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Dear all,

since april 8 we had 50+ new people joined post.lurk.org. Representing a growth of roughly 10% of the total user base.

We're really happy to have new folks here. However, we also wish to only grow slowly. Growing slowly is what made this place what it is. Being small and slow makes moderation workable and gets everyone used to one another. @320x200 @lidia_p and me also need a slow pace to re-evaluate whether we have enough mods etc.

As such, we've disabled invites for now. Registration applications are still open but we won't accept as many.

If you have friends that you desperately want to have try out the fediverse right now, please help them find another server. They will be able to follow you and everyone else on post.lurk.org. If they desperately need to be here for particular reasons, do get in touch.

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Dear all,

since april 8 we had 50+ new people joined post.lurk.org. Representing a growth of roughly 10% of the total user base.

We're really happy to have new folks here. However, we also wish to only grow slowly. Growing slowly is what made this place what it is. Being small and slow makes moderation workable and gets everyone used to one another. @320x200 @lidia_p and me also need a slow pace to re-evaluate whether we have enough mods etc.

As such, we've disabled invites for now. Registration applications are still open but we won't accept as many.

If you have friends that you desperately want to have try out the fediverse right now, please help them find another server. They will be able to follow you and everyone else on post.lurk.org. If they desperately need to be here for particular reasons, do get in touch.

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#introduction #reintroduction

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..

:drake_like: This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337

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#introduction #reintroduction

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..

:drake_like: This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337

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On monday I'm presenting a paper on solar.lowtechmagazine.com during the 'Computing within #Limits' conference.

In the paper I'm describing the design choices we made, such as designing for unavailability and how they were based on reducing a few key metrics such as data transferred, calculations per request and use of third party services. This opens up a way of thinking about #degrowth and ICT. We should be looking in to that waaaay more.

The paper also tries to implicitly answer the 'how do we do sustainable web design?' question and argues aiming for reduction (of bytes transferred, computation and infra required) as useful rule of thumbs guiding a design. That is to say, solar protocols, 'low tech look', 3.5MB dithered images, green CDNs etc ain't it.

However, it also self-criticizes solar.lowtechmagazine.com for the fact that it is so unreproducible and a very limited and 'easy' use case. So yeah no answer but thinking through degrowth should definitely be considered as the direction of the answer..

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/limits21-abbing.pdf

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On monday I'm presenting a paper on solar.lowtechmagazine.com during the 'Computing within #Limits' conference.

In the paper I'm describing the design choices we made, such as designing for unavailability and how they were based on reducing a few key metrics such as data transferred, calculations per request and use of third party services. This opens up a way of thinking about #degrowth and ICT. We should be looking in to that waaaay more.

The paper also tries to implicitly answer the 'how do we do sustainable web design?' question and argues aiming for reduction (of bytes transferred, computation and infra required) as useful rule of thumbs guiding a design. That is to say, solar protocols, 'low tech look', 3.5MB dithered images, green CDNs etc ain't it.

However, it also self-criticizes solar.lowtechmagazine.com for the fact that it is so unreproducible and a very limited and 'easy' use case. So yeah no answer but thinking through degrowth should definitely be considered as the direction of the answer..

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/limits21-abbing.pdf