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【I created my first #zine!】

Its title is Knitting Our Internet, and it is quite messy and ugly, but I consider it the essence of what I have been studying/working on for the past couple of years.

I am very grateful to @zelf@sunbeam.city, who hosted the zine making workshop at #p4p, stimulating me to create this.

I am thinking non-stop about next steps. For sure I will be creating a website for the homonymous workshop I have been hosting in many different occasions.

Then maybe a little story/novel about the history of the #Internet and the current #DWeb, #hacking, #FreeSoftware movements?

(In the pictures there is a couple of pages missing in the middle, couldn’t add more images to the post)

#DWeb #noCloud #decentralization #SmallWeb #OurNet #LaNostraRete #p2p #Fediverse #zines #Internet #SoftwareFreedom #workshop

My hand holding the zine with Tempelhof Park in the background.

COVER PAGE:
A big all-caps writing with the title: “Knitting our internet”, then, written in smaller size: “a.k.a. how to make Internet Internet again – with: love, joy, craziness, empathy, antifascism, anticapitalism…”

All the writings are in red, and at the top and bottom of the page there are alternating skewed yellow and black stripes, mimicking the symbols of a work in progress.

My hand holding the zine with Tempelhof Park in the background.

PAGES 2-3:
The title of this section is written in black at the top: “The internet right now”.
There are red lines of paper sticked to the pages with tape, and intersecting in the middle.

On the left, a big all-caps writing with the text: “Who is here?”, with an arrow pointing at the intersection point. On the right, a little writing in purple reciting: “you are here”, with an arrow pointing to a dot placed at the extreme of one red stripe.

My hand holding the zine with Tempelhof Park in the background.

PAGES 6-7:
The title of this section is written a big all-caps writing in red, with the text at the top: “The internet right now”.

A bunch of words are written randomly around the pages: “sprinkly”, “fun”, “green”, “intense”, “weird”, “welcoming”, “decentralized”, “small”, “open”, “complex”, “collective”, “cozy”.

On the bottom-right, a tiny text in black: “and many more nice things that are different for everyone and can’t fit in here”

My hand holding the zine with Tempelhof Park in the background.

END PAGE:
A small writing: “…It’s an eternal WIP”
A big all-caps writing with the text: “Let’s build it together”, then, written in smaller size: “Want to chat about it?” Then my Fediverse username and my website.

All the writings are in red, and at the top and bottom of the page there are alternating skewed yellow and black stripes, mimicking the symbols of a work in progress.