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 🌟
- !ireland@slrpnk.net - Solarpunk, climate, renewables and ecology related news and discussions related to the island of Ireland.
- !storySeedLibrary@slrpnk.net - A community for the Story Seed Library, a repository of Solarpunk art and writing prompts helping us imagine a better tomorrow.
- !coolzonemedia@slrpnk.net - A podcast network that includes in its offerings Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Hood Politics, and many more.
Meta Post Image: Member of an Ohio FnB featured in the Columbus Dispatch
Food not Bombs is a global network of grassroots volunteer organizations that “provide food for the hungry and support non-violent protests” as stated in the article featuring this picture in 2019. During winter they often also supply clothing and temporary shelter. Most of their winter drives ended on November 30th, but it may not be too late to bring warm clothing and tents for people in need. Contact your local FnB directly to arrange your donation.
📡 Technical Updates 📡
Last month we did some server OS updates, and there are still some pending plans to temporarily migrate the Lemmy instance to a slightly faster machine as the current server has some strange hardware issues that can’t be properly checked while the instance is running on it. If we move the instance back afterwards depends on the outcome of this, but the other server should be equally capable of running it. For updates on this you can subscribe to our /c/meta community, or check the F-hub.org status page.
We also saw some performance issues from what appears to be renewed AI scraping (somehow circumventing our Anubis scraper block), but no easy way to block these could be found yet. It eased up in the last two weeks, so for now this is left a bit hanging.
💰 Update on donations 💸
The long promised option to donate to help running the SLRPNK servers is still not fully functional, but you can now do recurring donations to our mothership F-hub.org via LiberaPay. While this isn’t exclusive to running the SLRPNK server, most of the running costs are shared and thus for now it is nearly the same. But in the near future we will also have an option to make one time donations specifically for SLRPNK.
💬 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!
Any news on PieFed?
Also, boost (for lemmy) takes a bit too long to open on slrpnk. Dunno if it is due to my internet, Lemmy, slrpnk, boost, or a weird combination of any or all of these…
I think it is slrpnk.net. Also, when posting (such as this very comment), it takes a few seconds to go through. Not a deal breaker, but just to let you know.
No news on our Piefed yet.
I am aware of the site being a bit slow sometimes, but no idea if that is worse for boost users. Do you see the same slowdowns when using one of our webUIs?