Skip to content
  • Institute for Local Self-Reliance

    These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    125 Views
    A
    @sn Thank you bring the ILSR to our attention. This place looks great. https://ilsr.org I see they had a pretty active podcast and being an auditory learner i think i will dig in with an interview with David Morris and report back. Thanks!
  • Big Numbers

    Education
    14
    2 Votes
    14 Posts
    473 Views
    D
    @skeet i agree, but wouldn't that also imply that: (1) "normal people" cannot really follow such discussions or contribute to them (because "they're anyway incapable of thinking in the realms of the big bonzos") and (2) we cannot hope to educate people so that they can really work with these dimensions (big numbers)? i mean, yes they're unconceivably large, and so we simply need appropriate tools to handle these numbers, if we want to participate.
  • Mom And Pops: Romancing the Store?

    Economics
    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    294 Views
    S
    For one there is the price the small stores pays issue for items. ilsr.org is a great resource for the Robinson-Patman Act and lots of article promoting small business. That and clean power (energy) and broadband access are the three main areas for awhile for that great organization.
  • 0 Votes
    3 Posts
    207 Views
    U
    Dang man. So do you also throw your weight around when problem solving? I often find that people complicate the process because they fear contact.
  • What is unshittified.club?

    Pinned Moved What is unshittified.club?
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    691 Views
    A
    Almost done with week 1. I have been considering the space that this site can occupy; the sweet spot it can provide. Briefly, so far: adjacent to politics but not abstracted away by politics. Focused on real societal issues that contribute to enshittification. on the other hand not entirely consumed by the symptoms of specific enshittification instances. That is something that a place like https://www.reddit.com/r/enshittification already does very well, and with much feeling. coordination of actionable items, like fliers (education) , petitions (collective action), other campaigns. a promise to never enshittify this site and community we build. For those who know me from previous sites or irl, this isnt just talk. If we scale, we will scale in a distributed way that will be hard to enshittify. an interest in connecting all the communities addressing enshittification and strategies to combat it. We are all in this together. This site will always act like it without going too far down the rabbit hole, in terms of conduct, just be cool, dont crap on others, allow for revisions, this is a place to kick ideas around, and no idea is ever a perfect thing, but sometimes its good enough.
  • …let me count the ways…

    These Are A Few Of the Shittiest Things
    2
    1 Votes
    2 Posts
    224 Views
    S
    Here's an ad that makes me absolutely bonkers. Well, even more than the rest of them. When the 400+ lb woman does zero exercise, makes no change in her diet and looks like a supermodel in 21 days by applying a 2" square patch to her fat. Please, Lord, make people stop this garbage.
  • Disregard the email validation for now guys

    Pinned Announcements
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    112 Views
    U
    I dont have smtp server set up yet and its not necessary. Just dismiss the modal
  • Site Beautification

    Taking Action
    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    201 Views
    U
    So check this out @skeet . These are the current overrides I have set. They allow me to override any css i want, so what i did was i went through the site briefly in chrome, saw a few things that looked like they could be improved, right clicked on those elements and chose inspect, then copied the selector, pasted it in chatgpt and told it: override this selectors color with light brown, or make the text in this selector bigger, etc. then i tweaked its output. If you gave me a list of overrides like this back i would be happy to try them out. Gemini should work fine for this too: .brand-container { background-color: #e9dfd3 !important; } [component="siteTitle"] h1 { color: #2f5e43 !important; font-size: 1.25rem !important; /* adjust size */ line-height: 1.2 !important; } .btn-close { filter: brightness(0) saturate(100%) invert(33%) sepia(11%) saturate(1122%) hue-rotate(96deg) brightness(92%) contrast(90%) !important; }
  • The registration process… lol

    General Discussion
    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    194 Views
    U
    Alright, I figured this one out. It looks like by default the board was showing GDPR registration process. That's the higher level of explicity that Europe require regarding authentication process. Most of us never see this kind of thing in the US, unless we use a VPN. Anyway, the registration process shouldn't be so scary any more. No, we will not do anything with your data and I guarantee that all we're really recording is IP address to ban bad actors like Chinese spambots.
  • Federation, distribution, and internet modalities

    Taking Action
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    106 Views
    U
    This new version of the board has the concept or remote categories and federated content. Going to look into that because maybe other people are using it for similar things. Im mulling over ideas about using web vs something like discord, and also if both things can live in harmony without bifurcating a community. Distributed anonymous systems are less corruptable, but hosting our own server(s) is also less corruptable.
  • A promise and a request

    Moved What is unshittified.club?
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    192 Views
    U
    This site is intended to give users a place to discuss the future. A site that will not turn into a pile of shit. This site will never monetize with advertising. As it scales, we will divide the board into smaller regional boards and pay all server costs with private donations. We will maintain this site as a group for this group! I’ve run an instance of nodebb (the lovely open source forum software which this board runs on) for a small community for a decade. That other board never earned a penny and we like it that way. No ads, no federated authentication. No bullshit. This board will focus on educating society about the forces that are dragging us into the Enshittocene. However, I hope you make meaningful friendships along the way, and this experience should not pretend to be linear. We are better together. A good internet can be done! I ask for your trust and lets build something distributed that will not fail.
  • Other forums encouraging free discussion

    Moved General Discussion
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    111 Views
    U
    Please post any links to other forums facillitating societal discourse with others.
  • Weaknesses are Strengths

    Moved What is unshittified.club?
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    168 Views
    U
    In a system dominated by corporate interests, those who do not have profit-driven agendas have their own set of strengths. It is important to acknowledge and leverage them: We do what makes sense, not limited by profitability and increasingly amoral algorithms. What makes sense resonates with people. They know it when they see it. Many of the things we seek do not require large sums of money. They only require communication. To overtly limit communication will be easily identified as inhumane, so corporations divide us through more insidious methods. But we have a global communication network that requires no middleman and can be reached instantly. And so we are here.