Not to be alarmist...well, maybe, but a #famine will be incoming for the United States. Famines under capitalism tend to take the form of "there's food, we promise, it just happens to be too expensive for you to afford", so...you've technically been under famine conditions for a little while, but it's about to get a whole lot worse. Your latest administration has completely slashed agricultural subsidies, deported thousands of migrant agricultural workers, drained a reservoir in California, and levied tariffs on the three countries it imports the most food from. This is a good time to remember that many revolutions are preceded by famines, and it's time for you to start preparing and start organizing with anyone you can, before you're starving โ which, again, I'm sorry to say, it's going to happen.
Talk openly about it; this is the time you can do it safely, and that window is going to be short. Find anyone, literally anyone, who is willing to talk back about the possibility of organizing together. It can be as simple as a mutual aid group, to try to afford bulk food more cheaply together when this happens, but we here, the people of the imperialized world, your fellow workers, are hoping that you will do more, and fight to end both famine and fascism in your country once and for all, no matter what it takes.
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There is also the question of "who is going to harvest the food?" since la migra is coming onto farms and rounding up farmworkers.
Red Paw Collective was a failure as a space because of the apathy that gradually settled into the community. Apathy breeds apathy, and, as one friend and ex-member put it to me, it self-selects: People who care in an otherwise apathetic space end up leaving for the sake of their own sanity.
I'm hoping to form another community on Matrix, with these lessons kept in mind. If you're viewing this post, you're invited.
This will be a community of anticapitalist solidarity, open and inclusive to all revolutionary anticapitalists in solidarity with the entirety of the working class without discrimination. This has been the three-point membership requirement for years, and it has been extremely effective, allowing Leninists, Maoists, anarchists, classical Marxists, and plenty of others to engage progressively with one another.
We will also retain our democracy. RPC's democracy was very successful and effective in empowering its members and creating a community that felt safe and appealed to people.
RPC was, as the community-chosen name implies, a fairly furry-heavy community, as that was also a focus of its founding members. This new community will eschew that focus. I would like to be more inclusive and less intimidating to people outside this subculture. I believe this secondary focus is also partly the cause of the apathy that would eventually lead to the community's downfall.
Finally, in correcting for those past mistakes, this new community would have the additional requirement that active members are also active in some form of organization within the space. This may be as simple as starting out with a reading club or mock debate, building our theoretical foundations, but as time goes on and hopefully we grow, we will branch into more depending on the interests and talents of our membership. For this reason, we will be on Matrix and only on Matrix, on a privately hosted server outside of the United States. Although we encourage relationship-building between comrades and may have rooms pertaining to shared interests, they will not be a focus, and if a member is engaging in only these secondary rooms without engaging in foundation-building or organization, they will be invited to self-criticize.
If you are interested in being a founding member of this space, leave a reply or send me a DM. There are a few of us already, and once we have a good small group going, I'll pull the trigger, and Workers of the World will have a new live space, ready to be built from the ground up.
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Interested in getting back in with that.
I showed up to book club frequently enough, so I'll be with the new book club.
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in reply to Comrade Ferret • • •I'm daily-driving Hubzilla, and I have been doing so under various independent identities since it was still fairly new (second half of the 2010s).
By default, Hubzilla doesn't look much different from what Friendica looked like in 2012 when Hubzilla started out as a Friendica fork named Red. However, very very recently, third-party themes have started emerging.
The default UI, the Redbasic theme, is quite convoluted and can be confusing. That's because work done on it over the last 13 years was almost limited to slapping more UI elements to it somewhere. Configuration is split between the Settings page in the channel menu, cogwheel icons towards the left of the navbar on some pages and even a few (partially actually essential) settings exclusive to /settings/features, a page for which there is no link on the UI anywhere (unless you have the newbie links on). And configuration is important; using Hubzilla at default settings makes even less sense than using Friendica at default settings.
On top of this, Hubzilla is highly modular, similarly to Friendica. There are dozens of "apps" which the hub admin can activate or deactivate for everyone, and in addition, some "apps" are on by default on new channels (if they're on for the whole hub), and some are off. This means that some optional features are activated by turning settings on whereas others are activated by "installing" an "app" as a user.
On top of even this, one of the "apps" that are off by default is Pubcrawl, Hubzilla's ActivityPub connector. Hubzilla has to be the only Fediverse server application on which ActivityPub has to be activated manually. That's because Zot6 (Hubzilla's version of the Nomad protocol, formerly known as Zot) doesn't interact as smoothly with non-nomadic protocols as (streams)' more current version of Nomad. Back in 2015, Hubzilla was geared towards purely nomadic operation. Since then, the Fediverse has changed a lot (and not into the direction which was desired in conjunction with Hubzilla's development), but Hubzilla hasn't in this regard.
And "installing" the ActivityPub "app" is only one of the things highly recommended to do before you even only post something or connect to someone.
Even if you're used to Friendica, Hubzilla's learning curve can and probably will be staggering. That's because Hubzilla is even more complex than Friendica. It's Friendica with a content management system, a groupware server, a whole new concept of identity and the second-most powerful permissions system in the whole Fediverse.
The first huge difference between Friendica and Hubzilla: On Friendica, like almost everywhere else in the Fediverse, your account/login is your identity. On Hubzilla, your identity is independent from your account/login.
For starters, you can have multiple independent channels on one account where one channel corresponds to one Friendica account, only without its own login. You can switch back and forth between all channels on one account without logging out. Friendica, Mastodon and everything else that doesn't understand the Nomad protocol (i.e. everything that isn't Hubzilla or (streams)) understands Hubzilla's channels as separate accounts.
This is not to be confused with Friendica's multiple profiles per account. Hubzilla has multiple profiles per channel, too, which can be assigned both to privacy groups (think "lists") and individual contacts. You can have multiple identities, with multiple profiles each if so desired, on one account.
But you cannot only have multiple channels on one account on one hub. You can have the exact same channel on multiple hubs with one account each. This is called "nomadic identity", something that Bluesky claims to be working on pioneering, but that has actually been first implemented by Friendica's and Hubzilla's creator as early as 2012 as the ultimate safety net against unannounced server closure.
Nomadic identity is basically a live, hot, near-real-time backup of an entire channel with almost everything on it ("almost" because the one thing that isn't mirrored is which apps you have installed on your channel) on another server instance. And it's bidirectional. You can actually log onto your clones and use them like the main instance, e.g. if the hub with the main instance is offline. Whatever you do there will be mirrored to your main instance and your other clones if you have more than one clone. And you can declare one of your clones the new main instance and thereby demote your previous main instance to clone status.
Another difference is that permissions are everything on Hubzilla. Hubzilla has the second-most powerful permissions system in the Fediverse, only barely behind (streams) and Forte. Permissions are granted on three levels: for the whole hub, for individual contacts, per conversation.
On a hub level, there are four so-called channel roles which define what the channel generally permits: Public (social networking with a lot of permissions granted right away), Personal (social networking with fewer permissions granted), Community forum (public group) and Custom (adjust all channel-level permissions yourself, one by one).
You can grant permission for others to
You can grant these permissions to
The next level is permissions per contact. These are granted by so-called "contact roles" which contain the same permissions as the channel, but only with "yes" or "no" as the options because the contact role defines whether a contact is granted a specific permission or not. Permissions granted by the channel are automatically also granted by all contact roles and cannot be revoked, except on a channel level. Each contact is always assigned one contact role.
Lastly, you can grant permissions on a content level. For example, a new post can be public or restricted to
At least on servers that understand these permissions, all those who are permitted to see the post are also permitted to see all comments and comment themselves.
That is, optionally (that's an off-by-default app again), you can disallow comments on specific posts altogether.
For viewing files and folders in your file space, there are the permissions mentioned above which control who in general and which contacts specifically are permitted. In addition, you can define access permissions like those for posts to individual folders or files.
All this ties in with OpenWebAuth, a single sign-on system developed for Zap, a now defunct fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla, in 2018/2019 and backported to Hubzilla in 2019 or 2020. Friendica has client-side OpenWebAuth support, i.e. Friendica's logins are recognised by OpenWebAuth. Hubzilla has full support, i.e. not only are its logins recognised, but it recognises logins itself.
Speaking of the file space: It can be connected via WebDAV. As if that isn't enough, Hubzilla has two calendar systems. One is Friendica's federated event calendar. One is a CalDAV calendar server that shares the same frontend. And, as another optional app, Hubzilla even offers a CardDAV addressbook server.
As indicated above, Hubzilla has even more to offer:
As for external federation, Hubzilla is second only to Friendica itself. It does not have Bluesky integration or a WordPress cross-poster, and OStatus support was removed years ago with the release of Hubzilla 6.
How fast it is depends not so much on the software (Hubzilla requires fewer server resources per channel than Mastodon does per account, though) as it does on the underlying server (hardware, configuration, MySQL/MariaDB vs PostgreSQL etc.). Still, the Zot code from 2012 (and what evolved from it) seems to be more optimised than the DFRN code from 2010, so that Hubzilla may actually be quicker than even Friendica.
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in reply to Jupiter Rowland • •Thanks for the amazing rundown! I've never seen so much information on Hubzilla in one place, and it clears up a lot for me. The nomadic identity thing is still a lot to get my head around โ does it mean you're basically linking to multiple different accounts/instances via your Hubzilla login? That's kind of the idea I'm getting?
I'm finding Friendica to be very slow, which is why I'm considering my options. It might just be my server (which is just a very old laptop) but I've heard from many that Friendica tends to chug. If Hubzilla is comparable, it might not be the best option for me, but there's a lot here to be interested in. โฅ
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You may find helpful this February 2018 article by Sean Tilley.
We Distribute: https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e (Sean Tilley)
A deep review of the Hubzilla communication platform, an Open Source system that includes social networking, cloud storage, content management, plugins, themes, chat, and more.
This March 2024 article is not focussed on Hubzilla, but it does highlight how Nomadic Identity, OpenWebAuth, and Channel Relays together enable network resilience, censorship resistance, and ease of migration.
We Distribute: https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/ (Sean Tilley)
Even if you've been a part of the Fediverse for a long time, you'd be excused if you had never heard of Nomadic Identity. Within the confines of Mastodon, it's a relatively unknown concept. But, for s
There were also a series of Medium posts on Hubzilla in 2017 and 2018 by Andrew Manning.
Medium: https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-you-by-hubzilla-67eadce13c3b (Andrew Manning)
If you havenโt heard of Hubzilla yet, it is an advanced platform for online communications and content publishing powered by a decentralized identity and permissions framework built using commonโฆ
Medium: https://medium.com/@tamanning/getting-started-with-nomadic-identity-how-to-create-a-personal-channel-on-hubzilla-7d9666a428b (Andrew Manning)
Hubzilla is an advanced platform for online communications and content publishing powered by a decentralized identity and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Some of theโฆ
Medium: https://medium.com/@tamanning/use-a-hubzilla-wiki-to-make-collaboration-easy-and-private-64105b66c6f4 (Andrew Manning)
Pretty much everyone by now has at least heard the word โwikiโ because of Wikipedia, arguably the biggest success story of the web, but you may not know what a wiki is or how you could use one. Theโฆ
Medium: https://medium.com/@tamanning/understanding-the-hubzilla-permissions-system-7d29cbc77b6e (Andrew Manning)
Hubzilla offers a unique blend of identity ownership and decentralized access control. The way you actually use the access control system is by configuring what can initially feel like a dauntingโฆ
You can find many long posts by @Jupiter Rowland scattered across his timeline, explaining various aspects of Hubzilla and how it compares to other platforms on the Fediverse. You can also take a look at the articles by him.
Also take a look at this page.
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Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub
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