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title: "April Update"
date: 2023-04-07T00:00:00-07:00
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<p>it's great to see so many new faces here these past couple of days! this community is really starting to take shape, and i think now might be a good time to go over our goals and what we have planned for the near future.</p>
<p>so, if you're just joining us, welcome! we're an indieweb space for adults who want to get away from the corporate-centric modern internet and embrace the creative, people-oriented, community spirit of the old web. <a href="../discord">this discord server</a> is where we started, but we hope to build something great together.</p>
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    <summary><strong>What do we have right now?</strong></summary>
    <ul>
        <li>we have the discord!</li>
        <li>we have this website! it contains some tutorials and resources to help you build your own place on the web, among other things.</li>
        <li>we offer free email accounts, [you]@32bit.cafe. there's no major usage restrictions, just don't spam or otherwise abuse the service. contact kaylee if you're interested for now, otherwise we will have an intake form soon!</li>
        <li>we also sometimes have events, to celebrate and show off our members' creativity! see <a href="../spring23">our spring event</a> for the latest one.</li>
    </ul>
</details>
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    <summary><strong>Where are we headed?</strong></summary>
    <p>this is the exciting part. we have a lot of improvements planned for the next couple of weeks; in no particular order:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>the website will have some new themes and a bit more polish</li>
        <li>more useful content on the site!</li>
        <li>we're working on a pubnix / tilde server! everyone will soon have access to a linux shell account, with web and gemini hosting as well as other fun stuff.</li>
        <li>we'll soon have a webring for our members to join!</li>
        <li>we hope to host a gitlab (or similar) instance for software projects</li>
        <li>your email account will soon feature protonmail style encryption! note that you will have to reset your password to activate it when this change is brought in</li>
        <li>and much more!</li>
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    <summary><strong>How can I help?</strong></summary>
    <p>32-bit cafe is a community project, and everyone is welcome to help build it! you can contribute in many different ways, but here are just a few:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>you can spread the word, on other servers, forums, or your own site by <a href="../linktous/">linking back to us</a>!</li>
        <li>anyone can make their own theme for our website! you can upload a custom CSS stylesheet which will be publicly available in the theme selector! this process is a bit janky and requires manual oversight right now, but soon there will be a way to edit and preview your code before submitting it - just like on myspace :D</li>
        <li>art of any kind is incredible! buttons, banners, posters, whatever you want to make. (please no AI generated material - as cool as the technology is, it kinda goes against the spirit of a human-centric community)</li>
        <li>we need more content for the site! if you have resources you want to share, knowledge you want to impart, or anything else you think might be useful let us know!</li>
        <li>if you're a techy person and you want to help with the infrastructure side of things, let us know and you can join the technomancy group!</li>
        <li>last but definitely not least, if you have any other ideas for what we could be doing as a community, please let us know!! suggestions are more than welcomed, they're encouraged :) we're having amazingly productive conversations in our discord about what to do next.</li>
    </ul>
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<p>cheers and stay tuned!</p>