Thanks for the reminder! Just joined the community

You're free to just ignore the post. Was anyone bragging ? Criterion is one of the first and if a company can love anything they have shown their love for film over the years. They are one company and don't own film so I don't understand the animosity. There are plenty of other companies. People in this community are presumably interested in posts about this topic but sounds like it's not for you, friend.

If you liked "Florida Man", you're gonna love "Florida Woman"

They're revolting because it already has and they haven't been given a voice https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/six-killed-in-nepal-amid-gen-z-protests-after-social-media-ban-all-to-know

The concern is that suddenly Meta will make up the biggest part of the Fediverse and exert too much power as a company, which they don't have a good record for, over the non-corporate Fediverse. Historically this would allow them to "embrace, extend, extinguish" the Fediverse that many love and have spent years building.

It's no secret that Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL was recorded and heard by many saying "We don't have a left / right problem. We have a young / old problem. We have a TikTok problem" It's pretty clear that TikTok finally caved in to the ADL's demands, just like other centralized social media companies.

I don't think it's just you. It does seem a bit pessimistic / fatalistic at first glance, especially the headline, but it's clearly a more complicated issue once you read through. You're right, the issue isn't solar energy but more about being careful about how it's put to use and the impact thereof. If anything it shows the dangers of expecting capitalism to save us and issues we run into if we try to take the easy way out. We know the issue exists now so it's more a question of what next.

Not at all. They're demanding anti-corruption, jobs, healthcare, etc . Another article with some background

One advantage over wordpress is that it avoids bringing its parent company, Automatic, into the Fediverse.

From Wikipedia:

In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress to Midjourney and OpenAI.

The article calls the allegations agains UNRWA "explosive" yet they are completely unconfirmed . WME was once the agency of Charlie Chaplin who sympathetically depicted immigrants and refugees and was forced into exile by Washington during the McCarthy era witch hunts. If they currently find it controversial for one of their clients to share a fundraiser for people in need, they are allowing those same cycles to repeat and it may be time to find a new agency.

The article is focusing on California as an example so that doesn't seem entirely necessary but you could look to Norway to discover how they deal with this:

Vertical Panels are one solution as are Snow Repellent Panels and heated solar panels

The article could definitely use an editor

Finally we have corporate sponsorship!

The article has several links to sources which go into greater detail, each containing their own sources such as this which contains more design info you may find helpful.

There was never any lag in service. I'm on that instance. I believe the person was raided due to their activism and had a backup of some data but not the actual server. They made an announcement and told people to change their passwords. Many lost a degree of trust but are being as transparent as possible with members. https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

I've heard a lot about Palestinians using solar to power several electronic devices in Gaza but it was primarily from Arab media sources like Al Jazeera. While this was on the much more corporate and mainstream news it was easy to miss without actively looking for it. You bring up a good point and I wonder if there's more use of solar energy happening there, especially in dire conditions, that we're missing out on as it's not typically covered by major news sources. Hopefully we'll be reading more stories like this in the future.

The headline does seem a little like clickbait. Thanks for looking into it and sharing what you found.

“Betrayed by this town / Let’s burn it all down “ might be the most relevant chorus of today’s music. It’ll be stuck in my head all night and would fit right in at most protests

I imagine the mods of this community might have a more thorough answer but for me the short answer is "no" or "not exactly". It's most of the things you just mentioned although AI probably won't be super popular to everyone here. The Solarpunk Manifesto states: "Solarpunk envisions a built environment creatively adapted for solar gain, amongst other things, using different technologies. The objective is to promote self sufficiency and living within natural limits" . In many ways it's a reaction to AnPrim that embraces technology and optimism about the future and I haven't seen any AnPrims write about their positive views of our movement.