(Sorry if this is too off-topic:) ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services, or at least I feel like that. And it endlessly frustrates me.

The reason is even though IPv6 addresses are widely available (unlike IPv4), most ISPs won't allow consumers to request a static rather than a dynamic IPv6 prefix along with a couple of IPv6 reverse DNS entries.

Instead, this functionality is gatekept behind expensive premium or even business contracts, in many cases even requiring legal paperwork proving you have a registered business, so that the common user is completely unable to self-host e.g. a fully functional IPv6-only mail server with reverse DNS, even if they wanted to.

The common workaround is to suck up to the cloud, and rent a VPS, or some other foreign controlled machine that can be easily intercepted and messed with, and where the service can be surveilled better by big money.

I'm posting this since I hope more people will realize that this is going on, and both complain to their ISPs, but most notably to regulatory bodies and to generally spread the word. If we want true digital autonomy to be more common, I feel like this needs to be fixed for consumer landline contracts.

Or did I miss something that makes this make sense outside of a big money capitalist angle?

Slrpnk and lemmy are great, and I understand they are volunteer driven. With this post I don't mean to be pushy, and I'm grateful for this place and the software, but I hope it's useful to point out where there might be trouble for users down the line:

So I might be missing something, but there seems to be no way to delete a private message, not even after reporting it. Given the nasty things some people may send just to mess with somebody, this seems like a dangerous omission to me that is at a high risk to lead to grief if not addressed at some point. Is there some bug tracker where perhaps this omission could be best pointed out?

My apologies if I'm missing something however. Perhaps I'm just too silly to see the button, it's happened before.

I've read rumors in various places that another Pi 500 version at a separate price point with perhaps an SSD slot might be in the works. Also, obviously there would be another RAM tier to use, if there were ever to be a version targeting power users.

But does anybody know if anything concrete for these rumors ever showed up? Was there ever any confirmation whether such a different tier Pi 500 is even being thought about?

Sorry if there was news and I just missed it.

There seems to be some technical problem when trying to subscribe to other instances, unless it's simply me doing something wrong.

Here is what I tried to do:

1. Open https://lemmy.ml/c/librewolf
2. Click "Subscribe"
3. Enter "slrpnk.net" and press "Fetch community"
4. You should get redirected to https://slrpnk.net/activitypub/externalInteraction?uri=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fc%2Flibrewolf but for me that simply shows "Server error"

Did I do it the wrong way? It seems like there might be a bug here.

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/569180 (I thought it was a really cool discussion topic!)

Original post text:

I have a couple and I just honestly dont even know where to begin

So, do you have any? I've personally had some that at first seemed exciting but on more reflection, I didn't quite figure out yet how to make the premise really shine

I hope this place can be a community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what’s new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing! Non-fiction definitely also welcome, or anything that might have a solarpunk spin in particular (not that it's needed!).

If you're new to this community, consider introducing yourself in the comments here: https://slrpnk.net/post/2054336

Also, make sure to check out the rules in the sidebar, I hope you'll find them to be sensible.

This post is an invitation for any writers that happen to jump into this community to introduce themselves. You can talk about what genres or types of writing you like to do, how it's going, what pets you may have, whether you have seen the sun enough this summer (I sure haven't, been stuck revising too much! Haha), what informs your writing, or whatever!

Please avoid downright linking author websites or books here to keep down the self promo a little. But if you just mention the title of your works that's fine, but try to use this discussion more as opportunity for others to get to know you.