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 🌟
- !spoonbreadtube@slrpnk.net - A community for sharing videos about labor issues centered on Appalachia, but almost anything that can be connected to the region is welcome (the creator is posting a great documentary that they’ve been excited to share, so be sure to check it out!)
- !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net - Community for those focused on sustainable travel.
- !disasterresponse@slrpnk.net - Disaster response, community prepping, mutual aid… everything that can help to weather the ongoing and coming disasters (perhaps especially helpful for those experiencing a heatwave)
🌆 A quiet month 😌
Overall, June was a fairly quiet month for the instance. We did tweak the taglines mentioned in the last meta to rotate between different highlights, as all of it at once was looking a bit cluttered if viewed from a mobile browser. But otherwise, things have mostly been purring along.
For the graph enthusiasts among us (I know you’re here >_>), let’s take a quick look at the instance’s stats.
According to our fediverse.observer page, we’re continuing to see a steady flow of new users signing up, now totaling 2,369, and our Monthly Active Users (MAU) are hovering at around ± 380 users, which has been pretty consistent for a little over a year now.
📸 Meta Post Image 🎞️
This month’s artwork is Library Truck by Jacob Coffin (CC BY-ND 4.0), who is also a member here!
It depicts how a library economy might collect unwanted or unused furniture and appliances to be brought to a local warehouse and assessed and repaired, so that it can then be repurposed and given out to people in the community who need it. There’s a more detailed write-up by Jacob Coffin in the link above, for those interested. :)
It’s another image from the awesome Story Seed Library, which incidentally just concluded their their 2026 Disaster Preparedness, Response and Relief Art Collab, and we’re excited to see the submissions from it! :D
🔋 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 (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/
Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 63€/month in donations from 10 people, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!
💬 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
🗃️ Meta Archive 📰
Our Monthly Meta posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for those interested, we’ve compiled a list below.
- December 2024 - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime
- February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
- June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
- July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects!
⬛ Union Resources 🟥
These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers!
I don’t see anything broken with it right now.
Were you trying Movim in Fennec on Android? There is some odd issue with that browser specifically due to some recent changes with webpush, but with Chromium or regular Firefox for Android it seems to work.
As for Conversations, that should normally work unless your network blocks the xmpp ports for some reason. As this has become somewhat common on public wifis I am planning to add a workaround to allow connecting via the normal 443 port automatically.
The only other thing I can think off is that Conversations startet to enforce disallowing SASL plain connections. The dev talked about wanting to do that, but it breaks our auth integration with Lemmy. If so then there is probably a way to restore it to allowing that in the settings like on Monal.
Edit: the setting might be called “require channel binding” or similar. I personally use the Conversations fork Monocles and there is is called like that but afaik disabled by default.
Hi, Conversations works with 3 other XMPP providers. Movim did not react at all after I entered my username and passqword
Require channel binding is off by default in Conversations, TLS 1.3 is required by default, disabling that has no effect
Logs show it tries to authenticate with SASL_2/PLAIN and nothing after that
Do you have some really long password, like 60 characters or more? There was some issue with the Lemmy database dropping characters after that limit.
No it is under 30 characters but with a ton of crazy unicode
Try changing it to something simpler. It might be an issue Ejabberd side with those characters.
That sounds odd, arent the passwords hashed so it shouldnt make a difference?
They are, but I suspect ejabberd itself which generates the hash from your password to compare to the hashed password in the Lemmy database might mess it up. It is quite backwards in regards to unicode in other ways, so that sounds plausible. But at this point I am really only making random guesses.
Edit: although if it was a hashing problem, it should return a wrong password error. I’ll have a closer look at the ejabberd logs if it shows anything relevant later today.
Hmm, server side it does indeed think that you have entered a wrong password, but there is an odd timeout from our external auth script:
[error] External authentication program failed when calling 'check_password' for boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net: :timeout[warning] Failed c2s PLAIN authentication for boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net from [redacted IP]: Invalid username or passwordYour clients do not show that error?