I’m very happy this spoke to you, i hope my other concepts will be even more accessibility friendly, I’m also digging in studies of “age-friendly designs” and i see some pretty interesting stuff really 🤔 I’ll post again when I have something a bit more polished ! :D
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ooh happy to read that !! 😍
thanks a lot ! 😁
Well for now I’m not sure how to present this graphically… But I would like it to be much more evident that the city is powered by green energy (solar, wind power, hydroelectric power, else), and that permaculture is present in town—or at least much more nature and biodiversity as wildlife—, that there is free access to covered places for rest, recreational activities, and community gatherings/events.
I’ve also included a tiny bit of accessibility for people with disabilities, but I’d like the representation to be clearer that the city is designed with the most vulnerable people in mind (i.e., children, the elderly), and people with limited mobility—with plenty of public transportation, bike lanes, and few cars. But for now, I have to admit I’m still stuck in my old mindset of cities where cars and verticality dominate, so it’s a bit of a mental stretch to rethink everything…
I’m trying to draw up plans for small sections of the city and it looks like a puzzle hahaEdit : Also I’m very up to any advice or ideas, so if anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to share them
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?
1·5 days agoactually, haven’t thought to say that when I was in the discution, but that’s a neat argument/solution
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Meta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•SLRPNK Community Discussion - April 2026English
12·24 days agoOh woah, this was such a ride ! you went all out on that one, thanks for this post it was hilarious 😂 i’m hoping comerade 5 will come back sometimes to make us laugh :')
This is a good one 😂😂
exactly !
I like to do vegan “lardons” / vegan bacon bits with it, nothing too complicated, I cut the tofu in little bits, pour them in a medium hot greased pan (it works better with firm thawed tofu), and i wait until they get a bit golden. In the meantime I prepare hot water for some smokey tea (I dont have liquid smoke where i live). Then when i think they are well fried, I poor over some soy sauce and I sauté them, coating them evenly. And lastly I add my smoked tea, i’d say for measurement the tofu should be covered, and a little bit of oil. I wait for the tofu to drink up the tea and oil (if there’s too much i remove the excess) and voila !! I put this in pastas, salad or tart ^^
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?
1·1 month agoHahaha, but actually when i see what’s going on in the real world and how much people sleep on it, it does feels like the greatest satire ! I really don’t see much a difference between the book your describing and what’s really happening…
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?
3·1 month agoah yeah, that’s the trap when you try to answer such a leading question… I totally forget to see the big picture in all aspects of such an infrastructure !
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?
2·1 month agoYeah ! I guess he IS missing the point ! And so was I trying to respond to a “technical oriented” question with a technical oriented answer… the labor camp bus metaphor is like a slap in the face, thanks for the insight, it’s really interesting
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?
3·1 month agoThanks for these insights! Very very interesting.
As I’m keen to self-host as soon as I can afford it, I’ll bear this in mind. The immediate conclusion, in any case, is that large-scale infrastructure consumes far more energy than self-hosting ever could, and this is down to all the terrible choices they’ve made that led us to abandon them.
As for the long term, having read your replies, I find it interesting to think that this minor drawback can be resolved or managed through green energy decisions and simply better management of needs. I was reading the article posted earlier on ‘The small tech neighbourhood’ and I can see that all of this is, on the contrary, very proactive and sustainable.
Thanks very much – all this information is really useful (and should be widely shared, for all beginners like me or potential future beginners like my friend) !Honestly, It’s sometimes hard to have a constructed point of view to encourage the federated way when the big corps have had so much power on our reflections… Like I know I’m fighting against this or that but the reasons why are somehow blurred, and even if my senses tell me something is wrong, i still have to search and ask questions to get words to support my ideas. The words don’t come naturally, and it’s frustrating when the opposite message is constantly being hammered home everywhere
That took me by surprise 😂😂
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aesthetic@slrpnk.net•To me Caravan sandwitch really nailed the solarpunk aesthetic
4·2 months ago😍 noice, my pleasure
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Meta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•SLRPNK Community Discussion - March 2026English
3·2 months ago😁🙌 So happy to be able to contribute actively, the whole instance is such a treat, i feel like a child seeing so many people sharing the same values / intests !
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Meta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•SLRPNK Community Discussion - March 2026English
7·2 months agoAh nice, thanks for the link ! okay, I understand, thanks for the explanations, i’m still trying to understand the complexity of the fediverse, but it seems so logical now ! Also i have contacted @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net to help mod the art and aesthetic communities, and we were wondering how adding someone as a mod worked.
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Meta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•SLRPNK Community Discussion - March 2026English
6·2 months agoThanks for that excellent post, I have a questions, what’s the “alternative f-hub link” to donate exclusively to slrpnk ? Also another one is : when you say technically help those community transition to their own instance, it means that they will no longer be part of slrpnk even though they are solarpunk oriented ? Would that make them less accessible ?
Omg this is SUCH a treat 😍😌🔥
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Meta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•SLRPNK Community Discussion - February 2026English
4·2 months agoThanks for the post, it was much appreciated, i hope everyone is doing well ! About the no border/no country community rule, I guess some kind of compromise would be to create one community for all countries ? Like people would have a place to post in there language on the matter of solarpunk/nature/techno hippyness in theit country, and maybe sign the title with a country flag and/or the country code, so it’s easily recognizable, and that way everyone can feel like its culture has a little place (as it is an english speaking instance) ? It’s just an idea, also i’ve not been here for so long so if it already exists dont mind me ~





not only in the usa unfortunately ;-;