I’m [redacted] and this is where I host some of my projects. You can follow the site updates via various means.

The contents of this site are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Ok but why don’t you just use social media like a normal person?

Here are some things I don’t want to happen to me on the internet:

The best way for me to engage with the internet in a way that most closely matches my moral and ethical principles, allows me to control my data, and preserves my mental health is to host content on my own domain and use decentralised protocols (RSS, ActivityPub, IMAP) to view content uploaded by others. Other internet users may find the same is true of them.

Linking to me

If you’d like to do so, here are some non-aesthetic buttons:

Check my siteroll for a list of other people’s cool websites I enjoy. Mutual relationships aren’t required.

Interests

Things I am generally enthusiastic about:

29270, activitypub, ancient egypt, androgyny, anglican choral music, archiving, auron, auron/braska, bach, banquo, baroque music, bash, big red guys, big-endianness, braska, brittany, brutalism, celtic languages, centre-ouest bretagne, choral music, criticism, crystal castles, css, culture, decentralisation, deconstruction, dermot morgan, dion lesage, ditto, dns, drake, early music, editor macros, education, elp, emacs, environmentalism, europe, fandom, fandom meta, fanfiction, father ted, fediverse, final fantasy, final fantasy vi, final fantasy x, final fantasy xvi, france, free software, frodo/sam, groupe bel, hassel, heraldry, hignfy, humanities, idents, jethro tull, judas priest, king crimson, larkin, laïcité, linguistics, linux, lolitics, loth’s line, macbeth, massive attack, master/servant pairings, matter of britain, meta, migratory john hurt fandom, modernism, molière, mononymic societies, monty python, music engraving, music theory, my mad fat diary, nfshost, nobuo uematsu, old french, orchestration, org-mode, orthography, orwell, parkour, peep show, peripherality, peurunvan, phan, philip k dick, pink floyd, poher, pokémon, portishead, postmodernism, pride and prejudice cinematic universe, prog, public transport, publishing, python, rabelais, rapid transit, richie faulkner, rise of the ronin, romance languages, rté, science fiction, shakespeare, sir terence, slash, socialism, sonic the hedgehog, stationery, subdomains, surrealism, sustainability, television history, tesco, tex, the beatles, the hunger games, the live mike, the lizzie bennet diaries, the prisoner, the strasbourg oaths, the wicker man, theory, trance, tristan and iseut, trouvères, typesetting, typography, urbex, vaporwave, vhemt, vinyl, vorgium, walt whitman, warrior cats, web 1.0, werewolves, wolves, writing, xml, xsl

I guess I join fanlistings now?

There’s more about me and my [fannish] interests buried here and there in the notes section, particularly under the journal memes heading.

Cultural frame of reference

Principles

Contact + feeds

Any email sent to the @praze.net domain will reach me.

I don’t make general use of for-profit social media. See here for more information on where to find me on the fediverse and elsewhere.

Rather than using third-party websites, I track some of my activities on this site, here.

Verifying my identity

I own and administer the praze.net domain. All content on this domain is authored by me with the exception of the git.praze.net and kes.praze.net subdomains, where a couple of accounts belong to very close associates.

On other domains

Outside this domain, the following accounts belong to me:

  • ovely on archiveofourown
  • pilpaotr on discogs
  • spira.cedex on discord
  • tobli, tobli-test on dreamwidth
  • litrovers on last.fm
  • cornoz on spotify
  • trovere on steam
  • fxrmain, fxrplane on tumblr

Each of these accounts contains the randomly generated string 5n3oi9f somewhere on its main page to verify that it belongs to me (in the case of Discord, it’s in the bio on my profile). If you don’t see it on the page, check the HTML source.

The following accounts also belong to me, but are empty/dormant/used only to bypass login walls or interact with other users’ content:

  • tre.praze.net on bluesky
  • tremeur29 on github
  • 88001641 on pixiv
  • dermotmorgan on tumblr

Anything not on this list isn’t mine (or, much less probably, it may happen to belong to me under my IRL/professional identity). I haven’t linked the accounts directly because this isn’t intended as a carrd-style “where to find me”, although it’s pretty easy to find the actual urls for any of these profiles, obviously.

Shtack