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_notes/Georgia Bullen.md
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···+Alternative service providers from 19 different regions around the world, focused on hosting and tools.+InfraRed members include over 20 independent, feminist, cooperative, anti-fascist and alternative service providers from 19 different regions that have come together in solidarity to support one another in our shared work. <mark>Our network exists to facilitate communication, transparency, and collaboration on shared projects among the members</mark>, while also affirming the autonomy of each organization.+Our organizations work from different geographic areas in the world and serve different communities, but <mark>we hold a common drive to put power into the hands of the people we support. Technology provides increasing ways for communities and organizations to communicate, share knowledge and organize.</mark> At the same time, capitalism has prioritized the development of technology that harms the environment, exploits workers, and extends the reach of those who most benefit from social inequality. Technology is used by corporations and nation-states to sort us, track us, silence us, imprison us, and commodify our most intimate insecurities.+<mark>The service providers of InfraRed believe in rewriting how technology is used. We believe that technology can be used to fight patriarchy, white supremacy, racism, economic inequality, and other forms of social injustice when technology development and use are grounded in the needs of the humans and social movements we work with every day.</mark>+As technology continues to evolve rapidly, our organizations face daunting challenges of capacity, sustainability, labor, and security. We pledge to face these challenges together, through shared projects, information sharing, and coordination. We commit to overcome barriers of country, gender, language, and financial resources among our members. We commit to prioritize the work and knowledge of women, people of color, people of indigenous/first nation/native communities, and other social groups excluded from access, control, and creation of technology.+**Solidarity**: we will work to support our organizations and the people who run them through financial assistance, networking and training events, and organizational development.+**User and Social Movement Engagement**: we will create feedback loops with our users and social movements to ensure that the technical work we do is informed by their experience and meeting their actual needs.+**Technology Platform**: we will create a shared platform that allows participating service providers to maintain their infrastructure using the best practices for security, automation, scalability, and reliability.+**Shared Infrastructure**: we will create shared resources for infrastructure deployment, software development, and threat mitigation.
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···+> I’m JA Westenberg, the voice behind **Westenberg**. I’m a writer, technologist, and perpetual skeptic, always prying at the edges of systems to see what’s holding them together (or what’s about to break). I’ve spent my life working in and writing about tech, politics, and philosophy, trying to piece together the bigger picture of how we shape the world—and how it shapes us in return. I founded [signalvs](https://signalvs.com/?ref=joanwestenberg.com), a media lab, startup and agency, and [The Index](https://www.theindex.media/?ref=joanwestenberg.com), an independent, reader funded news site.+> **Westenberg** is a blog for people who question the systems around us—whether they’re built from code, culture, or political ideology. It’s a space where technology, philosophy, politics, and productivity all come together, tangled and messy. Mostly because that’s how they are in real life.
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···+> The reality is that these trends aren’t merely parallel — they’re symbiotic. Each creates conditions that accelerate the other, forming a plutocratic power cycle. Digital monopolies generate unprecedented wealth, which translates into unprecedented political influence. This influence prevents effective regulation of digital monopolies, allowing further concentration of both economic and political power.+> Digital Distributism updates this framework for the internet age, recognizing that digital infrastructure is now as fundamental to human flourishing as land was in the agricultural era. It offers a comprehensive alternative to digital feudalism by reimagining how we structure and govern the technologies that increasingly mediate human existence.+> The implementation of Digital Distributism rests on three foundational pillars: infrastructure commons, data sovereignty, and algorithmic democracy. Each pillar requires specific technical and organizational structures to function effectively.+> The infrastructure commons approach begins with core internet protocols and extends to application-layer services. Email provides the archetypal model: SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols enable communication across providers while allowing user choice and control.+Goes on to mention [[ActivityPub]], [[Mastodon]], [[Pixelfed]], [[Warpcast]] / [[Farcaster]], [[Bluesky]] / [[ATProtocol]], [[IETF]], [[Matrix]], [[Solid]], [[IPFS]], [[PeerTube]]+> The key: separating three elements that are often conflated: technical architecture, governance, and ownership. Technical architecture can be centralized for efficiency where appropriate. Governance must be distributed to preserve freedom and prevent abuse. Ownership must be widely held to ensure democratic accountability and prevent the concentration of power.+> To paraphrase Chesterton: The digital distributist road has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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···+> We’re bringing about a more just world by exposing the challenges people face in technology, creating and highlighting alternative models, and championing the global transformative movement in tech.+Design & UX agency that focuses on privacy and security. Was previously known as Simply Secure.+They set up fiscal sponsorship after the shutting down of the Open Collective Foundation in the US.