About the project

Self-hosted

A "server" is a heavily misunderstood term, in the sense that most people don’t know what it entails and are often too afraid to ask. By doing a simple online image search, we end up with countless blue-tinted pictures of sterile rooms, filled with rows of gigantic machines that one would never dare, or even have access to, come close to — gatekept from whoever doesn’t have the keys to the room. This conjured image signifies certain connotations of who has access to technological infrastructures, therefore who holds the power to information. In reality, a server is but a computer, oftentimes with connection to the internet, meant to route processes and services. It can take the form of a laptop, a raspberry pi, a phone, a microcontroller-turnt-charm hanging from a keychain and be hosted in any place; a bedroom, a library, a shoebox — far removed from the widespread myth of the blue, sterile room.

FanonRadio and FanonWiki is hosted on the same small server; a raspberry pi 5 at my home studio.