The IWW used to have members pull security to route out planted agent provocateurs that were starting shit in mass strikes or protests. We will need that again.

Excellent article by Drew, I hope it helps push the needle in the tech sector.

As an addendum, I will say I agree with the argument put forward in your link that pacifism is a death sentence against a government willing to kill en masse regardless of what effects it would have on the world stage.

I don’t think the USA is at the point where nonviolent methods are ineffective.

https://anarchistnews.org/content/hostages-gun-militancy-and-militarism

And look at Chile in 2019: https://itsgoingdown.org/submedia-presents-interrebellium-the-estallido-social/

They brought their authoritarian government to its knees with continued non violent (in the sense of lack of firearms) resistance combined with an effective general strike.

They ultimately failed because the liberal parts of the resistance fell for the reformist bait, but it demonstrated that you don’t need violence to win if you’re able to educate the movement that reform is a trap.

This is the correct response at this point.

Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.

Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.

Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696

The worst thing about it is, even if you switch to Linux for privacy yourself, you’ll also need your friends to switch as well, otherwise if you message them on their desktop, they’re a liability, as the damn recall will be there too, leaking your data.

It’ll be hell for activists.

We will, promise! :D

I wouldn’t be too surprised if reddit was doing some action to keep Lemmy down (like down ranking posts that mention or link to Lemmy in their algorithm), but I don’t think lemm.ee shut down from any outside force attacking them, I think it was far more mundane.

A few things probably contributed:

1. Lemm.ee was the second biggest instance, that’s going to attract a fair amount of drama and trolls no matter how you slice it. If you don’t have enough mods or admins to deal with that load, it can be overwhelming.

MrKaplan of Lemmy.world mentioned that .world is able to handle their size effectively due to ensuring they have enough active mods to handle their communities so there’s less load for the admins, perhaps lemm.ee did not.

2. Their policy of non-defederation likely increased their drama and report burden, as some instances are known to have more toxic users than others, making defederation a powerful tool to make things manageable and quiet that report notification.

Combined with a lack of fresh admins to rotate out the ones getting burned out, and you’ve got a potent recipe to make the whole thing super un-fun and feel like an unappreciated slog of a job.

Paul Harrell tested birdshot at 100 yards. It fails to penetrate a t-shirt, and gets very few hits at that range.

LuckyGunner tested Buckshot at 100 yards. It was still deadly, but few pellets will hit.

Shotgun Slugs are effective out to 100 yards.

The Spanish Civil War was Anarchists, Communists, and Liberals vs. a Hitler and Mussolini backed fascist Dictator, Franco.

The resistance had popular support, but the lack of weapons did severely hinder the left’s effectiveness, and caused them to become reliant upon Soviet Russia for weapons supplies, which ultimately spelled their downfall as the Soviets betrayed everyone else and began rounding everyone up to execute them.

I’m not saying having a surplus of small arms in the hands of the leftists would’ve changed the outcome of the war (they also needed tanks, airplanes, and artillery), but it would’ve been a pretty big asset, had they been able to fulfill those other needs some other way as well.