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The IRC (Biboumi) and Discord bridges (slidge.im) for XMPP work still fine and running your own server is super lightweight.

Significant improvements to certificate pinning and validation have been added to all major XMPP clients as a result of this incident, but it should also be clear that hosting a server on infrastructure under control by an antagonist government (see also Signal) is a very bad idea and hard to mitigate against.

https://writefreely.org/

This is the Python script for the XMPP server: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/ejabberd-auth-lemmy

And this is the documentation for our Dokuwiki auth integration: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/dokuwiki-auth-lemmy

Isn't Signald generally broken right now? I think the Matrix bridge is being rewritten with another backend or so.

You could say the same about all leftist activity of the last 100 years or so. I don't find such absolute thinking to be very helpful 🤷

You you have an example of such theory? To me that smells like something Marxists would falsely claim to discredit the idea.

The slogan "building the new in the shell of the old" goes directly back to the syndicalists of the IWW, who originally used it to describe concrete action in the workplace to establish horizontal decision making structures etc. so that such worker owned cooperatives could prefigurate envisioned changes in larger society.

Prefiguration is also often used in contrast to revolutionary action. I.e. instead of waiting for or trying to instigate a revolution (which is unlikely to happen or at least not where and when you expect it), proponents of prefiguration argue that concrete actions in the here and now are more vital.

Hmm, I would call the first (after Scott) "anarchist calistenics". It's about learning to undo the conditioning of capitalist / hierachical society. It can appear a bit performative, but it is often very eye-opening for people new to anarchist concepts.

Prefiguration is about concrete actions for building community support structures that allow groups of people to have alternatives and fallbacks. It is also about planting the seeds for structures that can take over in times of disaster or societal upheaval. A tool library, even if only small, is prefiguration for example. I also consider running this Lemmy instance as a prefigurative action.

"Building the new in the shell of the old" does not refer to reforming the existing system. It acknoledges that the capitalist system can not be reformed, but will likely collapse due to internal contradictions (or the effects of climate change etc). at some point. Thus parallel structures need to be established inside the current system, to be prepared and to teach people that alternatives are possible.

Either me or the author of this text doesn't understand what prefiguration means. Because to me, what they are calling for is exactly that, prefiguration aka, actively building the new in the shell of the old. So this text is a bit confusing.

you can’t tell a person “Hey paint that fence.” and expect them how to paint that fence if they don’t know what the tools for painting are, if they don’t know what fence to paint, and even more so, if they don’t even know how to paint in the first place.

You wouldn't be able to order people around like that in the first place 🤷

The actual way would be to say "Hey, lets paint that fence together" and the problems you mention solve themselves. The theoretical term for that is "prefiguration".

This only happend after a long line of other revolutions against the local aristocracy which always ended in an appeal to the monarch as people couldn't imagine a society without one. Of course the monarch always gave only temporary concessions and later backstabbed them...

That seems unecessarily complex, but I guess you would need to explain more about your usecase.

P.S.: Samba is horrible 😅