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# A feminist server ....

- Is a situated technology. Her sense of context results from a federation of competences
- Is run for and by a community that cares enough for her in order to make her exist
- Has an awareness of the materiality of software, hardware and the bodies gathered around it
- Treats network technology as part of a social reality
- Is able to scale up or down, and change processing speed whenever resources require
- At the risk of exposing her own insecurity, opens up processes, tools, sources, habits, patterns
- Does not strive for seamlessness. Talk of transparency too often signals that something needs to be made invisible
- Radically questions the conditions for serving and service; experiments with changing client - server relations where she can
- Avoids efficiency, ease-of-use and reliability because they can be traps
- Knows that networking is actually a parasitic, promiscuous and often awkward practice
- Is autonomous in the sense that she tries to decide for her own dependencies
- Takes control because she wants networks to be mutable and read-write accessible
- Faces her freedom with determination. Vulnerability is not an alibi
- Is a paranodal (we did not mean: paranoid) technology. A feminist server is both inside and outside the network
- Does not confuse a sense of false security with providing a safe place
- Tries hard not to apologize when she is sometimes not available