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Obviously you can't describe that in detail in a manifesto, but it makes it clear that anything not anti-authoritarian can not be called Solarpunk without completely perverting the idea. That is a form of protection against co-optation of ideas.

I think you need to read the manifesto again more carefully if you don't see how it was quite intentionally designed to be anti-authoritarian. You simply can't have a "Solarpunk" authoritarian state, it would be a direct contradiction of the terms. The same is not true about "bright green environmentalism" despite the overall progressive terms that are used to describe the idea.

Any political leader that decides to adopt it.

What I mean is that contrary to Solarpunk there are no built in protections against cooptation by an authoritarian but eco-concious government.

I still don't see where the punk is in that. "Radical" is a politically neutral term that can just as well be applied to a top-down radical reorganisation of society.

It led me to learn that there is a label that more or less matches solarpunk in political theory: Bright Green Environmentalism

Not really, as this concept doesn't say much about power-structures and is rather a description of Singapur like futuristic eco-authoritarianism.

Solarpunk without the punk (and anarchism) isn't Solarpunk.

Is the source-code for this website available somewhere? Might be pretty nice to have for other instances as well.

We are having some odd issues with the server right now. Not sure what the cause is. As a side effect we updated to the new lemmy version 0.19.7, but I don't think that was the cause of the issues as we did that only after the server crashed a few times.

Edit: seems to be resolved for now, but we are not sure what exactly cause it, so it might happen again.

If you are experiencing slow loading community avatars on the main frontend (lemmy-ui) here on SLRPNK, try deleting all site data (cookies etc.) for slrpnk.net in the privacy settings of your browser and log back in afterwards. For me at least that made a big difference (the issue is related to a bug-fix in Lemmy 0.19.6).

We will probably also update to Lemmy 0.19.7 the same time as it is only a minor bug-fix release. Edit: Done.

Lol, indeed. I must have been still half asleep when posting it.

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This is an interesting metaphor, thanks for sharing 👍