Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The FSFE’s technical infrastructure is 100% Free Software. New in the game are our Peertube instance and Matrix server. Read about our system in our yearly report: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#technical-infrastructure

@stux @andijah People please... donate to your instance admins! They run these services out of the goodness of their hearts and are true heroes!
If everyone on the instance just donated ONE EUR/GBP/USD... a month then it would go a looooong way to keeping the instance secure into the future.

Now...single instance users, you interact with these instances right? So why not donate to them so your contacts using these instances can be kept online for as long as can be!?

(to be clear and a little boastful, yes I do donate to mstdn.social, even though I don't use it directly. I also donate to other larger instances I interact with - I want all these people to talk to!)

mstdn.social has 6170 active users

With so many users it should be easy to cover the costs of the server

@stux has repeatedly been asking for donations, but people don't donate enough

A 'tragedy of the commons' seems to happens on donation-based servers

Here's Stux latest call for donations: https://mstdn.social/@stux/109183555565416074

Think of it, 6000 people should be able to cover the missing 257 € in a second - but they don't

The funding-model of the #Fediverse is broken. We must do something to fix it.

Watch the excellent documentary FOOD COOP, about NYC's Park Slope Food Co-op, and join the GEO Collective for a discussion about the film!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-new-yorks-park-slope-food-co-op-tickets-429352594167

I'm so so so inspired by the anti-nuclear activist that I sat next to all evening who spent her youth during the cold war protesting, being arrested, protesting, being arrested - and telling me about their strategies and what they achieved in terms of global regulation. 💚

social movements change things. activism changes things.

solidarity with our young anti oil-and-gas activists
#KeepItInTheGround

Enjoying this - could be the story of my life! The book hits on so many of the movements or issues of my activist life thro the 70s/80s/90s - bcos it's a history of Marxian politics of tech, I guess. Chapter two is here, have a look https://cloud.owncube.com/s/6bBc54LQriiFY4x
It becomes mostly about the USA, which is interesting for a European - didn't know about the Johnson-Forest Tendency, for example.

I suspect though, it'll end as a historical romp rather than an acute analysis.

Richard Wolff saying Putin has done an "extraordinary job" and calling him a "smart fellow", criticizing him being "demonized" as a "bad guy".

This guy is a liability to the coop movement, no idea why he has become the self-appointed worker coop guru of the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfpC8lgouY

Register now: https://waysforward.coop

The latest in a series of annual conferences. The role and potential of cooperation to underpin real systems change in pursuit of an inclusive green economy that puts people and planet front and centre.

#coops #climate

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

Hey Latin nerds, is there some word that is the antonym of panacea? The online thesauruses are just giving me words like "disease" that don't express the universality of panacea. Is pandolor a thing? Panamal, perhaps?

"Renegade" economist and renowned author Kate Raworth will speak on new tools in Economics for the 21st century. The event is free and will be held virtually on Saturday, November 12 at 2 PM EDT New York City, 7 PM GMT London via Schumacher Center for a New Economics 💚👇

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAy-pnUq7YK_fSDkz4OOjGmcpCa2zt6r1G88Ig-Oo5n-UdOg/viewform

Wow, #eJabberd wird zusätzlich das #Matrix -Protokoll unterstützen.

#^Matrix protocol added to ejabberd

Even if it is not as scalable as XMPP, we believe that we can make Matrix much more scalable than what it is now. That’s what we are doing right now.

As a first step, we have been working on implementing a large subset of the Matrix protocol as a bridge in ejabberd.

It means that an ejabberd server will be able to act as a Matrix server in the Matrix ecosystem. XMPP users will be able to exchange messages with Matrix users, transparently.

To do that, we implemented the Matrix protocol for conversations and the server-to-server protocol to allow interop between XMPP and Matrix protocol.

Video viewing and panel discussion of FOOD COOP organized by GEO.Coop

"All is not perfect in the Park Slope Food Co-op. There was a labor organizing effort that did not succeed, and PSFC is often criticized as "elitist." What is your view? Many in the food cooperative movement have said it couldn't be duplicated, but a food co-op based on this model now exists in Paris (French filmmakers made this film)..."

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-new-yorks-park-slope-food-co-op-tickets-429352594167

The biennial Living Planet report is out. Cites near 70% loss of all wildlife on this planet since 1970. Two years ago the estimate was at 68%, four years ago, it was 60%.

"Many scientists believe we are living through the sixth mass extinction – the largest loss of life on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs – and that it is being driven by humans."

Primary driver is habitat loss due to agriculture, the vast majority of it animal agriculture and livestock feedcrops.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe