Spinster

26/11/2022

We are excited to announce a new update to Spinster which will include improved UI design, streamlined settings and navigation, and post translations. Please expect a few hours of downtime tonight around 6 pm CT/12 am UK.

We are excited to announce a new update to Spinster, which is currently scheduled to be realized on Saturday, November 26th, at 6 pm CT (12 am UK). Please expect a couple of hours of downtime at this time. The update is primarily aesthetic to bring Spinster in line with

25/01/2021

"It was time to take back the tech. Feminist coder MK Fain created the social media sites Spinster and 4W, out of concern for the silencing of feminists on these platforms. She also helped us at Ovarit during its most vulnerable period of transition from Reddit to our own autonomous space. Fain is an advocate of ‘open source’ software, a based in collaborative project developments which allow ‘users to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software according to their needs’, driven by cooperative competition rather than capitalist models of intellectual property. ‘As late-stage capitalism threatens to seize more and more control of our democracy, the tools we have available to us to resist will be increasingly important. In today’s world, that means technology,’ says Fain. It’s through these accessible technological tools that Ovarit’s volunteer developers were able to create a site that lived up to our hopes and continue to provide more and more features for our users. This autonomy allows our community to flourish, and to develop according to our own needs."

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/ovarit-a-web-of-our-own/

In the face of increasing harassment by men, along with censorship on social media, women are establishing their own spaces online.

10/01/2021

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are increasingly calling for the repeal of Section 230, which provides liability protections to online platforms that host third-party content. M. K. Fain, co-founder of Spinster, writes about how this would impact the social media landscape, including alternative platforms like Spinster:

https://4w.pub/repealing-section-230-is-not-going-to-end-big-tech-censorship

In fact, it’s likely to make it even worse

10/12/2020

Founder M. K. Fain joined Sasha White on the Plebity podcast again this week to give my response to The Atlantic. We went line by line through the whole article, and even caught some previously unnoticed errors! Give it a listen over at Plebity:

https://www.plebity.org/conversations/mk-fain-responds-to-the-atlantic/

We're putting The Atlantic's journalistic process under a microscope. We made every effort to provide a fair, honest and thorough assessment of each claim made in the article, and evaluate the sources that Tiffany relied on. In the traditional journalistic world, a critical piece by a major outlet l...

08/12/2020

Spinster Founder, M. K. Fain, was interviewed for this piece in The Atlantic about women building their own spaces online.

Here is her initial response:

"I obviously disagree with the framing of feminism as a hate group, and one of my beliefs was mischaracterized (I've requested a correction). However, overall I appreciate being given the chance to speak to the reporter for this piece. I hope that this reporting, biased as it is, will help other women discover the amazing work that a team of us have been doing (not just me!) to create spaces to support women's freedom online."

If you haven't yet, please consider joining us to build these important communities for women.

Spinster: https://spinster.xyz
Ovarit: https://ovarit.com

You can support us online via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mkfain

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/reddit-ovarit-the-donald/617320/

After they were banned from Reddit, trans-exclusionary radical feminists became the latest of many toxic communities to simply build their own platform.

29/11/2020

What is Spinster? Founder MK Fain spoke with Meghan Murphy last year on the Feminist Current podcast about how women can fight back against Big Tech censorship with open source and decentralized solutions run by and for women.

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/08/14/podcast-mary-kate-fain-has-found-a-woman-centered-solution-to-twitter-censorship-in-spinster/

Massive social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have come under criticism, of late, for censorship, as well as for failing to support women’s interests. Recently, Twitter has taken to suspending users for criticizing gender identity ideology and for discussing basic biological facts about...

29/11/2020

This article on Feminist Current about Spinster is a year old now, but it's still a great way to get acquainted with Spinster and how we are fighting patriarchy at every level of the tech industry.

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/09/12/spinster-is-in-its-infancy-but-already-making-waves-on-the-fediverse/

From left to right, the male dominated Fediverse is working to silence the thousands of women flocking to Spinster — a new woman-centred social media platform.

29/11/2020

Spinster.xyz is a social network that won't ban you for being a feminist. On Spinster you can speak freely among fellow women, find sisterhood, and spread your message across a larger community.

With over 15,000 users from across the globe, we are one of the largest servers on the Fediverse, an interconnected network of over 5,000 open-source platforms.

Spinster is entirely funded by user donations. We have no ads, and won't collect or sell your data. Our mod team is all women, so you can count on us to have your back.

Join today 👉 https://spinster.xyz

29/11/2020

29/11/2020