Intergalactic call for a Fediparty

We send a call into the infinite space for people to organize a 🎉 FEDIPARTY 🎉 in each territory. A fediparty is a decentralized concept that anyone can take to create community around the fediverse and fight corporate power.

What is a fediparty?

Inspired by the traditional GNU/Linux Install Parties to release computers from commercial operative systems, we want to generate pleasant spaces, less technical and more political, to promote the use of the fediverse and the principles of libre culture.

This first call is intended to be made in a coordinated way to promote the proposal, but the idea is that then each territory will continue with the meetings with the regularity they want.

What do you do at a party?

• To help other people or groups to create an account in the fediverse and to understand collectively how it works and how to inhabit it.
• Generate community, spawning a meeting place between people or groups who already are part of the fediverse, or that would like to be part, to strengthen our virtual networks outside of corporate social networks.
• Learning and deepening about libre culture, free software and technological degrowth in a talk/debate format, ensuring that a practical and participatory space is maintained.

Recommendations

• 🌮 Bring vegan food (ideally gluten-free) to help generate a pleasant and inclusive space.
• 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 A round of presentations with pronouns (and to ensure that they are respected).

🔥 This proposal is intended to be the spark to light a fire in each territory and to drive the collective force against corporate and capitalist models that attempt to nullify our autonomy and ability to think outside neoliberal logics.

📜 We want to have a compilation of all the fediparties that will happen to improve inter-territorial propagation and collaboration, so here is our email if you want to tell us where and when your fediparty will be: critical.switch@disroot.org

We invite you to craft your own proposal, adapt it, modify it and distribute it freely!

Dissemination material

We provide you with the posters we have made for València (Spain) in case you want to re-use it for your fediparty. You may modify it or adapt it as it best suits you, as we provide the editable files below.

You can download the file ‘.svg’ along with the fonts in this link, we recommend using the free software program Inkscape for editing it. The compressed file contains one version in spanish and one in valencià.

Text

You can get inspiration from the following text or re-use it to announce the event:

We invite you to come to the 🎉 FEDIPARTY 🎉 that we will organize next February X at XX: XXh in XXXXX.

🟢 What is a FEDIPARTY?

We want to generate pleasant spaces, less technical and more political, to encourage the use of the decentralized social networks and the principles of free culture. The alternative to capitalist and already recently brazenly fascist social networks (Instagram, X, Facebook, Youtube, etc.) is the FEDIVERSO, where we will find many free platforms alternative to commercial (Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.). If you have never heard of the “fediverse” you can read this introduction on our website.

📣 There is a wonderful active initiative called “Let’s go together” (https://vamonosjuntas.org/) to collectively move to this precious federate universe called fediverse, we encourage you to join!

🔵 What happens in a fediparty?

• To help other people or groups to create an account in the fediverse and to understand collectively how it works and how to inhabit it.
• Generate community, spawning a meeting place between people or groups who already are part of the fediverse, or that would like to be part, to strengthen our virtual networks outside of corporate social networks.
• Learning and deepening about libre culture, free software and technological degrowth in a talk/debate format, ensuring that a practical and participatory space is maintained.

⚫ Why is it called “fediparty”?

The word comes from the combination of fediverse and party, because we know that for many to get out of commercial social networks (Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, etc.) can feel a bit hard and we may think there is nothing on the other side of the corporate wall, just an abyss of loneliness and boredom… well, nothing could be further from the truth! We promise you that the fediverse is full of life, social movements, memes, debates and fun. Because learning together while we challenge the capitalist monopoly is our ✨ kind of party ✨

This event has been organized in a decentralized and self-managed way in other territories, you can find a list of other fediparties here.

The illustration of the poster has being done by the artist David Revoy, a great defender of free software and the fediverse 💚