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.