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Cultural Infrastructure & Digital Commons

Interviews, essays, and resources about the cultural infrastructure. From independent platforms, free software, and digital commons to collectives, community centers, DIY venues, autonomous spaces, and other projects built outside corporate and capitalist platform control.

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Faircamp: A Radically Sustainable Tool for Music Publishing

Mittens XVX Jun 26, 2026

Faircamp is a free software tool for artists who want to publish music on their own terms. You point it to a folder of audio files, and it generates a clean, portable, self-contained static…

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La Cultura del Barrio: Sports, Antifascism & Neighborhood Power in Buenos Aires

DIY Conspiracy Feb 20, 2026

La Cultura del Barrio in the neighborhood of Villa Crespo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the 2025 recipients of the funds distributed annually by DIY Solidarity. With the 2026…

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Mirlo: The Bandcamp Alternative Building Federative & Decentralized Tools for Music…

Mittens XVX Dec 3, 2025

Trying to stay consistent at running a DIY punk website for years often brings me a weird kind of pressure and internal conflicts: the routine of reviewing as many records as possible, the…

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Dajjeh: Building & Sustaining a DIY Punk Community in Beirut

Mittens XVX May 21, 2025

Among the projects DIY Solidarity funded this year was Dajjeh (ضجة, Arabic for “loud noise,” a word often used to mean something disturbingly awful), an informal collective of seven people…

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Satan Not Hatin’: Pushing Back Against Hate & Bigotry in Alt Music Scenes

Gabriel Kuhn May 16, 2025

One of the projects that DIY Solidarity was able to fund this year was Satan Not Hatin’, which is a grassroots campaign launched by the Global Order of Satan to push back against the racism,…

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Infernö Class Recörding: An Interview with Trystan O’Connell

Nathan Brown Mar 21, 2025

The latest recording studio to be born out of the DIY anarcho-punk movement in London is Infernö Class Recörding, responsible for capturing the vibrancy of the recent Eastfield Terminus 10”…

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