“XMPP is too hard” i hear all the time. i don’t get it at all. it’s no harder than matrix and it’s much lighter to host

It’s my favorite. Interacting with it is just a thought and then you’re in your app. There’s no browsing trying to remember where in the list the app is, forgetting on the way which app you were looking for, opening one of the 3 apps you’re addicted to. It’s great

1. the people set up local solar collection grids
2. the state gets mad as the state ultimately represents the interests of the petrochemical industry (the state is almost universally a petrostate)
3. the state implements a system of taxes and subsidies to reduce the economic efficacy of solar panels
4. when enough people maintain their solar panels, the state resorts to its usual mechanism for enforcement: violence
5. the people, confronted with the violence of the state must either submit to the power of the state or respond to the violence of the state with violence of their own

idk if i succeeded or failed

Niagara and KISS are IMO the best launchers out. Niagara is more polished, KISS is open source, requires few permissions, and has an almost pathological dedication to supporting low power hardware

you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they’re doing it

• racism
• Islamophobia
• homophobia
• sexism
• transphobia
• ablism
• shit you ain’t never even thought of hating on

they’re hating on it

i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit

the key is, from microsoft’s perspective, you don’t own your computer

That’s close, but not quite correct

Guilt helps people change. Shame gets them to more deeply entrench themselves into their current behaviors because they’re going to seek out ways to alleviate that shame through social connections that alleviate the pain of shame. The thing to understand is that guilt is a feeling of wrong doing, and shame is a feeling of lacking social value. When deprogramming someone from their previously held propagandized views, you have to give them an avenue to travel from their current position to where they are going. They need the opportunity to apologize and make amends. This is the process for atonement.

All that said, you also have to not give out too many chances. That just lets people continue to perpetuate their harm. If someone shows no sign of being willing to go through the atonement process you have to find ways to keep your community safe from the things that they do. How to do that is a discussion for another forum. Mostly in person discussions in mutual aid or community defense space, as this process is also context dependent.

bigger threats to her community’s safety. she is willing to send aid to people who tolerate the insidious presence of bigotry if it means the people who loath bigotry are still alive tomorrow to fight bigotry

What I am about to say is effectively a power upvote, but this is in direct alignment with what my Ukrainian friend who fought in Ukraine’s civil was has to say about these things. She hates Azov’s integration but in this current moment still finds herself sending money to United24 because even though she once sat on a rooftop with a rifle, she feels that the best way to keep her sister alive is to support the national army that once tried to de-legitimize her resistance and integrated her enemies.

The way she’s put it is that her objection to the far right militia’s was that they were fundamentally bigots and she cannot abide racists. The russian army presents in her home a foreign occupying imperial military which in many ways is bigots, racists, and then more insidiousness on top of all that. I haven’t really talked about her here on lemmy for a long time because it gets exhausting being told she was a CIA asset

i’m always excited to recommend it! there’s probably nothing more influential or more driving to my ethical-political outlook on the world than her and Carol Gilligan. it is not strictly speaking an anarchist text but it is extremely influential in modern anarchist circles.

it’s also SUCH a departure from so much prior male driven philosophical examinations of ethics, and it really opens some eyes about what becomes possible and how the world can be different when people with hegemonic privilege shut the fuck up and listen for a minute. it made all that time i wasted studying philosophy in college worth it haha (by my senior year when i met my philosophical mentor i was feeling really depressed and jaded about what a waste of time studying philosophy had been as i was facing the prospect of never having a well paying job and not knowing what to do about how fucked the world is all the time)

also to piggyback, does anyone have any good books about effective propaganda i can recommend to people? i know the basic pattern and put into practice:

1. identify something about your audience
2. give them something to agree/identify with
3. associate a positive message with what they agree with
4. create mass presence of this messaging so they see it everywhere
5. wait for someone to give them in person verbal confirmation

but i lack any concrete published theory to give to people to read if they’re interested in changing 21st century minds

Mutual Aid - Dean Spade

Ethics of Care - Virginia Held

i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about

status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don’t necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry

phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.

wildly unhelpful, @[email protected] . you’ve jumped straight back into reinforcing false binaries. i agree that the person you are replying to is in the wrong, but caping for authoritarianism is NOT OKAY.

you could just leave it at that a foreign occupying nation enacting an extraction economy on a people is wrong, immoral, unjust, and doesn’t bring anyone closer to liberation. instead you “pray for [someone’s] oppression”

i’m going back to blocking you and this community, but i’m going to ask you this. what do you want the world to be? just a bunch of campist fighting so long as you get to attack some liberals? enjoy. i want no part of it. i want to build a better world from the ashes of the old rather than renewing past mistakes.

accelerationism, making things worse for people, does not bring us closer to liberation. working and organizing into a robust movement of the people does. we cannot be free as long as we’re all just picking which imperial dictator’s to support rather than working together to burn them all down

i think he sucks, but i don’t think it’s good he’s gone. this hasn’t brought venezuelans closer to liberation. the opposite, in fact. i think the people celebrating just aren’t familiar with what a foreign occupying extractive economy does to a people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home

If anyone is interested in how ICE is just imperialism turned inwards (one of the definitions of fascism) I recommend this book

Would you be fine with me calling you “sis?”

The notion of “everyone is ‘dude’ or ‘guys’” supports a patriarchal hegemonic understanding of the world