SLRPNK Community Discussion - March 2026

Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !hackers@slrpnk.net - A place for discussing cybersecurity, but also for discussing hacker culture. Hacktivism, cyberfeminism, crypto-anarchism (not related to crypto currency), internet vigilantism, and so forth.
• !fullyautomatedrpg@slrpnk.net - they've released their fifth Role Playing Game module. Download and share it, released free under a Creative Commons license!

If you're curious about the political MacGuffin at the center of the campaign, check out these communities:

• !cash@slrpnk.net - Cashless society, forced banking 💳, and the War on Cash
• !money@slrpnk.net - Alternative payments methods, regional currencies, community banking etc.

🌍🌐 No borders, no nations! Discussion Summary 🚧🛑

Last month we asked you for your thoughts on country and region-specific community creation on SLRPNK.net. We were impressed by several of your insightful ideas. It seems there is a strong sentiment that SLRPNK should continue to host regional / country based communities.

We've put together a draft policy on regional / country based communities. Currently we have four communities that fall into this category:

• !ireland@slrpnk.net - Solarpunk Ireland
• !sea@slrpnk.net - Southeast Asia
• !vietnam@slrpnk.net - Vietnamese culture community
• !EUpolitics@slrpnk.net - Discussions on European Union politics

The community !Ireland by @Greenbeard is currently the gold standard in how we feel region communities should operate. Using the region name as the API community name keeps the URL shorter, while using "Solarpunk Ireland" specifies that the community has a narrow discussion and news focus. Regional communities should follow this template.

The Southeast Asia community by @Mambabasa is an excellent example of posting news for discussion that is relevant to this instance. We'd love to see that continue and grow.

The !Vietnam community by @kid2908 is our oldest regional community. We'd love to see it grow, as not only does the region have many Solarpunk aesthetics, there is potential for a vibrant solarpunk counter-culture among the people. Posts about environmental activism, community celebrations, public transit developments, and grassroots anti-corruption movements are some of the great topics this community has brought to our attention.

We hope these communities will attract people from their regions to discuss local solarpunk-relevant news and initiatives. In keeping with our server's internationalist spirit, we also encourage people outside those regions to visit these communities to learn more about their world. People submitting stories are encouraged to crosspost from these regional Solarpunk communities to the general !solarpunk community as well.

If any of these communities achieve a critical mass, we'd be happy to support them with technical assistance when they're ready to transition to their own instance. We'd like to see the Fediverse grow horizontally, and increasing the number of servers hosted by like-minded people is one of our aspirations.

The !EUpolitics community by @whvholst is the only current regional community whose subject seems outside our server context with no easy modification to resolve the contradiction. While individual moderators are free to allow political discussion within the broader frame of their community topic, we've tried to avoid building communities with a focus specifically on politics. We encourage politics that are grassroots, horizontal, and bottom-up. We made an exception for !pleasantpolitics based on the motivation of the moderator and the novelty of the concept, but don't want to make that the general case.

We're happy for people to use our server to learn the capabilities of the software and get an idea of what moderating a community is like. We're also happy to be a resource to moderators in re-homing their growing communities to other places in the Fediverse where they would be more appropriate.

Regional or country-specific communities are permitted on SLRPNK.net so long as the topic of discussion is solarpunk-centric. Local opportunities to get involved in grassroots initiatives, environmental news, biome-specific gardening, are all examples of celebrated discussion. Stories about national crime, politicians, economic policy, and wars are not an appropriate focus for regional communities on this server.

Thank you everyone for your feedback on the proposed community rule last month. You're also welcome to discuss this draft policy for regional communities in the comments below.

🏚️ A Call for Yet More Moderators! 🏡

@SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net is currently looking for some additional help moderating our !art@slrpnk.net and !aesthetic@slrpnk.net communities.

Both communities are very laid back, and shouldn't require much attention as a mod to maintain. You'd mostly just need to respond to the odd user report for spam posts, or remove non-relevant posts.

If you'd like to volunteer as a moderator, leave a comment below letting us know! :)

Meta Post Image: Pale Blue Dot

On February 14, 1990 the Voyager spacecraft took a photograph of the region of space containing the Earth from its vantage point 6 million kilometers away. The famous science communicator Carl Sagan was deeply impressed by the pictures' significance. In Pale Blue Dot, the book based on this photograph he said in part,

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

In 2020, NASA revisited the spacecraft data to create a new image obtained using modern image processing techniques. This image is cropped and less grainy, with radiation from the Sun shining from the bottom of the image. The "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" continues to remind us to care for the only world known so far to harbor life.

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via our F-hub donation site: https://contribute.f-hub.org/ (Note: Your contributions work, but due to an annoying bug they are currently not shown in the summary)

We also offer Librapay as an option for those who already have an account there, which supports reoccurring donations: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

(Note: the Librapay option supports the broader F-hub project, of which SLRPNK is a part of. If you'd like all of your donation to go toward SLRPNK, use the alternative F-hub donation link, and select 'slrpnk.net' in the 'reason' drop-down instead)

Currently f-hub.org is getting a combined 41.35€/month in donations, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses, but some recent hardware purchases (~250€) would be still nice to get covered as well. The recent one-time donation of $50 from an anonymous SLRPNK member will help with that, thanks!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor