404.xpub.nl

This is a wiki zine in the making for the new XPUB1 students!

Moderation

We wrote a XXX

Glossary

general terms

Fediverse

Instance

Mastodon

part of the moderation

* nasty: all things unkind; sexism, racism, queer antagonism, xenophobia, ableism, ageism, media containing sexualized depictions of children and other kinds of oppression or general mean spiritedness.

* to dox: out someone's personal information like their address, name, physical manifestation without their consent.  

* boring: do not spam or post unsolicited, irrelevant posts, selfish

* selfish: keep self-promotion on a tasteful level

* irrelevant: this is a space within the themes of but not limited to : Access to tools, accessibility, aesthetic theory, Aesthetics, Alphabet, Amateur librarianship, Anthropocene, anthropology, Anthropology of water, anthropomorphis, Anti-capitalism, Collectibles, Archaeology, Architecture, Archival resources, archive science, Archives, Art, Art and society, Art criticism, Art education, Art history, Artificial Intelligence, Authentication, Authorship, Autonomism, Autonomous Servers, Autonomy, backups, Bauhaus, Biolinguistic, Biopolitics, Black liberation, Black studies, Black theory, Books, bureaucracy, Business & Economics, Caregiving, Certificates, Childhood education, Choreography, Civil disobedience, Classification, Climate change, Cloud Computing, Clouds, Codices, Collectives, Colonialism, Colonisation, Command line, Commodities, Communication and technology, Communication theory, Computational culture, Computational intelligence, Computer poetry, Computer science, Computerised typesetting, Computers, Conceptual art, Conceptual writing, Consensus decision making, Conspiracy theories, Consumption motivation, Contingent Librarianship, Copyright, Corpora, Counter-Cartograph, Counterculture, Crafts & Hobbies, Critical Algorithm Studies, Critical theory, critical thinking, CSS, Cultural Criticism, Cultural geography, Cultural History, Cultural Semantics, cultural studies, Culture and Society, Curriculum studies, Cute studies, Cuteness, Cyber-communism, Cyberculture, Cybernetics, Cyberpunk, Cyberwriting, Dance, dark patterns, data ethics, Data feminism, Data science, Decentralisation, Decolonisation, Deep learning, Democracy, Design, Design education, Diffraction, Digital art, Digital culture, Digital ethnography, digital heritage, Digital objects, Digitisation, Disability studies, DIY, DIY Servers, Documentary, Drama, Dystopia, Dystopic science fiction, Eco Studies, Economics, Education, Electronic publishing, embodiment, Emotionally durable design, Empathy, Entreprecariat, , Environmental anthropology, Environmental Humanities, environmental policy, Ethnography, Exile, Experimental music, Experimental publishing, Experimentation, Extinction, Facial morphology, Fan Studies, feminism,  Feminist criticism, Feminist methods, Feminist Servers, Fieldwork activism, Film, Film studies, FLOSS, Form, free access, Free culture, Fundamentals of Parametric Design with Grasshopper, Futurology, Game Boy; Nintendo; SNES; NES, game design, game manual, games, gender, Gender and sexuality, Gender hierarchies, gender issues in education, Geography, girlhood, Globalization, Grammar, Graphic design, Hacking, Handbook, hegemony, History, History of Science, Home robots, Horror, Hosting, How tos, Human Ecology, human geography, human infrastructure, Human-computer interaction, Humanities, Human–robot relationships, Hybrid publishing, Ideology, Image, Indigenous cultures, Indonesian art initiatives, information science, Information systems, Information visualisation, Infotainment, Infrastructure, Intellectual property, interaction, interactive fiction, Interdisciplinary Studies, Internet, internet measurement, Intimacy, Language, Language acquisition, Language and culture, Language and literature, Law, layout, Legal Theory, Lethargy, Libraries, Libre graphics, Licencing, Linguistics, Literacy, Literary and Cultural Theory, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Literature, loitering, Loss, love; discourse, Magical Realism, Mail art, maker spaces, Makers, Manifestos, Manuals, Maps, Marine ecosystem management, Marine pollution, Marine resources conservation, Marxism, Mathematics, Meat consumption, Meat paradox, Media, Media Art, Media criticism, Media Studies, Media theory, Memoirs, Memory Culture, Mental Illness, Mentalizing, Metafont, MetaPost, Minimalism, Monographs, Morality, Movements, multicultural/diversity education, Mundaneum, Museum and heritage studies, Music, Music industry, Narrative, narrative methods, Natural Language Processing, Nature, Neoliberalism, Neomaterialism, net art, nettime, Network cultures, Networks, Neuroimaging, neutrality, New Media, Noise, Non-Fiction, Notation, Novels, Nuclear power, Observation, Ocean, Ocean studies, Ontological anarchism, Open access, Open Source Publishing, Oral traditions, Orality, organization, Ownership, Pain, Paranodal, Pattern Language, Pedagogy, Performance, Performance art, performativity, Perl (Computer program language), Phenomenology, Philosophy, Philosophy and social aspects, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of violence, Photography, Pirate Radio Broadcasting, Plants, Play, Pleasure, poetic terrorism, Poetry, Political ecology, Political Science, Politics, Politics of violence, Pollution, Pop-psychology, Popular Culture, popular music, Population growth, Positivity, post-capitalism, Post-digital, Post-structuralism, Power, print, Printing - history, privacy, probability, Procedural generation, Programming, Prosody, Protocols, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, Psychology of violence, Public spaces, publications, Publishers and publishing - technological innovations, Publishing, Python, Queer theory, quilting, race, Race awareness, Race discrimination, Radical Feminism, radical history, Radical media, Radiophony, Raspberry Pi, Reading, Relearn, Representation, Resource depletion, Resources, Rhino, Rhinoceros, right to the city, rotterdam, RSS, Rules, Samizdat, Sandbox culture, Scenario modelling, science, Science fiction, Script, Self-discovery, Semiotics, sensorial methods, serious games, Sex drugs & rock'n'roll, Shadow libraries, Shakespeare, Shipping industry, Silicon Valley, Situationism, Smallest Federated Wiki, Social classes in literature, Social Geography, Social history, Social interaction, Social movements, social networks, Social robots, Social Science, social sciences, Sociobiology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Software - production, Software studies, Sound art, Space, Speech acts, Speech identification, squatters, squatting, STEAM, STEM, Style guide, Subject representation, surveillance capitalism, Sustainability, Tactical Publishing, Technical books, Technical images, Technical systems, technique, technology, Technology & Engineering, Technology - history, Technopolitics, Textiles & Costume, The Beatles, The Library Is Open, The Network We (de)Served, Theory and Philosophy, Threads, time, Tools, Translation, Twentieth-century, Typesetting, Typography, uncertainty, Underground culture, Underground publishing, Universal Basic Income, UNIX, Unreadymade, Urban Space, user experience design, User interfaces, utopia, Video art, Virtual ethnography, Visual communication, Visual poetry, Vocal portraits, Voice (Philosophy), Voice identification - history, VPN, VPN with raspberry-pi, water, Weathe, Weaving, whole Earth Catalog, Wiki, wiki4print, Women's rights, Writing, Written communication, zine

This list comes from categories of our online library.

Server

404.xpub.nl runs on a server called debby.

The name debby comes from the operating system that the server runs on: Linux Debian.

The physical machine is hosted (for now, on the 11th of June 2025) in the XPUB studio, near our beloved pen plotters.

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The server, she, is yet to be decorated! There are some stickers in the studio that are waiting to be sticked onto the machine.

Is debby allergic to AI? Of course she is.

We installed Linux ourselves on the machine. This was very smoothly.

However....

When installing Mastodon... this was a different story.

As of Tuesday September 2nd, 404.xpub.nl is running, has 10 users and is open for sign up with invitation ;)

However, there is an issue remaining: while users of 404.xpub.nl are able to sign up, post and follow each other, we are currently not able to federate with other instances. Practically this means that users signed up on 404.xpub.nl (our instance) can sign up, post and follow each other, they are not able to follow users on other instances, nor see their posts. So right now we have a small echo chamber where we only see and post for ourselves. This issue will be addressed by the server group (and whoever finds joy in debugging) in the upcoming weeks.

The installation was done by four students: Kiara, Eleni, Kim and Claudio. None of them had any server experience in the past. So this could be you ;). JOIN THE TEAM!

Further reading

If you want to take a dive into the notes of the prototying sessions we did around the Fediverse in May/June 2025, you can find everything here: Becoming part of Fediverse