I've been an active user of the Fediverse (in particular, of Mastodon) for a while now, but recently I joined a small group of people interested in making it something bigger. The idea of the Fediverse is to create an alternative type of social media that's free of corporate interests that usually plague mainstream social media sites like Instagram or Twitter (I'll continue to call it that because I don't respect Musk).

Our SIG (Special Interest Group) has the focus of spreading awareness of the Fediverse and other, let's say, counter-cultural movements in technology. We also want to help educate people on topics related to technology. Some day we hope to become our city's hackerspace, since it seems it stopped existing a while ago.

We have plans to collaborate with other groups related to information sharing, but for the time being, it seems like will need to wait until next year to start with the bigger projects.

I'll be reading you!

@vgarzareyna@kolektiva.social