Mastodawn

To me, Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic of "green cities." It is a protest. It is the punk of digital sovereignty and the right to repair.

Fun Fact: The movement was born out of a desire to move past the doom scrolling of Cyberpunk.

Tech should serve the community, not the corporation.

Supporting open source, keeping old hardware out of landfills, and building local resilience.

Adam Flynn wrote in 2014: "There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance."

Solarpunk is a future with dirt under our fingernails and open-source in our pockets.

Source:
https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/Solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/

#Solarpunk #DIY #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #TerminalTilt #AdamFlynn #FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux

Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto – Project Hieroglyph

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anubis2814 Mar 1

@terminaltilt YES. Transitional solarpunk will not be cottage core plus solar panels or the status quo plus solar panels, but a bloody struggle because those with power will refuse to give up the power carbon gives them. It will very punk in the original sense of the word. Solarpunk is one of 10 pillars i discuss on my youtube channel solarpunkusa, with sustainable community at its core

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Terminal Tilt Mar 1

@anubis2814

I am familiar with your work. I subscribed. I have learned quite a bit about the movement from channels like yours and Andrewism.

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campfireman Mar 1

@terminaltilt
Was thinking about what it means for me as well. Tried to fit it into an acronym:

- *S* ustainability
- *O* ptimism
- *L* ife
- *A* utonomy
- *R* esiliency

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Terminal Tilt Mar 1

@campfireman

That is perfect. Autonomy is the big one for me, the shift from being a user to being a sovereign owner of our own tools. If we don’t own the hardware and the code, we don’t have the autonomy. Love the focus on Resiliency, too.

How about for the punk part:

Privacy (as a right)
Unplugged (from corporate clouds)
Networked (Local first, peer-to-peer)
Knowledge (open-source and shared skills)

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campfireman Mar 1

@terminaltilt dumping random thoughts:

- privacy: indeed a big one. especially with the political systems everywhere pushing for surveillance, pushing for privacy really makes you a punk.
- networked: YES! For example, I really like seeing all the blogs with RSS people have on Mastodon. Building my own feeds, subscribing to people's thoughts.

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