Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
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In response to the last bit OP said.
Yesterday one of my coworkers mentioned that a lot of people in their 20s are into 90s stuff now, to an extent that our generation (people who grew up in the 90s) didn't feel about prior decades. She posited that the idea behind it is "breaking free of technology" for a generation that never lived in a world without it.
I'm not close to many people in their 20s these days and I don't use TikTak or any other social media, so I don't know how accurate that is. But if that is the case, I can totally understand wanting to escape to a tech-free world.
Knowing and experiencing a disconnected world is one of the few things I wouldn't give up from childhood. I was enamored with the Internet when popular adoption began in the mid to late 90s but it was a separate world that you could actually exit. I could still communicate with peers and friends without this layer of memes and affected irony between us.
Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they've grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
Probably beating a dead horse here on Lemmy, but Linux genuinely gave me the joy of tech back. I spent about two hours last night setting up a VM running a headless factorio server, and every minute was fun... Well, maybe not fun, but engaging at least. I ran into like 2 hoops I had to jump through, had to tinker with my router settings, and had to modify some config files using a text editor in the console, and of course the directions were wrong/incomplete, so I had to do a little bit of reading to see exactly what needed to be done. Now I have a server for my friends and I to play on, I learned some new things, and I got more confident with some other things.
Also, if anyone is curious, dual core and 8GB RAM is absolutely overkill for a Factorio server VM. I'm using like 2GB max, and ~5% of a single processor under "load".
I really appreciate even just not having the feeling that whatever current problem is caused by greed of the company I gave a bunch of money to for the most important bit of software. And not asking no one the rhetorical question of who fucking owns my PC anyways, me or MS. Even if I had to refund one game that looked really fun (logistical iirc, or something along those lines wanted some msvc or .net dll and I gave up before I got it, though others on protondb mentioned getting it running).
where does one join such server , maybe I'll save it if I ever come back to factorio
Private server, sorry.
But, the multiplayer server finder still has tons of servers listed.
I was thinking about advertising mine there so my friends wouldn't need my direct IP to connect (and also, I don't have a static IP at home, so it would take care of some possible recurring IP issues).
As someone who has been interested in retro, vintage, and antique technology since I was a preteen for me at least it's just the simplicity of it all. An old light from say the 1950s breaks and it's like 4 components max and there's a pretty good chance it's just something that needs to be tightened or cleaned, meanwhile a modern light breaks and it's almost always a fucking board meaning I can't fix it by just tightening a screw and fuck me if it has touch controls.
I will say I do like plenty of modern tech for example the FM transmitter in my truck or my computers but holy fuck I had to shop around just to find a fan that didn't need WiFi and I still got one where it's optional.
I miss DIY culture so much. I grew up impoverished so replacement wasn't always an option for us. I learned basic household repair and electronics just by watching the adults in my family do appliance repairs or tinker with old radio equipment.
I would take this notion or feeling more genuienly if said people then actually stopped using and deleted Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok, etc.
The reality is that social media with a profit motive is basically a digital drug that operates via dopamine pathways, and most people these days are addicts.
Quit then, go clean, and I'll take these people more seriously.
Don't make tiktok reels about the idea of this so that you can feel 'appreciated' by view count and follower number go up.
I do appreciate that this can be very difficult and scary. But ... you're gonna need real self-control and discipline to quit an addicition, and you're gonna need to actually quit, to achieve the goal you say you want to achieve.
Us here on lemmy, we're largely here because in some way or another... we recognize this already, on some level, to some degree, as we've specifically sought out a kind of 'least insane and systemically exploitative' way of mass public communicating with randos.
But the normies just don't truly 'get it' yet.