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Community is what motivates.

This page is about our community, third culture and how it works (our collective is a bit different).

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I want to make this page to explain how to use third culture, as we have a lot going on so I want to demystify that a bit! But first we need a bit of intro so you can get an idea why things exist and why we went this approach.

Intro

thirdculture is a collective that takes a counter culture and DIY approach.

With building this collective I actually want to honestly try to live by a counter culture and DIY ethos. To do that I see the best way is to lead by example. Therefore most of what we have built for thirdculture is an honest attempt to achieve that!

Part of what informs the building of the collective is libre and gratis software also known as FOSS/FLOSS software (free (libre) and open source software). I understand the importance and relevance of this may be lost on a lot of artists so I added a bit more of an in-depth explanation here. The TL;DR is that its the DIY art analog to computing and software.

What we run

Everything below is self hosted by us with free software. Most of it opens with one misaki account: open anyone can use it, misaki needs an account, invite must be an ask or given out at events.

forumthe main place, long form discussioninvite socialour fediverse instancemisaki irclate night chat, web client + bouncermisaki xmppprivate messages and group chats, e2eemisaki mumblevoice chat, music bots includedmisaki

thirdgramphoto sharing on pixelfedmisaki notescollaborative markdown docsmisaki pasteencrypted pastebinmisaki transferupload a file, share a linkmisaki filesshared folders, radio media, your sitemisaki gitcode and site repos on forgejomisaki

radioour stations, members can dj liveopen tvlive streams and replaysopen eventsshows and gatheringsopen

searchprivate web search, no trackingopen readerrss reader for your feedsmisaki

The site, forum, search and paste also live on tor and i2p, see the mirrors.

Where we hang out

Third culture hosts a public facing [ forum ]. It is the central place where our collective (and adjacent) discuss a wide range of topics with a slightly better standard of discourse than other means. This is probably the most accessible social part of thirdculture at the moment.

We are also on the [ fediverse ]. We believe in decentralized modes of communication and social networks. It’s really the only true way to gain the benefits of a social platform and avoid the drawbacks of control and authority latent in centralized structures. We strive to be a more tolerant and expressive community than most, while we do only accept members that resonate with our ideals and project in some way. For access drop a line to moridori (at) disroot (dot) org and if you’re cool I’ll drop a link. It’s now on misaki so you may request that way to. We also have an instagram alternative as well if you need your grids and scrolling.

We also maintain an irc server for group communication and a mumble server for voice chat.