#introduction #reintroduction Hi all, Roel he/him.An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.comCurrently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at MalmΓΆ University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions.. :drake_like: This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337