Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as “collaborative filtering”. … The list and related meetings were a strong influence on Bruce Sterling’s 1996 science fiction novel Holy Fire.
Initially, it was both part of an early wave of, and served as an inspiration for, a number of related efforts such as Blast (1995–1998),[5] Rhizome (1996–present), Fibreculture (2001–present), Faces-l and -empyre- (2002–present). Unlike these other efforts, which typically sought to affiliate themselves with institutions in order to become institutionalized, nettime has remained independent — at times fiercely so. Thus, unusually for a mailing list, the family of lists has successfully migrated across a series of hosts — many of them culturally significant in their own right — including in-berlin.de, desk.nl, material.net, thing.net, De Waag kein.org, bitnik.org, and servus.at.
From the beginning, the aim has been to provide a space for a new form of critical discourse on and with the nets, focussing on longer, substantive, yet non-academic writings and discussions. Nettime served early on as a pre-publishing and discussion platform to give critical thinkers and writers an international reach. Due to its particular political style, it was often seen as a European online salon, even though it had from the beginning strong non-European, mainly North-American participation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
In 2022, we opened new instance of nettime, as a node on the fediverse. The transition from 1995 email to 2022 fediverse was surprisingly organic, simply bypassing the monstrosity of centralized social media, jumping from one distributed architecture to the other.
About
tldr.nettime is an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics.
It has grown out of nettime-l, one of the longest-running mailing lists on the net with a focus on the ‘cultural politics of the internet’.
nettime.org
Server
tldr.nettime is based on Glitch-Soc, a fork of Mastodon. It’s compatible with the wider fediverse, but it also offers two tweaks we hope will help make it particularly engaging and fostering a shared sense of place:
- The character count per message is higher — 2000 chars at the moment.
- You can choose whether your post is public or visible only on tldr’s local timeline
Guidelines
We have a commitment to critical analysis, experiments, mutual care, diversity, and anti-discriminatory practices. The instance is lightly moderated, on an account basis. In other words, we will ban accounts that don’t share our commitment.
The community will give itself more detailed rules if necessary.