Feminist Principles of the Internet

sufi

lala
it doesnt explicitly mention safe spaces does it - i was thinking that might trigger the reactionaries
 

sufi

lala
If it applies to the whole internet already, i think this place would score well in comparison to the rest
 
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sufi

lala
like so:
If Mumsnet’s women’s rights forum is popular because it responds to the experience of being stuck at home without support or community, it’s done so in a way that leaves Mumsnetters in a political cul-de-sac. The community isolates its members in a bubble of transphobic thought that leaves them free to develop their bigotries without needing to encounter the human beings affected by them. It also inculcates members with a tragically narrow idea of feminism, one that rejects other people fighting for gender liberation. And finally, it puts followers at odds with the broader left, which has been fighting for a world without gender oppression, as well as for benefits Mumsnetters say they care about, such as free child care and well-funded health care.

i'd like to invite Lux Magazine to give this place an audit, i hope we are less toxic than mumsnet at least
 

polystyle

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sufi

lala
Dissensus is

A feminist server ....
  • Is a situated technology. Her sense of context results from a federation of competences
  • Is run for and by a community that cares enough for her in order to make her exist
  • Has an awareness of the materiality of software, hardware and the bodies gathered around it
  • Treats network technology as part of a social reality
  • Is able to scale up or down, and change processing speed whenever resources require
  • At the risk of exposing her own insecurity, opens up processes, tools, sources, habits, patterns
  • Does not strive for seamlessness. Talk of transparency too often signals that something needs to be made invisible
  • Radically questions the conditions for serving and service; experiments with changing client - server relations where she can
  • Avoids efficiency, ease-of-use and reliability because they can be traps
  • Knows that networking is actually a parasitic, promiscuous and often awkward practice
  • Is autonomous in the sense that she tries to decide for her own dependencies
  • Takes control because she wants networks to be mutable and read-write accessible
  • Faces her freedom with determination. Vulnerability is not an alibi
  • Is a paranodal (we did not mean: paranoid) technology. A feminist server is both inside and outside the network
  • Does not confuse a sense of false security with providing a safe place
  • Tries hard not to apologize when she is sometimes not available
 
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