User:Bohye Woo/Special Issue 8

Special Issue #08 — The Network we (de)Served

In my project, There are three infrastructures I made to host, to chat, and to publish.
My server — A hosting infrastructure where I talk about a dependency map, a web tool for tracing the routers, and some situations I went through whilst installing the server.
An XMPP(Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) that is a chatting infrastructure which I eventually made my own tool with.
An Annotation Bot as a media tool — A publishing infrastructure that I had been developing as a way to annotate some thoughts.

Building up research question

How can we show outsiders to show that the alternatives are valuable than the mainstream? (ex. Facebook or Mastodon - network effect.) What contents this alternative will provide that will radically make everyone feel different? (anciety) (Geert Lovink's text.)

Is there a critical point of the amount of nodes(users) that network has gathered to determine if it’s mainstream network? This critical point is defined by what? Would it be a market percentage? Or by public's preference? Whati is the consequences? in terms of economy etc..

Do the alternative federated networks want to preserve itself always as an alternative to mainstream, or do they aim to overthrow the mainstream overall? what are the assumption? Can alternative have this ambition? Should alternative have this ambition?

Sustainability and finalicality of the platform: Should the alternative establishes a code of conduct (set rules) to control of its own behaviour to distinguish itself from the mainstream? (Ex. Facebook is gathering the information to sell data, pitching it advertisement… ) If you don’t do this mainstream, how can alternatives sustain themselves?

Infrastructour

DOCUMENTATION: Infrastructour
MY SERVER:http://sweetandsour.chickenkiller.com (77.172.158.66:4444)

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SERVER — A HOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE

ANNOTATION BOT — A PUBLISHING INFRASTRUCTURE

FROM A FEMINIST SERVER (https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/feministserver)

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