[HacktionLab] On the Autistici/Inventati shutdown...

[Mike Harris]

Hi all,

I think a topic on at least some of our minds is the recent shutdown of 
the alternative Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I).

See:

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
https://thenextweb.com/news/autistici-inventati-shutdown-us-terrorist-designation

And many more you can find on the World-Wide-Web.

As a member of the Network23 collective (https://network23.org), which 
has been hosting blogs build on WordPress for social movements and other 
organisations on the left, we have started to get requests for blogs 
from a small sprinkling of the users of the estimated 10,000 blogs that 
A/I hosted.

The problem, N23 is a small project in comparison to A/I and Riseup.  
We're under resources in terms of tech stack, platform, and expert 
time.  It seems that we can only honestly reply to enquiries "sorry, but 
we haven't the resources to host you, good luck!".

There's a lot to talk about here I think: resources, alternatives, 
sustainability, different platform options, where things are hosted, 
having multiple small organisations, rather than all our eggs in one 
basket, time, money, etc...

I think it'll make for some interesting discussions at some point over 
the weekend.

M

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Mike Harris
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