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Are you also an abolitionist? How do you see abolition and socialism related to another? in c/socialism@beehaw.org
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago

Who are the abolitionists you follow? By using the word "follow" I'm guessing you're talking about highly visible or well-known abolitionists, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Are you also an abolitionist? How do you see abolition and socialism related to another? in c/socialism@beehaw.org
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago

I mean...I wouldn't expect an abolitionist to agree with an analysis that says abolition doesn't cut it.

Who are some good political writers who are queer, POC, and/or women? in c/socialism@beehaw.org
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago

'Anyone who is [most humans on earth]' is too big a category for me to make a useful recommendation. Are you reading for a certain purpose? For example, to understand a specific issue, deepen some relationship, help decide on a course of action, or just feel good?

Are you also an abolitionist? How do you see abolition and socialism related to another? in c/socialism@beehaw.org
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm not an abolitionist because "abolition" doesn't go far enough. It's no accident that abolitionists mostly talk about "abolishing" visibly repressive arms of the state but not so much the nation-state system in its entirety, or the European cultural base it rests on. Most of them shy away from even fighting to abolish the nation-state they live in because then they wouldn't be able to demand policy changes from it.

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Curious if anyone here is also on Open Library. (openlibrary.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/293074

Especially people who mess with metadata. Adding things, fixing things, etc.

Who are some of your favorite socialist writers? in c/socialism@beehaw.org
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago

Kuwasi Balagoon went the fuck off in his trial statements.

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Proposal: Make a u.s. politics space distinct from the general politics space (baraza.africa)
 

!politics so far largely features topics on the internal politics of the united states. I don't see any statements from the Beehaw team suggesting this is intentional or explicit (feel free to correct me if I missed this), so I think it would be good to have such posts mostly go in a separate subcommunity, something for which there's a precedent with !socialism.

I don't interpret this as a ban on anything about the u.s. being mentioned in the general space, just like I don't interpret the existence of !socialism as banning discussions around socialist politics in the general space. I just think it would be an improvement. Curious what others think.

null in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 2 points 1 year ago

A practice like allowing or disallowing downvotes cannot on its own be judged "healthy" or "unhealthy".

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HBDH Burns Down Fascist Factory in Istanbul, Turkey (abolitionmedia.noblogs.org)
 

HBDH is "a political-military alliance of ten Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary organisations".

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People are commenting on my post to another instance, but I'm not getting notified. (baraza.africa)
 

I made a post to beehaw.org which got multiple comments and I didn't get notified for any of them. But I have gotten notifications for posts I've made to lemmy.ml. Anyone having similar issues?

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Sharing in case others have the same problem. "Why don't I see the same posts when browsing a community from 2 different instances?" (baraza.africa)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1215308

Hello,

If I open: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support in 2 different tabs, I don't see the same posts at all, even with the same sorting option selected.

Is it just because the servers are overloaded and there is some delay in the synchronization?

Thanks for your help trying to understanding the fediverse inner working.

It would be cool to have something like LibRedirect for Lemmy. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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It would be cool to have something like LibRedirect for Lemmy. (baraza.africa)
 

So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.

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Women Writing Africa Project (annas-archive.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yaspora@baraza.africa to c/literature@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/561669

The product of a decade of research, this landmark collection … seeks to document and map the extraordinary and diverse landscape of African women’s oral and written literatures. Presenting voices rarely heard outside Africa, some recorded as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as well as rediscovered gems by such well-known authors as Bessie Head and Doris Lessing, this volume reveals a living cultural legacy that will revolutionize the understanding of African women’s literary and cultural production.

Each text is accompanied by a scholarly headnote that provides detailed historical background. An introduction by the editors sets the broader historical stage and explores the many issues involved in collecting and combining orature and literature from diverse cultures in one volume. Unprecedented in its scope and achievement, this volume will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, culture, and literature in Africa, and worldwide.

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Addameer: Tracking Political Prisoners Held by Israel (addameer.org)
Project for moving/mirroring subreddits to Lemmy. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think using this tool prevents that from happening.

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Project for moving/mirroring subreddits to Lemmy. (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/292797

Would like to know if people are trying it and how well it's working.

FYI. The person who runs Lemmy.one is not good news apparently. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] yaspora@baraza.africa 3 points 1 year ago

There was another post about them abandoning all their Mastodon instances for a while (like over a month) until a bunch of people complained but I'm not sure how to find it. I think this article is from before that happened.

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FYI. The person who runs Lemmy.one is not good news apparently. (www.privacytools.io)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/217045

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