Intellectual Property Is Bullshit — Upcycle This Website
exposur.es is project with the aim of creating a safe haven for artists—queer and trans people, sex workers, sex educators, and anyone else who has been the victim of censorship—to collaborate with each other and freely share their work in whatever form it takes. after the hosting provider deleted the Pixelfed instance without warning, the project is taking new forms and might reappear less as a social media replacement and more as physical spaces to create, share, and learn together.
Nomad Network (or simply NomadNet) is an off-grid, resilient mesh communication network of nodes that can serve up simple website-like pages. it's built atop Reticulum (RNS), a networking stack that allows anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks is best summed up as "unstoppable networks for The People".
INFOMAT, a term that combines infoshop (a term for spaces anarchists used to distribute and discuss literature) with automat (a futuristic-at-the-time space that vended affordable meals & beverages from massive, elaborate vending machines), aims to maintain information & knowledge that may become increasingly difficult to find on the open web as corporations swallow up more of it and censor content either to avoid legal liability or to impose the reactionary political ideology of their execs.
quite likely the easiest way to get started is to install NomadNet (for Linux distros or macOS), Reticulum Meshchat (for macOS), or Sideband (for Android). there is only experimental support for iOS right now and, if you're running Windows, get in touch so we can find you the Linux distro that's right for you!
i've always been fascinated by and had an affinity for the concept of worlds that exist in parallel with our own or just beneath the surface. there's so much more to the world and life than what is said and done on the mainstream social media platforms or the traditional news media / press and my aim has been to rediscover the same is true for the in-between spaces that blur the lines of the digital, analog, and physical. that said, Nomadnet feels like one of those spaces so i have a feeling i'll be exploring this one for a while.