Today in Labor History May 3, 1968: The first battles of the May Upheaval began in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The police arrested 500 students meeting at the University of Sorbonne to protest repression at Nanterre. Revolt broke out along the route taken by police vans, with thousands fighting against the police. Throughout the month of May and part of June, workers and students occupied schools, factories and offices. By mid-May, 10 million workers were on strike.
In this special piece to celebrate May Day, Christopher D. Reid examines Tacky's Revolt and the complex interactions between slavery, geopolitics, and resistance in the Caribbean of the 18th century. He then discusses how history can inform the actions of contemporary social movements.
Hey folks! You probably heard that Discord is speeding up toward enshittification (if not, long story short: public company soon), and maybe you've been wanting out. (You probably *should* at least create a plan B asap even if you go on using Discord as your "main base", just to be safe.)
We did a bit of research with a friend and tested the two most popular alternatives (Matrix/Element and Revolt), here's the write-up of our tests and opinions: https://legaosaure-stuff.neocities.org/DiscordAltTestsEN.html
We did our best to keep it focused on what a not especially techie Discord user would feel useful, and we hope it can help people feel more at ease with at least one option! Feel free to share around =)
(Also feel free to reach out if you find typos, broken links, or outright mistakes. We did our best but it's more than one paragraph of writing so there's probably something ^^)
A little reminder if you're looking for an alternative to #Discord
There's a nice server set up by my friend - @gardiner_bryant on #Revolt
𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐫𝐯𝐥𝐭.𝐠𝐠/𝐝𝐪𝐉𝐓𝟑𝐫𝐉𝐇
Revolt itself is 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 #FOSS
This server is set up for gamers and developers/creators (mostly Steam Deck / Linux currently), so if you're into:
#gaming
#Linux
#SteamDeck
...general nonsense
Come and join! I wrote a post about the server on #Lemmy, too. If you want to read more:
Anyone here knows about Revolt as an alternative to Discord? How good or how bad is it?
https://www.golem.de/news/discord-kommunikationsplattform-mit-neuem-ceo-2504-195612.html
Das ist ein Monetarisierungs-CEO.
Zeit, massiv in die Verbesserung von Revolt zu investieren.
Matrix ist eine Antinative: bei einer Chat/Sprach/Screensharing Plattform ist Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung nutzlos - Daten sollen verteilt werden und Neuankömmlinge sollen die Historie sehen können. Nutzer sollen mit vielen Clients verbinden können und auf alle. Die Historie haben. E2E macht Sachen notlos kompliziert. Zudem wenn es so benutzerfeindlich wie bei Matrix implementiert ist.
Föderation hat auch nur Nachteile, solange der Client gleichzeitig bei x Serverinstanzen direkt angemeldet sein kann: auf diese Weise hat man kein Delay, eine authoritative Timeline und zwei Zehnerpotenzen geringere Komplexität.
@emma@shrimp.emmabyte.de @forse@kolektiva.social @xgranade@wandering.shop #TeamSpeak is proprietary, so I wouldn't consider that a viable alternative. #Revolt is free software and self-hostable, but last time I checked the setup you get by following their documentation does not include working voice. I hope they will fix this in the near future.
#Mumble has served me and my friends since before #Discord was made, and is likely to outlive it, just as it has outlived many other voice chats before it. It also comes with far superior mic and sound controls, to better filter out background noise. I've not seen any web-based voice chat service handle this well, if at all.
Maybe the Americans will realise they could stash Trump in a foreign prison and rid themselves of custody too.
Weniger #Discord, mehr #Revolt wagen.
(ja, ich weiß, dass es auch ganz tolle andere Software gibt, aber einige finden sich dort nicht ganz so gut zurecht)
PS: ich nutze auch #Teamspeak , #Matrix und mehr... ich sag's nur.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
I know the clip is choppy but you can check the livestream, he said it, and Bukele agreed.
#ice #holocaust #fucknazis #fucktrump #fuckbukele #fuckmaga #resist #revolt
I feel like the US government going all-in with making wealth some sort of untouchable superpower is REALLY going to anger those of us who are poor. I mean REALLY anger. #class #rise #revolt #taxtherich #law
Word of warning for everyone who has me on #Matrix or #Revolt
I'm just taking a few days away from the noise, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 posting here off and on because I can't resist it. Not ignoring you all, just taking a breather!
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And - back to boxing training! Not because I am a formidable opponent (despite how much I look like a pro -_-) but because the workout is exactly what I need
(Mostly coz I wanna look like Alicia Vikander when she was training to play #LaraCroft)
Today In Labor History April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture died on this day. He was one of the most prominent members of the Haitian revolution for independence from France. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Encouraged by the French and American revolutions. Louverture led 100,000 enslaved Haitians in revolt, winning their freedom in 1793. In 1804, Haiti became first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70 and France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. Louverture was betrayed in the end and died in prison. For a fantastic history of the Haitian Revolution, read “The Black Jacobins,” by C.L.R.James.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #toussaintlouverture #haiti #revolution #slavery #racism #boukman #vodou #revolt #independence #BlackMastadon #prison #BlackJacobins #CLRJames #book #writer #author #nonfiction @bookstadon
Here's what our family across the pond is saying and experiencing right now. If you don't want to experience the same, we have to #resist now and save ppls lives.
#educate #organise #press #US #SystemChange #revolt #news #BreakingNews #capitalism
https://youtu.be/8kgsY5dt4LQ?si=v38BLKzE2iXD2YqP
For reference:
#Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their own perception of reality.
I open Discord and it notifies me that I have a new direct message. I click on it and it's just Discord trying to sell me Nitro 
Get the hell out of here with that nonsense. This is part of the reason why I started up 199X.chat. Maybe Discord can go beg Tencent for more money.
If you look at everything the Trump administration and DOGE is doing through this particular filter, the results are obvious.
Who will it benefit? Who will it burn?
It is easy to figure out who it will benefit. The wealthy, the corporations who bow to Trump.
Who it will burn is on a sliding scale. It will burn everyone from the upper middle class to the homeless.
1/3
Another shooting, but the insurance ceo lives... for now.
Lou Lüeder 
