#dualpower — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dualpower, aggregated by home.social.
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"You are not watching the system fail, you are watching a system succeed at something you didn't realize it was designed to do."
- Tristan Johnson from Step Back#ice #law #usa #weprotectus #system #machine #performative #takeitoffline #mutualaid #dualpower #panthers #decentralized #asphyxiatingcognitivedissonance
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If we think of the most powerful people as misanthropic Malthusian accelerationists that are aware of how bad the climate catastrophe is getting, many of their behaviours make sense. I'm not saying this is the whole absolute reality, but the data fits and the causal mechanisms are logically sound. If someone else can provide a more correct model, particularly if it changes the following conclusions, I am interested.
If we accept this model, it follows directly that they view the majority (>90%) of humanity as something between a disposable resource to exploit to death and a direct enemy to be destroyed as soon as possible.
Given that conclusion, I ask if it does not follow that all means of self defense and rebellion against them are not justified? Any attempts to dissuade them is against a short timeline of real threat and the urgency this model assumes they are already operating under.
Any other possible models or conclusions are invited. Pearl clutching and explicit (legally actionable) calls to action will be ignored. And any proposed elaborations or improvemrnts are welcome.
#ecology #anarchism #climatechange #economics #dualpower #weprotectus #MutualAid #LibrarySocialism -
@ErikUden While in principle I like your partys organizational principles the best, its still electoralism and material forces will cause capitalists to infiltrate and corrupt your party, remember 100 years ago labour was a party of the labour movement
You're right that changes are fought for on the ground but we cant let the bells and whistles of party organising hamper the movement, mutual aid is not charity, as soon as our movement becomes solely dependant on investment from yourparty we will become party organs. I'm not saying dont take the money because initial set up can take a lot of cash but dont become dependant on it, build dual power directly coops and mutual aid structures of all kinds
#Electoralism #YourParty #UnitedKingdom #Anarchism #DualPower #MutualAid #GreenParty #LabourParty #LabourMovement
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Community building is one of the most important, but often overlooked, forms of activism. Organize that book club, get together people you know to swap old clothes and items, invite your neighbors over for coffee and cake. It's harder to turns people against their neighbors when they actually know them and see them as humans. And you never know what might come out of it.
#leftism #activism #anarchism #communism #community #communityOrganizing #anarchocommunism #dualpower #communityBuilding -
Community building is one of the most important, but often overlooked, forms of activism. Organize that book club, get together people you know to swap old clothes and items, invite your neighbors over for coffee and cake. It's harder to turn people against their neighbors when they actually know them and see them as humans. And you never know what might come out of it.
#leftism #activism #anarchism #communism #community #communityOrganizing #anarchocommunism #dualpower #communityBuilding
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Class War and the Moral Bankruptcy of the West: A Call to Arms
The ruling class knows what it is doing. They understand the iron law of class struggle, even as they labor tirelessly to obscure it from the masses…
#Billionaires #Corporatocracy #ClassWar #USA #Empire #Bourgeois #Domination #Proletariat #Lifeblood #MoralDecay #Society #PunchDown #Lies #History #DirectAction #Politics #CommonStruggle #DualPower #Workplaces #Communities #Neighborhoods #Solidarity
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Episode 5.7: Building Dual Power, with Andre Rosario [aka HydroponicTrash]
André Rosario (aka HydroponicTrash) joins us this week on the podcast to tell Ariel all about dual power - what it is, how it fits in with solarpunk, and how people can mobilize it in their daily lives. Their conversation ranges from the history of the term dual power, to examples from André’s own life, to the concept of mutual aid, the importance of imagining a better world, how to build relationships as an introvert, and even includes a discussion of human nature.
#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk #DualPower #HydroponicTrash #Hydroponics @hydroponictrash #MutualAid #SolarpunkFiction #BetterWorlds #SocialJustice #SocialChange #Neighborhood #Neighbourhood #CivicPower #Cities #UrbanSolarpunk
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Some of the ideas in the video (esp., about creating alternative spaces) reminds me a lot of the Czech concept of "Parallel Polis" (not related to the crypto-libertarians in Prague).
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CW:
I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up the material infrastructure.
I'm looking for collaborators.
Here it is briefly:
We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.
For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.
Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.
*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.
In the end we would have strengthened the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 foci for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.
The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward. #commons #commonstransition #transitiontown #solidarität #solidarity #solidarite #solidarityeconomy #coop #cooperative #cooperatif #deepadaptation #solarpunk #syndikat #mietshäusersyndikat #squat #intentionalcommunity #conviviality #buenvivir #agroecology #commune #clt #dualpower #prefigurative #ecosocialism -
Those of us interested in the prospect of fediverse communalization within the FediPact context should convene a broader conversation, inclusive of admins, developers and engaged community members - particularly those from marginalized or targeted backgrounds. And considering that there will be many who will want to bail out of the megaservers before they are absorbed into the Zuckerverse, the sooner a clearly defined alternative presents itself, the better.
Also, the Free Fediverse wiki continues to be updated. Among the offerings are links to:
🐸 FediPact and alternative fediverse development info
🐸 News articles and essays on Threads and the Zuckerberg takeover gambit
🐸 A ballooning selection of stories on Meta's many crimes against humanityFeel free to hop on over to https://freefediverse.org
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism
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So too, gender-based harassment has not only endured in the fediverse, it has been perpetuated by some of its most privileged participants, as observed in a recent controversy involving a stream of abuse perpetuated by a very visible megaserver admin. Who moderates the moderators?
Building a Free Fediverse comprises an opportunity to chart a course away from the predominating influence of amoral techbros who have no capacity for understanding these problems, and see the fedi primarily as an opportunity for financial investment. This piece reframes the "gatekeeping" smear aimed at FediPact advocates through a lens of envisioning the online community as a ZAD - a Zone To Defend.
https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110680030293653277
19/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #Horizontalism #ZAD
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Finally, the Free Fediverse must prioritize centering the concerns and perspectives of those from marginalized and targeted communities. This need is more acute than ever, as we arrive at a moment in which the short-term prospects for the continuity of "democracy" in countries such as the "USA" and Germany are very much in question.
These essays by @jdp23 on the history of Mastodon development makes clear the paradoxical nature of a project innovated by a vibrant community of trans and queer folk as a refuge from the fascistic tendencies of the major capitalist networks, which eventually stratified into a hierarchical, growth-oriented Twitter me-too controlled by a single person.
https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-a-partial-history/
https://privacy.thenexus.today/here-queer-and-federated-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
This analysis makes clear that the abject failure of Mastodon to provide a welcoming alternative to Black Twitter, as identified by @shengokai , was in fact inevitable.
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon
18/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism
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Tech adaptations would be necessary in any case, especially considering that well-informed observers believe switching from blocklist-based moderation to allow-list-based federation is the only way to definitively disconnect from Meta and its collaborator instances. The communal structure would make this viable. Fedifams could federate allow-lists amongst themselves, and trust-treaty caracoles could pave the way for new instances which spin up from within fams to federate in the greater network.
It could also change the nature of the instance itself. Fedifam support for internal spinups would make it easier for instances to become the initiatives of communities rather than individuals, who currently must re-invent the wheel and take on the technical and moderation burdens entirely of their own accord. Community-activated servers would be naturally inclined to a more democratic internal culture. The problems of admin burnout and micro-tyranny could be significantly lessened. And allow-list federation would slam the door shut on interlopers scheming to fabricate moral panics.
The horizontal redistribution of agency, across community members, admins, and developers, would change the game and fulfill the democratic promise of the fediverse.
17/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #DirectDemocracy
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Enabling, sustaining and coordinating more creative and forward-thinking tech development would be a necessity for the Free Fediverse. The ActivityPub protocol itself is in the process of being enclosed by Zuckerberg and his assets right now.
Fortunately there are alternative possibilities, not least among them the next-generation Spritely Goblins protocol of another AP co-author, @cwebber . More on Spritely Goblins here:
https://spritely.institute/goblins/
Supporting this effort, and combining the efforts of the numerous Masto forks into a definitive Free Fedi microblogging replacement, could be the way to build our ark and render our resolve tangible.
16/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #SpritelyGoblins
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Meanwhile, more creative technological approaches remain obstructed or ignored. This proposal from @supakaity offers the enticing and empowering prospect of granular control of all search and visibility parameters for each post: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9ev0kge0aj
The fedifam construct could be extended to developer alliances as well. This would enable a shared, stable source for crowdfunding, and the coordination of efforts toward complimentary and interoperable results.
The person at the top of the Mastodon development hierarchy actually refers to himself as a "benevolent dictator for life" - but there's no such thing as a benevolent dictator. Dictators, of any nature, do not facilitate democratic outcomes. We didn't let Vladimir Lenin get away with that "benevolent dictatorship" shit and we shouldn't let John Mastodon do so either!
15/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #DirectDemocracy
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The need for self-governance and the democratization of fedi culture is clearly indicated by the current democracy deficit of the status quo. The controversies resulting from the upcoming Mastodon feature upgrades tell the tale.
The initial and unilateral introduction of the upcoming search capability - rumored to have been a demand of Meta - took the form of a single all-or-nothing toggle which would actually have removed existing functionality for users who opted out. The sensibilities and consent concerns of fedi-folk from smaller instances and marginalized communities were only considered after an outcry.
Though a more amenable alternative was provided, there are still serious concerns about the performance toll of these new functionalities on small and self-hosted servers. They are now mainly being beta-tested on megaservers, which means negative impacts both technical and cultural may only become apparent when it's too late to reverse course.
14/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #DirectDemocracy
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