Unless they have an active IT department that is already hosting various websites for them, it is probably better to show them some hosted offer like this: https://masto.host/

As for your questions:

1. Medium difficulty as far as self-hosting goes. Mastodon is a Ruby on Rails app.
2. Really depends on the number of users etc.
3. See no. 2. a few hundred $ or so.
4. As others have mentioned, let them make an account on an existing server first, it can be migrated to your own server later.

Why wouldn’t that be Solarpunk? Because there is an electric vehicles community on this instance? You are jumping to conclusions honestly.

CEO of Nvidia. FU Nvidia!

Not really what you are asking for, but I found the combination of KaraDAV and Filestash to be a great alternative to Nextcloud, and much more stable for basic use.

As for Owncloud… I am skeptical of the company behind them ever since they split off into them and Nextcloud. Probably better to avoid, regardless of what you think of Nextcloud.

Obviously you can’t describe that in detail in a manifesto, but it makes it clear that anything not anti-authoritarian can not be called Solarpunk without completely perverting the idea. That is a form of protection against co-optation of ideas.

I think you need to read the manifesto again more carefully if you don’t see how it was quite intentionally designed to be anti-authoritarian. You simply can’t have a “Solarpunk” authoritarian state, it would be a direct contradiction of the terms. The same is not true about “bright green environmentalism” despite the overall progressive terms that are used to describe the idea.

Any political leader that decides to adopt it.

What I mean is that contrary to Solarpunk there are no built in protections against cooptation by an authoritarian but eco-concious government.

If you need it you will find it, and if you don’t, maybe it is unncessary clutter in your life that would be better to get rid off in a yard sale asap?

I still don’t see where the punk is in that. “Radical” is a politically neutral term that can just as well be applied to a top-down radical reorganisation of society.

It led me to learn that there is a label that more or less matches solarpunk in political theory: Bright Green Environmentalism

Not really, as this concept doesn’t say much about power-structures and is rather a description of Singapur like futuristic eco-authoritarianism.

Solarpunk without the punk (and anarchism) isn’t Solarpunk.

One example she offered was using Starship to launch a satellite. If that satellite was not working, she explained, the satellite could be brought back into Starship’s payload bay to either be repaired or returned to Earth.

So exactly like the Spaceshuttle? I doubt that will be economic in most cases even if Starship launches are significantly cheaper.

I think the more likely outcome will be much cheaper sattelites made with heavier standard components and with more fuel on board to deorbit or stabilize them if something goes wrong.

Is the source-code for this website available somewhere? Might be pretty nice to have for other instances as well.

It’s a bit confusing at first that it comes with a read only web-interface, but once you got a Mastodon app or an frontend like Phanpy set up with it, it works quite well.

We are having some odd issues with the server right now. Not sure what the cause is. As a side effect we updated to the new lemmy version 0.19.7, but I don’t think that was the cause of the issues as we did that only after the server crashed a few times.

Edit: seems to be resolved for now, but we are not sure what exactly cause it, so it might happen again.

Pre-rendered 3D models as 2D sprites. Looked quite cool back then, but IMHO aged very poorly.

If you are experiencing slow loading community avatars on the main frontend (lemmy-ui) here on SLRPNK, try deleting all site data (cookies etc.) for slrpnk.net in the privacy settings of your browser and log back in afterwards. For me at least that made a big difference (the issue is related to a bug-fix in Lemmy 0.19.6).

We will probably also update to Lemmy 0.19.7 the same time as it is only a minor bug-fix release. Edit: Done.

Lol, indeed. I must have been still half asleep when posting it.

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This is an interesting metaphor, thanks for sharing 👍