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Figure 3: Klodner, M. et al. (2020-). Leaf node9. Retrieved from https://webs.node9. and is a co-author of ActivityStreams, a major open format specifica-
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org/channel/leaf. Solar-power designed field server for forest livinglab exhibited with Livinglabs
zine in Entrance Gallery in Prague. Ecosystems and biodiversity are computationally supported tion for activity protocols, which are used to syndicate activities taken
with sensitivity to local resources, measured by environmental sensors. Leaf’s open social network in social web applications and services, already widely used by web-
node and camera intermediate environmental art experiments from the field research or gallery sites, and decentralized social media hubs, creating a network known as
space. Source: author
the Fediverse. (Monoskop, 2022)
By the time Diaspora* was in its infancy, Mike MacGirvin wrote
the DFRN (Distributed Friends and Relations Network) protocol. Con-
nections to Status.Net via their OStatus protocol, as well as Twitter and
Facebook, were functional. He later studied the source code and pack-
ets of Diaspora*, and thanks to Ilya Zhitomyrsky, succeeded in creating
a functional federation module for the Diaspora. Mike MacGirvin has been
dealing with decentralized protocols for decades. In the 1980s, he wrote
federated software for bulletin boards that provided several services,
file downloads, email, games, and news. It was able to send federated
messages to FidoNet, Bitnet and ARPAnet. Farming in rural Australia,
Mike manages the development of projects for decentralized social net-
works. He has abandoned all project branding and roadmaps in favor of
developing an ethical solution for harmful online communities. When not
battling wildfires, he goes to feed his horses, listens to what they have
to say, and then addresses the concerns of the online community in
the support forum.
The power and money dominated culture of ‘tech-bros’ of
Silicon Valley is rejected also by feminist and cyberfeminist collectives.
The systerserver (2005–) is a physically situated server run by women
to be their own space and medium of expression. They intentionally avoid
proclaimed ‘ease-of-use’ of commercial services for the similar reasons
as (Drucker, 2012) and (Posner, 2016) in digital humanities. Communities
of techno-feminist practice are informed by Donna Haraway’s ‘situated
knowledges’. (Haraway, 1988) The idea concerns how concrete practices
of particular people virtually make truth. Cyberfeminists from KRYSS
Network explain how to understand the notion of feminist server:

“An informal group of feminists have been imagining a more au-
tonomous infrastructure that puts human well-being at the core
of technology and governance, to ensure that the data, work and
memory of feminists are better accessible, preserved, managed
and controlled in ways that allow for the promotion of human rights
and the exercise of online freedoms of opinion and expression,
and of assembly and of association, of rights to information and
privacy, and of how the concept of consent is clearly defined.”
(Lim, Serene & Kuga Thas, M. Angela, 2021)

5 ActivityStreams 2.0 W3C Reccomendation (2017). Retrieved from
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

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