digital-solidarity-networks% Digital Solidarity Networks % a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity, conviviality and togetherness
% Initiated in: March 2020 % Situated update of the introduction text: May 2021 % Redux version during CLOG agency session: July 2021
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This is the start of a listing of resources regarding mutual aid strategies, propositions for future setups and social closeness
through 'alternative' digital infrastructures. This pad contains
examples of collective digital reparative practices, in a time where
everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated
normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook, Slack, Microsoft
Teams, Skype, etc.), a.k.a. GMAFIAZ. Other attitudes are possible!
The Covid-19 pandemic was the main (de)stabilizing force during
the period where this pad emerged (physical distancing, remote working
and care taking-and-giving), nevertheless we also want to account for
other temporalities of diverse thicknesses and lengths, // which are
inextricably embedded in what is shared hereby [this is a perfect clog to unclog!]. For example: the irreversible damage that we are left with in the aftermath of the sneaky moment[1];
the relational precarity provoked by what the Invisible Commitee called
the contemporary "crisis of presence"[2] that combines the digitization
of the modern subject's experience and how "he’s taken to speaking of
an 'anthropocene'" (5); the increasing need and control of migration
flows along the Global North-South axis; turbo-capitalism as the
computationally speeded-up financialisation of most socio-economical
relations; the establishment of computationalism as the
contemporary colonial regime[3]; mainstream feminism with a door for
TERFs[4]; requiems to late liberalism, new fascisms, mindsets of going
back to business as usual; hyper-hygenic "new" normality; rural
injustices such as lack of connectivity; and a generalized path towards
the 6th mass extinction by means of a provoked climate change against
which only partial reparations can now be dreamt of.
Such dreams have affirmative material forms, such as: the
abolitionism movements organized around a variety of well established
institutions (defund the police and prison complex including
tech-to-prison pipelines, intensive farming, border control, ...); the
moment of re-politicizing open licenses within F/LOSS communities
(closing the Software-as-a-Service/SaaS loophole with the AGPL); shared
economies of new unions, co-ops & other solidarities (housing,
delivery riders, sex workers, street vendors aka "manteros", gig
workers, ...); the potentials that we are left with in the afterglows of
the same sneaky moment[1] such as forms of collective
(re)engagement with computational infrastructures for the public
interest; the back to the countryside effect; and non-western social
uprisings.
In such a context, we feel the response-ability to
suggest a different approach to technology which does not reinforce
capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.:
"business as usual"). One that promotes collective networks of
solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the
figure of the user[0], and can be adapted to the specificities of each
situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of inspiring initiatives
doing great work in this area. With this pad, we hope to share some of
them and contribute to cross-pollination.
At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a
great amount of privilege, to walk away from these corporate tech
solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency; network
effects; family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of
mainstream social networking platforms; complicated political situations
where these are sadly the most convenient choice; the need for an
online presence in times of structural precarity; etc.; are all
considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most
of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are
not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech,
but we would prefer to critique it, put limits and eventually choose our
dependencies without being forced.
So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital
infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to
look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of
their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software,
therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial
compensation for someone else's services. There are many tools and
hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging with.
We have curated this pad from a resonant perspective to those
articulated by the tenets of the Feminist Server Manifesto[1]; Dear
Cultural Institution, there is an Elephant in the Room[2]; Technological
Sovereignty[3]; lists of feminist and autonomous servers[4]; F/LOSS Art
and Libre Graphics[5]; community care and mutual aid
networks (Global Information Society Watch[6], Allied Media[7],
gendersec[8], Critical Design Lab[9], Leeszaal[10] + ...), XPUB[11];
Lurk[12]; pirate.care[13]; ...
Being aware that lived experiences still miss embodied
perspectives related to computed forms of ageism, ableism, racism,
speciesism, ... this pad needs to be read as the snapshot of a very
situated community of practices, undoubtedly tainted by the problematics
of a particular group of people (and not others), no matter how large
it still is. Yet, we hope that this pad is taken as an invitation to
expand, stretch, reshape and carry the conversation further.
The pad will slowly morph and mutate, depending on different
forces and energies: new projects and groups are being encountered and
micro- and macro-organisms which are responding to each other in
different ways. But remember! No pressure, no guilt, no victimhood, no
productivity claims. Let's try to not apologize for not being always available.
Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and
care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to
liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of
different competences.") - https://hackingwithcare.in/
Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters
en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and
French) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes
"We have observed that there has been a lot of
discussion about how to maintain teaching, tackling technical
accessibility and so on – but seen little concrete suggestions on
how to deal with the “side-effects” of this new
university-/student-/teacher-life online. For us – it is part of our job
as (design) educator/teacher to care for my students – so how can we
implement the aspect of (self-) care into our teaching practice?"
"A set of curated* mostly free & open source
resources to support creative practitioners (artists, makers, curators,
designers, hackers, educators, facilitators, etc) who need to migrate
their practice onto digital places & spaces, and don’t have time to
mess around."
Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/
As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page
offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but
distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look -
auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are
proposed.
podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov
& Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired
the Jitsi Technology https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi
∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti
isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) -
https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
Radio Alhara together with a group of sound platforms and
sound artists started The Sonic Liberation Front (SLF) in order to
create one sound for Palestine; standing with Palestinian civilians in
protesting against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and the repression of
Palestinian communities everywhere. Through a dispersed network of
friends and colleagues, using emails and social media (mainly instagram
and facebook) etc Radio Alhara shared the url of the stream of SLF and
invited other radio platforms to mirror it in their own infrastructures.
Varia Broadcasts was one of these platforms and mirrored the SLF in May
and June 2021. https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2021-05-20-Sonic-Liberation-Front/
* Extractive software relies on a business model where the user
produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free
(free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook,
Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often
disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society
and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the
billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and
US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)
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Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec (link does not work)
"Pad latencies" is a section to leave traces of ongoing processes and moments of returnings triggered by this pad. The
elements below are the result of spending some time navigating the
links shared above, while looking for metaphors, anecdotes and/or models
that provided with a deeper understanding of the collective effort
hereby infused. As eventual vibrations that can provoke movement, these are latent terms and tactics exposed to collective ongoing inquiry.
Feel free to extend (also) this section!!
These are metaphors & markers that were found in the resources on this pad: From the intro blurb:
North-South axis
rural-urban
[is the "sharing" in "sharing economy" a metaphor at all!?]
herself, in relation to the server (gender markers)
seamlessness
transparency
promiscuous (not sure if this is a metaphor, actually)
parasitic
From Pirate Care:
circles of care
The Hologram, based on the understanding that all our crises
are connected and everyone is a little sick, is a viral four-person
health monitoring and diagnostic system practiced from couches all over
the world.
Landlords: "A web host can be compared to a landlord who would
open their accommodation to the public. Their role is both to ensure
the maintenance of infrastructure (system administration), but also to
set up and enforce internal rules and regulations (moderation,
administration), or even to ensure good relations with the neighboring
owners if the host decides to federate with them (federation policies)."
From the CLOG Agency: - Questions of scale and scope, and their ethical/political import
- The political theology of informational capitalism, (AI is eternal
and unprofanable, but so is "god") but also technology users
- what does that mean for "history" vs. an "eternal now" of feeds, platforms, agents, etc.
- how will it affect capitalism and "free markets"? Will "capital be dead" and we go back to feudalism, oligopolies, etc.
- How we call ourselves? reclaiming notions
of users, like Olia Lialina below on this pad. (Human / non-human,
centered / marginalized) users/used/userized and hierarchies of
agencies. -> who/what serves to what/whom?
(related to above, what is it that
the term user implies. does it make us a part of a machine? especially
in a time that this machine is supposed to be a mean of communication
(human interaction), what does this implied transformation mean? )
- When the agency of 'user' is reclaimed, what are their responsiblities? can we expect from humans not to be 'users'?
- algorithmic regulation of affective flows that
reorganize and recodify dividual flows into new extractive logics of
capital - a re-mattering of capitalism through the
inscription of infinitesimal bodily and cognitive movements into the
global flows of capital - messianic time vs. clock/calendar time (clog time!) -> they have clocks, we have time: https://thefunambulist.net/shop/36-july-aug-2021-they-have-clocks-we-have-time - ways of supporting, ways into hosting, ways of
relaying financial support) further articulating the questions of scales
and scopes. some instruction and/or example/ anecdote (how/who/why)
would be great. is an invitation enough? - can there be a
small scale model for observing and understanding (some of the)
phonomenon subject of this discussion? for example to understand the
dynamics of power within a country, in some ways one can look at a small
scale version of that same structure in a village. Would that be
possible here? - can we make a trade union yet? (a
structural solution for dealing with disparities, redistributing
resources, funding access, ..) making a long-term structure that can
sustain interventions such as this without the precarity that now seems
to be its inevitable base.+1000 y!e!s! pls!!! - resolving conflicts - an articulation of the "whoever" that encounters the pad - in the post-pre-face, some recounting of usages, of the paths taken by the pad, experiences and situations - the "alternative" of not wanting or needing any alternative, or digital tool, at all
What's missing from the pad (suggestions only): - environmental issues - sustainable energy - permaculture, sustainable living - autonomous forms of agriculture (e.g. forest gardens, etc.)
- anarchism and finance in the abstract (such as impact funds, short
betting in connection/coordination with direct action & stock price,
etc.) - ways of preserving water & solidarity
with indigenous causes worldwide (protects the land & water
resources) - moar ASCII art
These are individual and collective roles that we saw emerge along the different initiatives collected on this pad: host user public audience citizen customer non-expert participants micro- and macro-organisms sovereign own (as in run your own) translators https://opencollective.com/mastodon volunteers interns donators sponsors propaganda-makers !! mirror/proxies/fedeproxies
These are anecdotes & stories that seemed somehow
informative about the complexity at stake when engaging with digital
solidarity: sneaky moment line 137 of the pad: "As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons
network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft,
one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers
(have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other
servers are proposed."
"If a complete stranger knocked on your door and asked for a
copy of all your emails in exchange for $1, would you accept such a
deal? Probably not, but if you use Gmail that’s the deal you’re
accepting: Google gets to read all your emails, and in exchange Google
gives you a mailbox that costs about $1 a month to run. […]" <https://switching.software>
Hello world out there, probably inside somewhere else... We
often read in the opening of emails these days the wish to find a dear
one in good health, or well taken care of, in this tough times. <https://pirate.care/>
Framatalk Statement:
Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution(individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
We were contacted by a companion ( :) ) who shared the Digital
Solidarity Networks pad with his students. One of the students had their
browser set on auto-translate into French and when they opened the pad,
it accidentally replaced all that was there with its French auto
generated counterpart. We had luckily saved a local copy from which to
restore it and included the French version in a listing of translations.
Calibre's history: "As my e-book collection grew, I realized
that managing it was quickly becoming unwieldy, so I decided to write a
graphical interface to libprs500 to make it easier. This became calibre,
in its present form, as a comprehensive e-book management tool.
libprs500 was renamed to calibre in mid-2008. The name calibre was
chosen by my wife, Krittika. The libre in calibre stands for freedom,
indicating that calibre is a free and open source product, modifiable by
all. Nonetheless, calibre should be pronounced as cali-ber, not
ca-libre."
Olia Lialina: "A year ago, in Turing Complete User, I wrote that
the development of the Invisible Computer results in the creation of an
Invisible User. We need to keep both the term and the idea of the User
alive, to insure that users — those who use a system they haven't
developed — don't lose either their rights or the opportunity to protect
them. In the article I only briefly mention what these users rights
could be.
Now I'd like to invite computer users to elaborate and suggest points (long or short) that should be included in a Bill of Computer Users' Rights.
Please participate! At the moment we need to collect varying opinions.
Don't think that it's only about big issues like free software or data
privacy. Demand to have a back button, if its absence infringes upon
your rights as a computer user!"
Acts of mirroring sites: Radio Alhara together with a
group of sound platforms and sound artists started The Sonic Liberation
Front (SLF) in order to create one sound for Palestine; standing with
Palestinian civilians in protesting against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and
the repression of Palestinian communities everywhere. Through a
dispersed network of friends and colleagues, using emails and social
media (mainly instagram and facebook) etc Radio Alhara shared the url of
the stream of SLF and invited other radio platforms to mirror it in
their own infrastructures.
Resource sharing: The gesture of Constant to make their BBB
accessible to other individuals/organisations in need of a video
conferencing tool but not able to run one themselves.
These are some of the few business models that were explicitly exposed in the sites of projects for digital solidarity: dependent to public funds crowdfunded? volunteering donations;
the case of riseup:
Suggested contribution
Individuals: We ask that individuals with email
accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly. If you are broke,
live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we
don’t expect you to give. This means that those with money in the
global North should contribute extra as an act of solidarity. If you are
unsure how much to contribute, might we suggest $5-$15 a month? If you
can do more, please do!
Groups: We rely on organizations with email
accounts or lists to contribute. It is especially essential for
organizations with big mailing lists to contribute, as such lists are
costly for us to provide. As a rough guideline, we ask that
organizations annually contribute at least 1% of their annual
budget–this is a $100 a year donation for an organization with an annual
budget of $10,000.
If you have a big list with over a hundred subscribers or
with high traffic and lots of archives, increase the suggested donation
amount several fold.
Please consider donating more if you can afford it. Any
money left over after we have met our basic expenses gets folded back
into providing service to more users. If you are making a large donation
(thank you!), then please consider sending a check or money order
through the mail–online payment systems take a cut of about 3%.
the case of LURK:
Big tech and an abusive misunderstanding of free and open
source software practices have led us to believe that software
production, server maintenance and on-line services should be free as in
gratis. However there is no such things as a free lunch and software
does not exist in a vacuum.
If we want sustainable alternatives and a diverse cultural
sector, these alternatives and the humans behind them, need to be
supported. If LURK is useful to you, and if you can afford it, please
help us by donating.
You can support us through Liberapay, Patreon, Ko-Fi,
PayPal (drop us an email for account info), or by international Bank
Transfer (drop us an email for account info).
Donate 💗 - We (@nwspk) are a tiny tech-for-good organisation in the UK. Please donate so we can stay focused on improving the handbook. You can also donate directly, sign up for coil or contact us about grants. <https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/>
You can support our work by becoming a monthly sustainer or
providing a one-time donation. Sustainers select a monthly donation
amount that is automatically contributed each month. <https://alliedmedia.org/donate>
the case of Mastodon:
No hay publicidad, monetización o inversores. Tus donaciones soportan directamente el desarrollo a tiempo completo del proyecto
From Anarchaserver: opaque /// but, some
oblique info about calafou: The assembly is the main decision-making
body in Calafou. It is held weekly, and it is the space where
information and proposals are shared for day-to-day management and more
in-depth debates that require several sessions. Decisions are taken by
consensus. There are management areas made up of smaller groups in
charge of carrying out specific permanent objectives and with a certain
amount of decision-making autonomy: •Economics and Law: manages the
financial movements that make the project, is responsible for generating
the documentation of transactions and ensures transparency of economic
management of the colony. It evaluates the financial needs, computes the
income, expenses and presents reports. <https://calafou.org/web/index.php/sobre-calafou>
From Calibre / Kovid Goyal on Patreon <https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal>:
"I am the principal developer and ongoing maintainer of calibre.
calibre exists to free e-books from walled gardens and allow readers to
once again own and manage their own book collections. calibre is open
source and the product of volunteers from all over the world. I have
personally been working full time on calibre for over a decade and your
support helps keep calibre alive -- an independent solution for ebooks
beholden to no corporation and made by readers for readers."
"Today, Enspiral serves as a financially lean, but
anecdotally essential, connective fiber among these independent workers
and small companies. Enspiral members still pass jobs around to help
stabilize the ups and downs of freelancing, but now they also fund one
another's business experiments and assist one another if things go sour.
They hold retreats twice a year. They're relying less on the Robin Hood strategy of
taking corporate contracts to pay for volunteer time by creating their
own jobs and companies with do-gooding built in. Enspiral-affiliated
ventures, for instance, include ActionStation, an online organizing
tool; Scoop, an alternative-news source; and Chalkle, an education
platform."
Not wanting to stay with the "Robin Hood" (FLOSS?) model,
of taking contracts with big companies and do jobs that you want to do
in your free time.
Cryptpad: "CryptPad has been supported since 2016 by French
and European research grants such as BPI France, NLNet Foundation, NGI
Trust, Mozilla Open Source Support, as well as donations and
subscriptions to cryptpad.fr. We believe that public money should fund
public code, so the service is fully open source. This means anyone can
use, host, and modify the software." + "CryptPad is made at XWiki, a
company based in Paris, France that has been making open-source software
for over 15 years." <https://cryptpad.fr/what-is-cryptpad.html>
Meet-Coop: "Meet.coop is a multi-stakeholder cooperative with
two types of Members: Our Operational Members work in specific roles
within three sociocratic circles, to deliver reliable video conferencing
services to our User Members." <https://www.meet.coop/about/>
These are distribution/collaboration models:
[federated networks as a whole different kind of network, where
groups cluster, relations between clusters can be opened or cut off....
creating a space for negotiation how the network operates]
federation/federated networks fedeproxy <https://fedeproxy.eu/blog/2021/01/16/what-is-fedeproxy/> "Service
portability is achieved because federated forges continuously maintain
identical copies of the software project although they are operated by
independent actors and running different servers and user interfaces."
[connects to an ongoing conversation around "bridging" within
Varia, in relation to the making process of our "narrowcast"
infrastructure: https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/]
We found these operated as ghosts of other technopolitical arrangements, still latent but no longer active: (services which died) (attitudes that applied in the past but
now feel out of joint?, e.g. cyberpunk, cyberfeminism, forking it all,
low cost travelling to keep networks alive, ...)(this connects to
genealogies too)+1!
This is an ongoing collection of formulations that refer to "alternative" software:
"Consentful technologies are digital applications and spaces
that are built with consent at their core, and that support the
self-determination of people who use and are affected by these
technologies."
16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation
Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es.
Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les
moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en
ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre
association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et
de volonté du ministère.
Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).
Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.
March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use
We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice.
We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means,
skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its
proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot
compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.
Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.
-- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and
you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues
may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is
downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233
What to say when colleagues propose to work with software
that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free
service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's
infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that
infrastructure?
-- what data is captured?
-- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology?
(is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to
still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)
-- how to support upstream?
For example, from whereby.com's vision page:
Flexible working allows employees to choose the location
they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether
it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each
individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best
work.
Or the statement Framasoft wrote on the 16th of March 2020, see line 245.
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