Punks need to ditch corporate social medial platforms and get on the Fediverse.
Why
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. It feels necessary to be on these platforms to "stay connected", yet paradoxically they increase our isolation. Their purpose is to extract profit, not to help us connect.
Depending on where you are in the world, Meta's Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp may be the preferred social media for punks. Or it may be Telegram or Twitter or Discord.
As the evils of a given corporate platform become more and more apparent, punks have a tendency to jump to another app en masse. We don't want to see another jump from one billionaire-investor-owned centralized corporate platform to another.
Meta, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, Discord, Substack, Google's YouTube, Reddit, and even Bluesky - these corporate platforms are all built on the same twisted dream of monopolizing our attention to extract profit. There is nothing truly liberatory, DIY, or punk about any of them.
Simply put, it's embarrassing how much punk culture gets shared on these apps and only on these apps.
Instead of jumping between online capitalist corporate platforms, we propose a radical alternative that's actually aligned with punk values:
The Fediverse ⁂
...a network for open, autonomous, decentralized, not-for-profit, and DIY social media.
On this site, you'll find information and resources for punks to learn about and get started on the Fediverse.
Guide
Read our Guide to Mastodon and The Fediverse (for punks)
It explains in more detail what the Fediverse is, how it works, what makes it useful punks, and walks you through signing up for a Mastodon account.
(Originally published as a How-To by The Counterforce)
Zines and Flyers
The above guide is available as a printable zine in multiple languages.
We also have other zines and pamphlets for you to print and distribute.
Punks on the Fediverse
A list of punk-aligned Fediverse servers. Find out if there is a server already in your region.
More resources
More links and resources for learning about the Fediverse.
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