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 🌟

  • !immigration@slrpnk.net - Discuss migration, immigration, emigration, deportation, & expatriation, here.
  • !community_community@slrpnk.net - learn how we can make communities better - create the ones we would like to see in the world, and improve the ones we happen to be in.
  • !foraging@slprnk.net - come together to explore the bountiful wonders of the natural world and share our knowledge of gathering wild goods!

🏚️ A Call for Moderators! 🏡

Every so often, we check the health of our communities to prune inactive or abandoned ones, and to hopefully save active ones where the moderators have become absent. We’ve found 5 communities in need of new moderators:

As a moderator, you’d be in charge if handling user reports on posts or comments within the community, and occasionally checking it ensure there’s no spam posted. Most of those communities are very laid back, and won’t require much input. Pleasant Politics will likely require a bit more attention due to its subject matter.

If any of those sound appealing to you, and you’d like to help keep them alive, let us know in the comments below! Stepping up to moderate is a great way to help out the instance :)

🔇 Defederation with Lemmy.org 🔕

A Lemmy.ca admin has recently brought to our attention that Lemmy.org is actively being used as a platform for vote manipulation, likely due to their lax sign-up requirements. Unfortunately Lemmy.org’s admin has been unresponsive weeks after they were messaged about this issue.

Due to the extra workload this places on admins to effectively prevent or moderate, Lemmy.ca has chosen to defederate from Lemmy.org. We have also chosen to defederate from Lemmy.org, at least until their admin returns and takes effective action against the issues raised.

Lemmy.org is a small instance with only one active community, and it is unlikely this defederation will effect any of our users. You can check to see if you are subscribed to any of their communities via looking at the subscription list in your user profile settings.

🌽 Meta Post Image: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 🐾

Published in 2021, the novel The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson tells the story of several generations of Dakota / Sioux women who fight to preserve their way of life against encroachment by colonialism and forced integration. ‘Seed Keeper’ refers literally to people who sewed seeds into the hems of their garments as they were forcefully displaced from Minnesota so they would still be able to grow their own food.

Diane Wilson is the former Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people.

Solarpunk the social movement and solarpunk the literary movement are inseparable, and we’re proud to host and feature several budding writers and their books on our shared platform. Check out !writing@slrpnk.net community, Solarpunk story and world-building elements on our wiki, !fiction@slrpnk.net, and collaborative storytelling games like !fullyautomatedrpg@slrpnk.net by SLRPNK members @JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net and @andrewrgross@slrpnk.net.

🌍🌐 No borders, no nations! New community rule? 🚧🛑

We have been mulling over introducing a new rule in regards to community creation here on SLRPNK. As a thematic instance we naturally try to keep things a bit on topic although obviously that can be subjective and the boundaries of what is and what isn’t on-topic are intentionally somewhat fuzzy.

One theme has cropped up now and then though and that is country specific communities which we feel are a bit out of place on SLRPNK. Not only because they usually focus on country (or region) specific political topics, often in a language that is not commonly spoken by our members, but also because Solarpunk is an international and explicitly migration friendly movement. Of course, a country specific community is not automatically xenophobic, but a certain level of nationalism is almost unavoidable and frankly speaking the very notion of nation states is something we as Solarpunks should strive to overcome.

Or to put it a bit differently: In an ideal Fediverse world you would open a solarpunk community on region specific instance and not open a region specific community on a general solarpunk instance. But we are still a bit away from this…

So what do y’all think about this? Should we restrict the creation of such communities here on SLRPNK and ask existing communities previously created to slowly move elsewhere? We would be of course also happy to give advise how to host a Piedfed or Lemmy instance yourself for a language or region specific instance.

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you’d like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via our F-hub donation site: https://contribute.f-hub.org/

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!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    The wiki and Movim is temporarily unavailable, will try to fix the issue tomorrow.

    Edit: should be back and hopefully I fixed the issue.