Solarpunk Urbanism

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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.

Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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Quick tip for anyone who wants more urbanism/urban planning/cycling/public transport posts in their Mastodon feed. (aus.social)

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Quick tip for anyone who wants more urbanism/urban planning/cycling/public transport posts in their Mastodon feed.

Thanks to the wonders of the Fediverse, you can follow and post to Lemmy groups from Mastodon.

Here are some transport/planning/cycling groups to get you started:

For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)

From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.

Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)

#urbanism #planning #UrbanPlanning #urbanist #cities #transport #PublicTransport #train #trains #tram #trams #cycling #bikes #cycle #walking #walkability #walkable #politics #LightRail #urbanists #FediTips #FediTip #FediHelp #MastoHelp @feditips @FediFollows

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@ajsadauskas @urbanism @fuck_cars @[email protected] @ukpublictransport @[email protected] @melbournetrains @sydneytrains @brisbanetrains @[email protected] @[email protected] @utilitycycling @feditips @FediFollows None of those groups have any posts.... Why would I follow them?

There must be something Im not understanding, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Works the same way regular Mastodon profiles do. They'll look blank when viewed from your instance until someone from there follows them and starts them federating. In the meantime you can do the "view original profile" thing to see the actual community (or in the case of a Mastodon user, their full profile) and decide if they look interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

@TeaHands I didn't know that was even a thing lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

@ClintonAnderson @urbanism @fuck_cars @[email protected] @ukpublictransport @[email protected] @melbournetrains @sydneytrains @brisbanetrains @[email protected] @[email protected] @utilitycycling @feditips @FediFollows

They do indeed have posts, as you can see here: https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars https://slrpnk.net/c/urbanism

If you're the first person to follow them from your Mastodon server, then the feed will initially look empty from Mastodon because the posts haven't pulled across yet. (I'm sure @maegul can give a better explanation?)

Anyway, click follow and the new posts will begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.