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SLRPNK Community Discussion - January 2026 - SLRPNK
slrpnk.netEach 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. Hope everyone had a good New Years :) -------------------- #### 🌟
Community Highlights 🌟 * !FoodNotBombs@slrpnk.net [/c/FoodNotBombs@slrpnk.net]
- a community for news, discussion and media regarding the international mutual
aid network of collectives called food not bombs. * !PolarPunk@slrpnk.net
[/c/PolarPunk@slrpnk.net] - inspired by the far North and South regions of the
globe and the unique challenges, adaptations, and resilience of practicing
Solarpunk ideals in harsh environmental, social, or political climates. *
!theboondocks@slrpnk.net [/c/theboondocks@slrpnk.net] - The new home of The
Boondocks comic strip on the fediverse. #### ✍️ Writing Community Resources 📚
The moderators of our !writing@slrpnk.net [/c/writing@slrpnk.net] community have
started collecting some resources on possible Solarpunk story and world-building
elements on our wiki [https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start]. They are still
looking for additional ideas, so please share good resources on the community.
#### ⛸️ Meta Post Image: Children Ice Skating on Frozen Canals ❄️ The City of
Amsterdam has over 100km (62 miles) of waterways intersecting the city, built
initially as defensive moats that grew in concentric rings as the city increased
in size. Today, they are part of an integral transportation network, and many
inhabitants get around by boat. When the weather forecast is cold enough, boat
traffic is stopped in select canals to allow the water to freeze. It doesn’t
happen every year, and the last time it occurred was in 2021, when this picture
was taken
[https://www.afar.com/magazine/dutch-skate-amsterdams-canals-for-first-time-since-2018].
The primary activity is communal ice skating, but it’s possible to travel across
the entire city on ice skates once enough of the waterways are frozen. The
choice of post image was inspired by the wiki additions of JacobCoffinWrites,
specifically the section on seasonal roads
[https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:seasonal_roads]. You can find more examples and
ideas for imagining Solarpunk cities – and you can add your own as well! #### 📡
Technical Updates 📡 In December we moved the Lemmy instance to a different
server because we identified some odd hardware issues on the previous server
(much slower than expected read speeds on the NVMe SSD raid). While doing so we
also took the opportunity to upgrade the database and re-examine the database
tuning at bit. While both together seems to have improved overall speed of the
site, we are still seeing the regular out-of-memory issue of the database
container that causes stalling of the site and temporarily breaks the XMPP
account integration. Unfortunately, this issue seems to have become more acute,
since the new server has a bit less free memory. We are still looking into
possible workarounds but at least it has become a bit more clear now what the
possible cause of this issue might be. -------------------- #### 🔋 How to
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supports reoccurring donations: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/
[https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/] (Note: the Librapay option supports the
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alternative F-hub donation link, and select ‘slrpnk.net [http://slrpnk.net]’ in
the ‘reason’ drop-down instead) #### 💬 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
[https://wiki.slrpnk.net/] - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for
your communities! - Movim Chat [https://movim.slrpnk.net/] - Open to all members
(use your SLRPNK login credentials) - Etherpad [https://pads.slrpnk.net/] -
Collaborative document editor ::: spoiler 🗃️ Meta Archive 📰 Our Monthly Meta
posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many
of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for
those interested, we’ve compiled a list below. * December 2024
[https://slrpnk.net/post/15741246] - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime *
February 2025 [https://slrpnk.net/post/17910446?scrollToComments=true] - How to
avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy * June 2025
[https://slrpnk.net/post/23012609] - A brief guide on Security Culture &
Adopting FOSS as prefiguration * July 2025 [https://slrpnk.net/post/24141955] -
How to build community with fun projects! ::: ::: spoiler ⬛ Union Resources 🟥
These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective
organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers! * 🌍 Global: IWW
[https://www.iww.org/] (Français [https://www.iww.org/fr/]) - (Español
[https://www.iww.org/es/]) * 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA [https://fora.com.ar/] * 🇦🇺
Australia: ASF-IWA [https://asf-iwa.org.au/] * 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
[https://lutafob.org/] * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS
[https://avtonomna.com/%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F/],
CITUB [https://knsb-bg.org/] * 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU [https://www.fau.org/] * 🇬🇷
Greece: ESE [https://ese.espiv.net/] * 🇮🇹 Italy: USI [https://usi-cit.org/] *
🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond [https://www.vrijebond.org/] * 🇪🇸
Spain: CNT [https://www.cnt.es/] * 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC [https://www.sac.se/] * 🇬🇧
United Kingdom: UVW [https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/] :::
i gotta say, i don’t see it happening
There’s only a handful of projects and they’re all directly connected to Lemmy. Killing Lemmy is first step towards killing the idea of a decentralised reddit alternative entirely. Sentiment towards other projects will plummet if the first and largest of them falls over.
It’s also not like liberals haven’t tried to make an alternative to reddit in the past. Tildes was even made by a reddit admin but it never caught on because it doesn’t really have a hook. The hook Lemmy has is fundamentally about wanting to get away from corporate centralised control, which is ideologically leftist whether these liberals like that or not. The projects that the liberals are in charge of will trend the wrong direction, away from all the things that give Lemmy a hook that continually brings in more people. They don’t get it. They just want to recreate reddit.
Kill the leftist project and the others will not have a hook and go the same way as other reddit alternatives did historically.
i get the thought, but i just can’t see it happening. at least not as an explicitly political project. maybe lemmy will make some sort of unforced error but even then idk. no redditor is going to voluntarily spend their time building a community just to destroy the tankies. and so long as piefed sucks so much i just can’t see it happening. maybe the buyeuropean libs will manage to keep the piefed community big enough for it to happen but in its current iteration i just can’t imagine it destroying lemmy.
I agree, a lot of the anti-tankie stuff is heavily astroturfed by a few power-users who have made “anti-tankie” their personality, and those users are less popular than the “tankies” they complain non-stop about, so when those guys go to make their own social media, it seems like the rest of lemmy will be happy to not have to hear people freaking out about tankies all the time. In other words, most lemmy users are probably just
yeah you can’t make a more enticing platform with insufferable users and bad software
There’s a lot of groups that aren’t just random individual redditors who have an interest in seeing off something like this. Who’s paying for it? Where’s the money coming from to do the work? Where’s the money coming from for hosting? Piefed only has 12 donators.
Facebook has actively attempted to harm the fediverse already. There are going to be others.
web hosting isn’t terribly expensive and a single software developer with a grudge would be enough to make some code and pay for the domain and hosting. especially because it’s so badly-developed. idk if the fediverse is big enough yet for social media to do that sort of astroturfing but i guess it probably is. idk i just can’t imagine the piefed movement taking down lemmy unless it changes direction completely.
Look up the “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” strategy in regards to fediverse.
??? Facebook(meta) literally has their own platform on the fediverse, Threads is owned by Meta. They are absolutely engaged in what’s evolving and playing some sort of game, others will be too. These are organisations with more resources than some countries and fewer restrictions, they’ve got hidden operations on top of their public ones.
no i understand embrace extend extinguish. but the thing about that is you have to have a good product to begin with. not a software that’s worse than reddit with a community that’s more annoying than reddit. embrace extend extinguish is dependent on the network effect. if piefed gets that i would be very surprised. especially when it’s an open-source project so it’s a bit harder to make proprietary extensions
I’m not saying that it is EEE, I’m saying that its sole purpose for existing is to harm the existing project. It doesn’t exist because someone believes in the mission of decentralised media, it exists because someone doesn’t like that communists have a project that is successful and growing. Its purpose is to harm that project, and upon its purpose being completed it will not have a purpose anymore, at that time it will cease to continue. Whether that is funded by higher powers or not is not particularly important, but acknowledging it is possible as there are certainly interests that might want that.
oh i was just saying i don’t think this current iteration of liberal wrecking will achieve its goal