The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 6,000 people arrested across 36 cities. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer’s efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer’s methods.
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national attention, and prompted race riots in more than 30 cities, as well as two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer’s home.
Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10,000 people in seventy cities.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
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Federation is a somewhat bad solution to the problem of building a distributed system
A problem with running Mastodon or Lemmy instances is the amount of data duplication and caching going on. You basically have to be willing to put up terabytes of storage space and lots of network bandwidth to run a fedi instance. Freenet got this right decades ago. Instead of placing the load entirely on huge servers that serve large amounts of users Freenet spreads the load and data out over the whole network in such a way that nodes are only required to have a tiny amount of resources to participate in the network and people who have more resources can contribute more only if they want to. Then what stays in the distributed datastore is decided by how old it is and how popular it is. There’s also no single point of failure. There’s even a Twitter clone called Sone that runs on Freenet.
Don’t join Freenet though. It’s a hellhole incapable of being moderated by design (run by
fanatics) so by participating you are volunteering your system resources to storing and distributing all kinds of really bad things. The tech is really cool though.
uggh this is such a bummer because that architecture design genuinely does sound significantly better & more resilient
Ikrrr
I used to be on there until I realized what I was sharing implicitly :(
The implementation (fred/Freenet daemon) is kinda bad anyway. People have been wanting to rewrite it for a long time. That’s actually how the I2P project got started. Maybe at the same time this tech (maybe) gets reimplemented we can figure out moderation too.