i'm Christopher, i live in The Hague, Netherlands! i moved here from Seattle 2.5 years ago to continue my cybersecurity freelancing (entrepreneur visa), and I have been a privacy activist for 16 years, which started with running Tor relays and teaching others how to safely run them too

presently in my free time I am working on @discotheque -- a new Dutch Stichting that owns and operates this Mastodon server, gay.amsterdam. we are working on creating a novel organization model that aims to decentralize Trust & Safety in a radical way (blogged about this here https://blog.disobey.net/yawnbox/working-towards-an-organizational-model-for-defending-a-fediverse-community)

this effort to radically decentralize hierarchy native to even Mastodon (and other fediverse) instances is something I thought about while running @emeraldonion -- legal demands sent to an operator has no way to meaningfully inform a community about legal threats. if you're interested in helping work on Disobey Discotheque, please reach out, I'm looking to invite Advisory Board members or Trust and Safety Committee members. in the long term, like i am doing with Emerald Onion, I plan on speaking at hacker conferences about this lead-by-example model for building safe fediverse communities!

i'm very interested in meeting and making new friends in and around the Netherlands ^_^ and i am single :3 I'm passionate about many things: my family and friends, science, the internet, blogging, the fediverse, solarpunk, sailing, off-grid engineering, permaculture, hacker spaces and conferences, vegan cooking, coffee, matcha, swimming, yoga, sci-fi, anime, massages, raves, electronic and contemporary-classical music, trains, bicycles, camping, and learning in general!

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