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  • most of these people have been indoctrinated into thinking anarchists are violent, dangerous weirdos and don’t have any interest in our new society.

    People depending on the help of others (as those refugees would) tend to be surprisingly open-minded and would likely come to see the advantages of such a society rather quickly. It is usually only when they are met with hostility and cramped into refugee camps that they turn on the country hosting them. And in general anarchists are well accustomed having to deal with people with all sorts of differing ideas, so they will likely work out something that is acceptable for everyone.


  • This is such a sad world view that you have.

    And kinda ironic given that you are writing this on a platform developed and run by such highly qualified individuals not because they are paid for it or forced to do it, but because they think it is the right thing to do. And there are so many similar example all over the world, not only in the digital realm. And you know what? People that live somewhere tend to appreciate working water supply and sewerage systems and are willing to fix it themselves if not prevented by some government or company. It’s not that hard to do, and I have personally done it before.


  • That was probably caused by me trying to turn on the old.slrpnk.net frontend yesterday after the update, but it ended up being scraped heavily again by what appears to be bot accounts. I turned it off again a few minutes ago and at least here the site feels more responsive again.

    But then there are also the occasional load spikes that I think are related to an database / filesystem issue, which I will try to fix this weekend, but not 100% sure if that will solve those performance issues.


  • American Indians were mostly killed by the germs that the European invaders accidentally brought. In actual battles the Europeans didn’t fair so well as they were usually vastly outnumbered and the Europeans that defected or got captured mostly preferred to stay with the Indians afterwards. And yes, never trust history written by the winners.





  • That is not exactly a credible source. To quote the wikipedia on it:

    A number of international and Kurdish sources have described Rudaw as affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, particularly the current President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani.

    Rudaw Media Network was temporarily banned in Syrian Kurdistan due to its partisan news and alleged smear campaigns against the Kurdish political parties which oppose the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a ruling political party led by the Barzani family members.

    And besides, you are really arguing that a semi-functional, mostly representative organ in the middle of a civil war doesn’t have the resources to maintain sewers?





  • Well… there has been some recent museings about something like that from the CEO of Element, but it would effectively cause a two class federation where some servers can not work independently of others (likely in reality mainly servers running on EMS infrastructure, a bit like how in Bluesky you can’t really work fully independent of their infra, and yes Bluesky was explicitly mentioned as inspiration for that idea).

    Having those two options fully independent would basically mean reimplenting xmpp in json as an incompatible alternative protocol and that would make little sense IMHO.





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    While Synapse isn’t great, the problem is that the Matrix protocol is over-designed for a very specific purpose (distributed rooms), that comes with a severe performance penalty but most people don’t actually need this for chat.

    Its one of these cases of a neat idea on paper, but ultimately a solution looking for a problem.

    That said, Matrix isn’t that bad overall, but there are better options like XMPP.