To suggest some things not directly related to the workplace:

• look into things like community pantries and community gardens, https://www.detroitagriculture.net/ is a good example of what can be achieved over several years
• try to match up within your neighborhood unemployed adults and low-income parents who need babysitters on weekends or outside of school hours
• try to convince the (relatively) more wealthy members of your community to help organize free breakfast for the neighborhood kids
• organize study/homework sessions for the neighborhood kids and/or adult learners

These are all ways to increase the resilience of your community and reduce their dependency on their paychecks. These will also increase trust and reflexive solidarity between community members. This in turn starts making unions and strikes feasible.

I wish I could ask trump if that means I can assassinate him to save America. And do so live on television, unprompted.

Maybe it’s already too late for that to stem the tide.

funny, this seems similar to how Gordon Ramsey demonstrates “perfect scrambled eggs” in a youtube video I once saw. He basically just pulls the eggs off of the fire every 15 seconds or so.

“possibilité de finaliser votre accès au portail sécurisé” alors que les places sont limitées ?! Doit bien avoir un contexte qui rend ça pas étonnant, mais non ça me terrifie quand même de lire ça et imaginer le service d’administration cantonale des impôts être géré de fond en comble de la sorte…

Bernhardt tweeted in January 2025: “The dead internet theory is coming to fruition.” And he’s doing his part.

… we live in a farce

A second good read is her follow-up/response post: Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization

I think you are referring to https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Yeah, federation really is the killer feature for this compared to all of these centralized private services.

Sadly, I expect federation won’t be foolproof/enough on its own. The fascists control more and more of the USA government. If/when they come after the fediverse it will be through whichever mechanism suffices to neuter it, including:

• A “great American firewall” to cut off instances hosted outside the country
• mandatory registration for any citizen leasing a domain name or a static IP address
• forced rootkits on all citizen devices

and all they’ll have to say is “China/Russia/Europe/Iran/etc is infiltrating our glorious social media and making it unpatriotic” to justify it.

They don’t really need to truly “kill” the fediverse, they just need to make using it enough of a pain in the ass and/or dangerous that not enough people use it for it to matter.

Anyways, the point of my comment is to encourage everyone who cares about this to try spending a little thought towards fail-safes for when federation won’t be enough, and/or things we could be doing now to further protect our capacity to form these independent online communities.

If they do crack down on Reddit, it’ll be one of the few opportunities we will have to “get ahead” on public sentiment and help people get accustomed to federated social media. Each additional person that is participating in the fediverse raises its resilience - from instance operating to moderation to sharing and cross posting.

Ideally we would see x new instances crop up for every y new participants. With a more reactive approach of spinning up instances as existing ones get taken down, I fear we would set ourselves up for a slow fragmentation into obscurity.

You might be thinking of https://geminiprotocol.net/

The last thing I want to do is to make some flippant remark, but holy hell. I saw his release picture before fully parsing the title, and thought he was a Holocaust / concentration camp survivor.