A Transversal Network Of Feminist Servers: LURK
In 2022 we ran a workshop How To Run A Small Social Network With Your Friends as part of A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers(ATNOFS). After the workshop, we wrote up our experiences of the workshop for the ATNOFS publication. The text covers the motivations for the workshop, as well as a series of useful prompts and discussion points for groups wishing to run their own Mastodon instance. Like the workshop, the text focuses not on the technical aspects but rather the social and organizational sides of doing so.
You can find the chapter “LURK” here
About ATNOFS
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travelled between each other in 2022 to share and extend their knowledges through live gatherings. ATNOFS argues that such platforms and tools are necessary to navigate our communications and cultural growth beyond the current media oligopolies, and democratise cultural and political expression outside obscure, bureaucratic algorithms and advertising monetisation.
The project responded to the need for continuity, interrelation and support for self-hosted and self-organised computational infrastructures in The Netherlands (Varia, LURK), Romania (hypha), Austria (esc mkl), Greece (Feminist Hack Meetings) and Belgium (Constant).
This publication was collectively made with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Vlad Dobrițoiu, Teo Săvoiu, Spideralex, Sergiu Nisioi, Roel Roscam Abbing, Reni Hofmüller, ooooo, Nina Botthof, Martino Morandi, Marloes de Valk, Mara Karagianni, Manetta Berends, Lídia Pereira, Julia Bande, Femke Snelting, elodie Mugrefya, Donatella Portoghese, Danae Tapia, Cristina Cochior, Azahara Cerezo, Aymeric Mansoux, Artemis Gryllaki, Aggeliki Diakrousi, Anca Bucur, amy pickles, Alice Strete, Alex Ștefănescu.
Grab the PDF for ATNOFS on https://txt.lurk.org/ATNOFS/ (or through the mirror on this site)