Pan is a node of the Fediverse, an ensemble independent servers/communities/nodes that communicate among each others.
Tommi, the founder and administrator of this instance, has been a long time Fediverse enthusiastic user.
During Scambi Festival 2022, he invited the Italian collective Etica Digitale to host a Lab about it, and for the occasion we deployed a temporary, experimental Mastodon server.
In November 2022 we decided to step up the game, and found a more stable and meaningful instance. We named it Pan. This instance is born out of the necessity of creating a cozy, friendly, young, enthusiastic and tight community of people who believe in the same values and have some things in common.
Scambi Festival’s staff invented Paneurethic, a neologism synthesizing the essence of our purposes and our values. In a hurry to decide how to name our community, our fabulous Lea suggested Pan, from the ancient Greek Πάν
(Everything). This terms reflects the chaotic vortex of our collective action, while sharing the root of our neologism.
But how does the pan.rent domain name comes into play?
While scrolling through all the possibile domain names, Tommi stumbled upon this TLD, and he could not avoid thinking about his favorite musical ever, the 1996 Rent, by Jonathan Larson. In particular, this passage seems tailored for us:
We're not gonna pay
Last year's rent
This year's rent
Next year's rent
Rent rent rent rent rent
We're not gonna pay rent
'Cause everything is rent
In conclusion, our name wonderfully labels the identity of a group of people and organizations that fight for a better future, for being an “us” for once, instead of a “them”
. We are swirling in a messy messed up pan, dominated by the toxic, destructive ethos of Capitalism and egoism.
In short, we stand everything that entails a better, sustainable and fair future, and we fight for anything against it.
Practically, this means that Pan:
- stands strongly against Capitalism as an economic model and a mentality
- believes in the right of gender auto-determination and condemns any kind of gender discrimination
- strongly favors of any empowerment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- supports and shares any effort carried out in a choral perspective, and without exploiting anyone
- sympathizes with under-represented peaceful minorities
Anyone who has a profile on Pan must share some fundamental characteristics:
- being under-30. We do not discriminate older people and we do not think to be better, but we want to foster debates, dialogue, and sense of belonging among individuals that share the struggles as well as the privileges of belonging to the same generation.
- understanding English. On this instance, we write, chat, speak, and shout in any language. Still, there needs to be some common ground for dialoguing and understanding each other when it is time to have discussions regarding us all.
Among us, there are not only people, but also associations, institutions, organization and entities. Naturally, no age restriction applies to them, but at the same time we demand a close adherence to our philosophy.
You might have noticed that public subscriptions are closed. This is not because we want to be exclusive, but rather the opposite! We would love to welcome anyone who is interested, but we really want to make sure that you are sure you are convinced to be part of this community, and not of any community.
To be invited to create an account, get in touch! You can also ask us to provide you with links to create more than one account, so that you can take some friends with you!
If you are looking for other communities, check Fediverse Observer’s, FediDB’s, or The Federation’s nodes lists.
Pan runs on Mastodon Glitch Edition because it is full of interesting and crazy features, even if it is a bit crazier and unstable: it perfectly reflects this instance’s philosophy.