Very cool, got a subscribe from me :)

Nice looking setup! ^^

The purpose of giving Catalonia as an example is to show that an alternative to capitalism that doesn’t descend into authoritarianism is possible, as many are not aware that it even happened, and that Anarchist theory, when put into practice, really did work and wasn’t just hopeful pie in the sky ideas.

It shows that putting in the work to lay those foundations, even if it is a marathon spanning decades, is worth the effort.

They will never stop. A better life has to be built by the working class in-spite of the rich, and that can and has been done, but it takes a lot of work from all of us pushing things forward with worker coops, joining militant unions, and building community in your local area.

A deleted post will still remain visible to the person who posted it (it’ll have a little red trashcan icon next to the title to show it’s deleted), but it should no longer be visible to anyone else. And as Cris_Citrus mentioned, a deleted post can sometimes take a while to federate out to other instances so that it’s deleted on their end too.

I also don’t think it’s a bad question, and it appears to be generating an interesting and useful discussion, so thanks for posting it :)

Back during our last outage, someone from a different instanced lamented us being down using that term and I’ve been kinda perpetuating it as a running joke. But I agree, we’re punks first and foremost!

You have no idea the smile that idea put on my face.

Soon enough we’ll have the rest of the fediverse upgrading us to the dyslexic techno-hippies 😎

It wouldn’t be a monthly meta by me without some typos (really thought I had it this month after triple checking that the community highlights were right) 😅

Thanks for catching that! They should all be right now :p

Thanks for mentioning harper, hadn’t heard of it until now.

Chemical sunscreens can be. Mineral types that use zinc oxide or titanium oxide should be pretty okay to use.

Also keep in mind that supplements in the US are not well regulated, so look for supplements which come from reputable sources with true external third party audits of their claims.

Costco has a nice affordable B-complex Kirkland brand supplement, for those with a membership.

a decentralized egalitarian society was implemented with over 3 million people in 1936 Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. By all accounts it worked extremely well, and did not suffer from authoritarianism or genocide.

And there’s resistance bands, which if combined with a door anchor can replace weights for a fraction of the space and cost. A doorframe pull up bar would be the last piece of kit a home gym would really need when combined with the bands and calisthenics.

Then Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, Bookwyrm, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, all made from disparate developers from around the world, are all one US Federal plot?

Why would they prefer a decentralized, difficult to control social media network over the centralized ones that are already entirely under the control of right-wing billionaires?

I understood the reference, but if we’re going by that logic, the Fediverse itself is a federal ploy.

This is something I’ve been kinda bewildered to see in the wild, especially amongst MLs circles. Like, surely a tremendous amount of people were Liberal before coming across some solid Anarchist stuff which made too much sense to ignore?

Speaking for myself, I certainly didn’t start out Anarchist. It took a long path going from following my religious parent’s ideas and traditional values, to questioning religion and becoming atheist, to investigating political ideas, where I came across right-wing libertarian concepts which seemed like the best idea at the time.

It wasn’t until coming across Chomsky that I ultimately went down the road to Anarchism proper, and finally all the pieces clicked into place.

Nothing wrong with calling things out as liberal as a descriptor and to accurately point out all of its many many downfalls, but could be quite offputting to use as an insult to people reading who consider themselves liberal still.

I mean… Same for Fediverse, and Federation?

At the bottom of every instance is a row of links, the ‘Instances’ link will show you which instances your server is federated with, and at the top of that page is a tab for the server’s block list.

Thanks for the heads up, we’re now defederated from it.

It’s easy to feel like you’re part of an organization that’s operating as a lonely last hold out, because you’re in a dark forest of misinformation and occluded dissent.

Very much this. As was said in Andor:

"Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."