Community Spotlight: Mastodon
Kim caught up with Andy, Mastodon's new comms lead, for a chat about the Fediverse's poster child. Find out more about the future of the project, how they feel about Bluesky, and how you can get involved.
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Our first three months as the Geeks for Social Change Community!
Our grand plot to overthrow billionaire technologists and place communities in charge of their own technology is gathering pace. Find out about what we've been up to since we launched this blog, and find out how to join us.
Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it
Big tech, especially Meta, is synonymous with queer and trans organising. Kim gets into the weeds exploring how this happened, and suggests some routes out of it including GFSC's own Trans Dimension initiative.
How to establish a Community Technology Partnership
Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨.
Vote Out Covid: community spotlight
GFSC's community Discord supports people using technology to futher their social campaigns. Kim caught up with Dave to chat about his Vote Out Covid campaign's goals for the 1st May UK elections, their Django webapp, and building Corsi-Rosenthal boxes.
GFSC's March Roundup
Ursula Le Guin famously said its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So lets start imagining it: starting with friendship.
How GFSC got to here (Part 1)
Behold, a mythic lore drop from studio founder Kim. Read her never-before-told-story (at least, outside the pub) about the various elements floating in the existential stockpot that slow-cooked GFSC's primordial soup.