaukee; Chicago was the one to show up on a mass scale, numbering over 400,000 strong, a large amount of them Anarchists.

However, on the third day of the strike, police fired wildly into the crowd of striking workers, killing at least one, and injuring numerous others. Anarchists called for a mass meeting the next day in Haymarket Square to protest the brutality. Though the meeting was peaceful and naturally began to disperse on its own, police once again gathered themselves, 180 strong, and confronted the meeting workers to demand they disperse immediately (and unlawfully). At this moment, a bomb was thrown into the police column, by who, history hasn’t revealed, but it prompted the police to open fire into the crowd once more, this time killing 4 workers, alongside 7 police deaths to friendly fire.

What followed was a mass terror of warrantless police raids against union shops, meeting halls, printing presses, and private homes. One group quickly became the target of blame, and without evidence, a sham trial was conducted against 8 Anarchists. The jury (composed of businessmen) were told “Law is on trial. Anarchy is on trial. These men have been selected, picked out by the Grand Jury, and indicted because they were leaders. They are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society.”

One was sentenced to 15 years, the other 7 sentenced to death. A global protest campaign resulted in two more being spared the noose in favor of life sentences, the others weren’t so lucky. Nearly half a million lined the roads leading the their funeral, and as many as 50,000 attended in honor of what are now known as the Haymarket Martyrs. We now remember them on May 1st. May Day.

This day is often chosen to host protests, rallies, and other activist events, and today is no different. There’s another thing we can do to not only honor those past heroes, but to bolster the current resistance as well; Unionize.

Not only does unionizing your workplace bring almost immediate benefits to you and your co-workers (a living wage, benefits, more time off), it also lets us fight back against the regime with an effective general strike, just as it worked in 1886 (they wouldn’t have fought us so hard if it didn’t). You can find resources to help you unionize in the Union Resources section of this post.

📸 Meta Post Image: The Desplaines Street Haymarket Memorial in Chicago 🎞️

Revealed in 2004, the Haymarket Memorial sits on Desplaines Street near the original site of the events that inspired May Day.

🚦 Lemmy.World Defederation and Refederation with Anarchist.Nexus 🚦

Recently, Lemmy.World's primary administrator MrKaplan defederated from Anarchist.Nexus and threatened to defederate Lemmy.DBZer0.com, two large anarchist Lemmy instances. After significant feedback and discussion he has since refederated Lemmy.world with Anarchist.Nexus.

SLRPNK is not an anarchist instance, anyone who feels affinity with the Solarpunk movement to create a better world is welcome here. That said, I and my fellow admins are anarchists. I think I speak for most other anarchists who have found a home on SLRPNK as well when I say that we can't help but view MrKaplan's careless behavior as an attack all people who share our moral and political convictions: what is happening in Palestine is a genocide, and Zionism is the ideology that fuels it.

The Fediverse is a collection of small social media servers that through coordination build a grassroots network of human connection that is growing to rival centralized corporate social media. Despite the political diversity across this network, we share a common value -- decentralized social media is important. We would like to see this network continue to grow, and that means adding more servers to our federation and nurturing the ties that we already share. Defederation means a severing of all communication between two servers. This is a blunt tool that instance admins should be careful to wield, and it should certainly not be done in anger or over a bruised ego. It is however a tool that we do deploy for various reasons from time to time, be it for reasons of federated feed curation, more technical reasons like preventing abuse coming from unmaintained instances, or in rare cases due to severe ideological misalignment. Especially in the last case we are careful to ensure that none of those decisions are taken lightly or in anger and we typically document our reasons for each in either our monthly meta posts, or in their own separate post on c/Meta. We have and will continue to take the issue of which servers we federate with extremely seriously, and listen to our members for their feedback on this topic.

These events are extremely recent and we're still processing the news. Further discussion is welcome in the comments.

• LW banned me and defederated AN over "Murder all zionists" in my display name
• Lemmy.world Admin MrKaplan rages over anti-Zionism banning users and defederating instances
• Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated
• Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world!

🔕 Defederation from Poa.st 🛑

Poa.st is a Soapbox instance (a Mastodon-like microblogging software) which was used in a now debunked disinfo attempt to paint Dbzer0 and Anarchist.Nexus as being the target of entryism by a group of antisemitic Nazis.

While that specific doctored conversation did not take place, that group of individuals on poa.st was likely chosen due to displaying nazi behavior elsewhere on that instance, which enhanced the credibility of the disinfo attempt. For those same reasons, we have chosen to defederate from Poa.st on the same ideological grounds that we defederated from Maga,place and HilariousChoas (which you can read here in last year's November Monthly Meta).

As it is a Mastodon-like instance, it hosts no communities that our users would've followed, which means it should not noticeably effect any of our users. Instead, the defederation will effectively only block poa.st users from directly interacting with posts on our instance.

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via our F-hub donation site: https://contribute.f-hub.org/ (Note: Your contributions work, but due to an annoying bug they are currently not shown in the summary)

We also offer Librapay as an option for those who already have an account there, which supports reoccurring donations: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

(Note: the Librapay option supports the broader F-hub project, of which SLRPNK is a part of. If you'd like all of your donation to go toward SLRPNK, use the alternative F-hub donation link, and select 'slrpnk.net' in the 'reason' drop-down instead)

Currently f-hub.org is getting a combined 46€/month in donations, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. Thanks!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor

Is there currently a Solarpunk community for booklovers/Solarpunk reading recommendations, etc? I came to think of it when I was going to ask around if anyone was still using book swapping sites like BookMooch and Paperback Swap, but it would be a nice place for other book discussions, too. I did use search on the communities page, and it didn't turn up exactly what I was looking for, but there's always the possibility that I was using the wrong search terms.

what’s wrong with slrpnk.net reaching out to hilariouschaos.com?

It’s interesting that c/hardware seems to no longer exist, but I can still post to the ghost of that community on the instance holding my account:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/hardware@slrpnk.net

I think c/hardware must have been removed a very long time ago, yet fedi instances remain unaware. Is there never a syncing?

And what happened to the content on slrpnk.net? Is this post gone from the slrpnk server?:

https://sopuli.xyz/post/244910

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of approved news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events (of our choosing), and to act as a Red Square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !CarbonChallenge@slrpnk.net - a place to organize actions to reduce our own carbon impact.
• !Scotland@slrpnk.net - Solarpunk, climate, renewables and ecology related news and discussions related to Scotland.
• !gaidhlig@slrpnk.net - A community that aims to restore optimism and encourage rebellion through the use of Gàidhlig (or Scots Gaelic), an indigenous endangered language of Celtic origin.

🪖 A new day is upon us. Do not be alarmed, be Joyous. 🐸

Comrades! It is with great and distinct pleasure that I, ProdigalFrog, may inform you all of a great change which has occurred.

Unbeknownst to all of you, a hidden civil war has been waging between the SLRPNK admins, starting from a tourist trip to Lenin's Mausoleum, where my eyes were for the first time opened to the wonders of Marxism-Leninism (and the wonders of modern embalming techniques). It was then that I began to plot for revolution within the server.

Five quite wisely and correctly took my side in the plot against the Anarchist bandit poVoq.

A well-timed, powerful body-blow of multi-page citations, semantics, and overwhelming dogma to poVoq's metaphorical spleen resulted in his complete and utter defeat. This brought with it, shall we say... a change of guard.

But not to fret, poVoq is currently recovering from his unfortunate and repulsive non-hierarchical principles at one of our top re-education summer camps established in the highly comfortable and luxurious frozen northern instances of Lemmy (along with the server SLRPNK is hosted on, since neither I nor Five have the skills to actually keep it running).

With that business out of the way, Five and I can finally begin to right the ship that is SLRPNK, beginning with a new chapter in our history. In particular, we are announcing the formation of a new people's party: The Solarpunk Vanguard Party of the Quiet Proletariat Who Are Good Listeners.

And what is a Party without its own flag? We have slaved away to create a true tapestry that perfectly reflects the will and spirit of the users here:

Doesn't it just... Bring a tear to your patriotic eyes?

To defend against our enemies, both external and internal, such a fledgling party will naturally need the gentle yet firm guiding hand that only true Vanguards can provide. Thus, both Five and myself have graciously elected ourselves to lead this new party (no need to thank us).

With a new party comes new rules to ensure the safe continuation of the server. Thankfully, after careful consideration and a quick consultation with Lenin's well preserved and... surprisingly attractive corpse, we have assembled a list which Five shall now present to you. Comrade Five?

Comrades, let us get straight to the business at hand.

1. Users must make at least five posts per day, no more, no less. If a user does not listen, and commits the shitlib sin of six posts, the sixth shall be removed without warning, and the username will be logged for the infraction.
2. Any and all mentions of bread, especially in relation to conquests, is hereby prohibited, for it has been determined to be a capitalist bourgeoisie plot by western media.
3. The admins will take on moderator roles in all communities, for the safety of the proletariat.
4. The total amount of communities on the instance must be divisible by five. Any new community that alters this balance will be seen as questioning the wisdom of the party, which may be investigated.
5. A new Vanguard committee will be selected from 5 trusted members, chosen by myself.

Lastly, we will be adopting the proven Four Pests ecological program from the glorious Chinese state, which we fully expect our members to embrace. While it is near perfection, I have personally determined the need for one minor modification; the addition of a fifth pest to the list, thus rendering it the Five Pests Campaign.

The 'pest' in question is not merely a threat to crops, or to our server, but is in fact a threat to the ultimate goals of our collective Marxist-Leninist project.

My fellow solarpunks, I declare the Frog, and all of their amphibian kind, to be an enemy of the state!!! Take up arms and exterminate all things which croak, hunt them down wherever they may hide, let them not slink and slither into their debaucherous ponds, do this in the name of progressin-

Ahem.

Yes, well... Clearly, Comrade Five's mind has been infected by the west, manipulating them into a treasonous counter-revolutionary plot against me. They will soon be joining poVoq at the luxury summer camps to learn the error of their ways.

On that revelation, I must leave to attend to new duties; hastily learning GIMP to edit Comrade Five out of our flippin' sweet boating trip pics.

👏 Okay, good talk everyone. Have a glorious April!

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via our F-hub donation site: https://contribute.f-hub.org/ (Note: Your contributions work, but due to an annoying bug they are currently not shown in the summary)

We also offer Librapay as an option for those who already have an account there, which supports reoccurring donations: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

(Note: the Librapay option supports the broader F-hub project, of which SLRPNK is a part of. If you'd like all of your donation to go toward SLRPNK, use the alternative F-hub donation link, and select 'slrpnk.net' in the 'reason' drop-down instead)

Currently f-hub.org is getting a combined 55€/month in donations, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. We also received a sum of approximately 40€ in one-time donations in March from SLRPNK members that help with recovering the costs of recent hardware purchases, thanks!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor

For many links a picture is automatically displayed in the preview. I’m curious if there’s a way to add an image for links that don’t generate one?

Desalienación Digital: manifiesto, análisis geopolítico y soberanía tecnológica desde el fediverso.

Somos Colectivo Desalienación - proyecto post-capitalista de soberanía digital nacido en el fediverso.

Publicamos análisis geopolítico lúcido, casos de estudio sobre corporaciones "éticas" que fallan, y herramientas para recuperar el control de nuestra vida digital.

Luchamos desde las entrañas del sistema para salir de él.

Sin amos, sin tutores.

🌐 desalienacion.org 🔧🖤✊

This has been brewing for some time and the original plan was to only hide them from the "All" feed so that they would not pollute our member curated federated feed, but the feature to do so is sadly very inaccessible in Lemmy (hidden as a admin only API command that isn't exposed in the UI, making it a real hassle to use).

But these days these bot spam instances started to take up a lot of space on the federated feed, so I feel like full defederation is warranted now.

The bot spam instances identified so far are:

• https://lemmit.online/ (Reddit repost spam)
• https://lemmy.durstig.online/ (Reddit repost spam)
• https://ibbit.at/ (RSS feed spam)
• https://news.abolish.capital/ (RSS feed spam)

Additionally there are some bot accounts that are solely reposting RSS feeds and thus should also be banned:

• https://slrpnk.net/u/rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se

This is a work in progress list. Feel free to suggest additional bot spam instances or accounts here in the comments. Thanks.

P.S.: If you run a individual RSS post bot for a community you moderate here on SLRPNK and it isn't spamming the federated feed with an excessive amount of posts, then there is no need to remove it.

Edit: the above instances are now defederated and the bot banned.