Hi all, Roel he/him.
An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.
You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at Malmö University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??
I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..
This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337
I regularly try to compute from constrained environments to ensure that my setup is sustainable.
@Seirdy nice to hear!
@rra finding that solar low tech mag project has been a great inspiration, welcome!
@rra Wow, I remember binge-reading some of your blog posts last year, they are so, so well written and informative. It's amazing to be following you here!
@astrojuanlu Thanks! Just to be clear: I'm not the author! I made the site itself, the harware and the design together with Marie Otsuka.
@rra
Nice to meet you, you are blessed! 
