World Party dot XYZ | Ric Frye @ World Party dot XYZ

Ric Frye 5 years ago pinned item friendica

Welcome to The World Party!

This domain was registered and the Friendica software uploaded during a time period in which I was locked out of the Twit machine as the protests over George Floyd's murder were breaking. This is my reaction to the TwitGawdz declaring me a "spammer" for my re-tweets & giving me my first ever "time out".

This domain is my gift to folks who believe in Democratic Socialism and it's very simple:

--if you believe Democratic Socialism works you may belong here at this domain

--if you do not believe in Democratic Socialism you just might not, it's up to you

I do not belong to the faceborg so I registered this domain to add another node on a decentralized system, a node focused on UsNotMe & NotMeUs.

I set this up to give like-minded persons a place to relate to one another without the rest of the planet looking over your shoulder like Twitter & other popular centralized capitalist networks do. A place each of us can have a little space get to know one another better and build more solidarity while we work to build an international coalition of people with understandings similar to our own working towards a peaceful and prosperous legacy for the children of this only green planet circling our sun.

The basic TOS is simple: Be Most Excellent To One Another. I think that mastodon.social has one that is hard to beat, so I'm going to go with that for those who need stuff spelled out in greater detail. It can be found at this link: https://mastodon.social/about/more

Ric Frye 4 years ago friendica

Our Site Logo

Since there was still no group signed up to meet with after 30 days now (wistful sigh!) I lobbied myself into choosing this graphic for our site's logo. Hope it is something everyone will be able to live with because it looks a little cross-eyed & goofy at 32 pixels.

On another note: The hosting & domain registration is paid up for the next two years & I will be working on getting that extended farther into the future just in case I'm not smarter than a certain virus, LOL! That would give whomever the UsNotMe around here is going to be some time to plan for themselves if they wanted to keep the domain going wherever in cyberspace they want to keep it.

This project was born out of the love I have for the wonderful peeps that decided I was worth a follow at a certain popular commercial platform in order to provide a non-commercial alternative space for community building & info sharing. And a place to hang when we get suspended over there!

Mainly, though, it's simply an experiment with a non-commercial social media platform with the mission of putting a DemSoc node on the Friendi.ca network & give Berners who don't want to be faceborg an alternative #NotMeUs platform to share.

#NotMeUs