I really think the book Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin is very good on this subject, they have a sort of metaphorical religion created themselves, with many of the good community building aspects on religion.

I personally think there is much good to learn from the ways of Buddhism and Daoism, both their core ideas and some of the practice.

I use both Seafile and Syncthing for various things.

I've managed to setup seafile ok behind traefik as a reverse proxy. Seafile has a basic web front end and allows you to integrate with Collabora for editing open document files. Its fine to just shut down the docker and copy the database I've found for backup. Or you can copy the files themselves, if you don't care about the change history (which I don't). I have as script to do this each night. Seafood isn't too hefty and runs well on an RPi, even the collabora integration does.

Syncthing is a really good piece of software and I use this to share files from my RPi to my phone, but bare in mind by default its send&receive both sides so its not suitable for backups in that state.

Let me know if you want to know more.

The article says that stat about one instance not the entire fediverse...

I'm keen to hear this!

I really like the fairphone, I had a FP2 and currently have the FP4. Had a few technical issues with the FP2 but fairphone sorted them. It lasted me 5/6 years. Really happy with the FP4 so far, feel like its a real step up for them.

Currently the FP4 only comes with Google android, unless you buy it from one of those companies that will de-Google it for you like eOS. You can get LineageOS for FP4 now I believe, I used to run it on my FP2 and it worked great. Need to find the time to switch my FP4.

Feel free to ask anything and I'll do my best to answer, may not be fast cos I'm going on holiday very soon!

I'm excited to give this new version a go.

I recently finally got around to reading Anathem and was blown away, so much detail, so much going on. And from someone who reads alot of philosophy, that aspect felt like it was handled naturally in the book and not infodumped.

They are so off the mark its crazy, the future of this is streaming games services. Yea it'll be running on windows or linux at the other end and that isn't what Apple wants but its the future.

I also think that bolo'bolo should be more widely read. It's really well written and really thinks through how an alternative society could work, it often feels like an Ursula Le Guin book to me. It's critique of both capitalism and state communism as the Work Machine is pretty great.

I think its spot on about the size of community that's best for humans (a few hundred), and I like that each bolo is based around some guiding principles, I often think that's important for a community to stick together.

It's obviously not perfect or an exact blueprint but its great food for thought and I wish other plans for alternate societies were worked out in engaging detail like bolo'bolo

Agree, they love heirarchy if its formed through capital accumulation.

hey thanks very much, finally got around to this, liked Ethereal Shroud especially. Lamp of Murmuur was also great, a friend has been trying to get me into them for ages now.

thanks so much for this, ill listen through this soon :)

had no idea lamp of murmuur was rabm, a friend has been trying to get me to listen to them for a while now.

this is pretty cool thanks :) I was gonna ask for a bit of a top 10 of recent stuff. I was on the original RABM forum back in the day but I've been out of touch for the last few years (just not had so much time to check out new music), but I've been trying again recently and found Gravpel and Tresspasser to be fantastic.

I finally got around to checking out this band recently and its soooo good

yea this is probably the core of the problem, people -including leftists who want to change everything- don't actually like to change much in their personal life

whilst I agree with you wholeheartedly, sadly from what I've seen many anarchists do not want to see or make this connection.

this is a very good point, I've not thought of it this way before.

I've never seen these connected before, id say anti-natalism is more connected with anarcho-nihilism.

likewise, I try to make my snacks fruit and nuts, and I try to make sure my meals involve a few vegetables. I also take the uk vegan society multivitamin just to be sure. I put nutrional yeast in stuff now and again and eat quite alot of Marmite(Vegemite, which has alot of b12.)

I don't track, I don't think you need to bother, I've been vegan 14 ish years and I'm fine :)

I totally get you, it's sometimes so hard to think outside of the bounds of capitalism that infests our every waking moment, like I say I'm no expert and don't have all the answers but I'm convinced that the ability to have a stateless non-capitalist society is there if we dream hard enough.

The society envisaged in bolo'bolo (well worth a read!) Tries to build in the ability to freely travel between bolos, because that sort of shit is important if we want localism but some benefits of wider mixing and the town 20 miles away not becoming a weird place we just don't understand in our village and hence start to fear and otherise.

for my downvoters by 'they' I meant those calling anarchists idealists, I was accusing them of having a poor imagination and failing to dream.

I get the impression this person is very young and trying to find their way in the complex world of having ethics.

I'm still considering this person in good faith and that they aren't concern trolling at this moment, but time will tell.

because they have run out of good ideas and have given up?

As metawish said above it's very important to know what sort of relationship you have with these people. It's not very effective to go around making out of the blue quite drastic(for the current society) demands and expecting people to just do those things, it's just going to have the opposite effect of cutting those people off from you.

It sounds like you're quite young so I would suggest the answer might be nothing. Perhaps at most just sow some distrust of the very idea of landlordism or owning property in this way (sort of life real life meme magic). For instance I like to ask the open question "what does a boss even do?" (I seem to remember this comes from malatesta), an open question like this isn't that confrontational and won't have much immediate effect but the other person may go away and ponder over this question, they may not even come to the conclusion you'd have liked but at least they've have started to give it some thought rather than just presume it's the way it always should be.

But if you really think you have a good relationship with these people where you could sit down and talk seriously to these people about the ills on society of being a landlord then go for it, but don't expect them to change right away.

I think it's very black and white thinking to suppose that a single use case gives the green light to a practise such as landlording. Just to be clear I take that landlordism always involves someone owning a house and charging another rent to live there.

Within a non-market anarchist society I'm pretty sure we could figure out a way to provide a space to live for those who would prefer to be transitory. It might be an odd example but it's the one that comes to mind, but buddhist monasteries in medieval china always maintained guest quarters for travellers. I don't have all the answers but it's easy to see that this situation isn't rocket science and could easily be fixed without resorting to landlordism.

As for upkeep/maintenance, those who cannot do this would surely be helped by their community, this is the entire point of anarchist mutual aid.

I find it very strange to be on an anarchist community with people advocating for landlordism.

I don't know about where you live obviously but here in the uk there isn't really any surplus of housing in rural areas, in fact many rural villages are being taken over by second home owners and airbnb rentals, which drives up the price on the few remaining houses, leaving the more built up areas where most property is bought buy landlords to be let.

I'm pretty sure a 'perfect' anarchist society could help people who can't do so to maintain their homes as well as having lodgings for those who don't want to live in one place for long, these aren't rocket science.

being a landlord or owning a second house is a big no no, I cant see any situation its good in, its directly exploitative, even if they are renting it for cost value they're still gaining the capital on the house, they've taken a house off the market that someone else could have owned themselves as their actual home and been paying the mortgage on. this is a bit of a market based argument but still, even under those circumstances its unethical.

its also just a way for people who have alot of money to make even more money from that money, and accelerate away from those without much money.

the veganfreak podcast said it best IMHO, primarily you need to be a healthy and happy vegan , you need to present to people a positive vision of what being a vegan might be like to them, it needs to be something they could see themselves doing. Be happy, be excited about what you eat , share that with others. I know billions of animals get murdered each day and we need to stop that but I think the slow game I laid out above is the only real way.

yea exactly this, I've been vegan a long time, it takes alot of patience and slow education of others in my experience.

sadly I think all the bottom modules are sold out in the uk store, think ill have to check if mines in warranty. looking forward to when android 9 gets pushed out to me :)

yea I sorta forget that I've had alot of trouble with bottom modules too, thanks for the heads up about them

I couldn't get lemme to work at all, try lemmur, its really nice, its not the same as lemur though

having said that most of the food I cook and rely on isn't "first" world. Indian, Chinese, middle eastern, african peanut stew! But it's a privilege to have the choice.

we are so spoiled here now, compared to 10 years ago(in the uk) it's like the golden age. 10 years ago we had no good vegan cheese (cheezly was horrid), there was only really soy milk which I hated on cereal and in coffee to the point I stopped eating cereal and started on black tea and coffee! vege burgers were the beans and rice kind (I still have a soft spot) and Linda McCartney sausages have just been eternally the same! You had to do alot of research to eat out or use happycow and go elsewhere while your friends went somewhere you could only get chips!

Now we have the beyond burger, oat milk, so many vegan restaurants or options that it's impossible to choose, and vegan blue cheese ("veganzola" is the one!) there's even ready meals if you are into that sort of thing.

having read through all the discussion below I think some nicely exposed multilemmy type functionality would let people achieve what they want.

I've only just found multireddits myself and really love the way I can pull together various feeds that work for me.

I'm very happy about this, had a fairphone 2 for 4-5 years now and its still doing alright. they've upgraded from I think android 5 to 6 to 7 in that time but hit a speed bump when android stopped supporting the chip in it so they had to hire a team of programmers to get android 9 working.

and the batteries, along with alot else in the fairphone 2, are replaceable, the batteries tend to last about 2 years before they need replacing. I'm trying to keep mine going till fairphone 4 is out.

I think I may go for lineage os at some point in the future though because google are evil.

I too had presumed that there was going to be a way to federate communities across instances into one feed, based on the mutual agreement of course.

totally agree with you, people who expect an end to this are in for a shock. plus we should expect more frequent pandemics due to deforestation driving species closer together. we'll need to learn survive and operate on this terrain.