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.
Hope everyone had a good New Years :)
🌟 Community Highlights 🌟
- !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 - 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 - The new home of The Boondocks comic strip on the fediverse.
✍️ Writing Community Resources 📚
The moderators of our !writing@slrpnk.net community have started collecting some resources on possible Solarpunk story and world-building elements on our wiki. 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. 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. 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 Support SLRPNK.net 🌱
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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)
💬 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
🗃️ 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 - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime
- February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
- June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
- July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects!
⬛ 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!
They may actually not be case sensitive, your typo in foodnotbombs and my typo in the creation of the boondocks… I have an extra k in there, caused issues.
Any way there is an admin way to go into the community and fix my typo?
I think due to the way communities federate, their URL names likely cannot be changed once created (at least, I don’t have an option to change it as an admin when I visit it, I can only alter the Display Name, which is different).
Since that community is still relatively new, it may be easier to create a new one with corrected spelling and then delete the old one. If you go that route, I could update the meta to point toward the new community :)
I did not know if you could go into the database and change it in there or not.
Since I only have 77 subscribers currently, I am going to start a new one. I feel like such a goober making that typo.
According to @poVoq@slrpnk.net, changing the name of the community in the database would cause federation issues, unfortunately.