This is part 4 of our series on Networks of Resilience. See the rest at this link.
Even if you have the knowledge, and the network, sometimes you need to reach beyond the local to engage with others on a broader scale, to share community elsewhere, and to bring that back to your local group. Perhaps you can look to join a club, or start one if it doesn’t exist.
Welcome to the Internet Resiliency Club. The first rule is to talk about it, lots.
As mentioned in part 1, this series has been bubbling around in my drafts since January, so when the following message was posted on Mastodon around June 15th, 2025, things were lined up right.
Good advice, even in terms of general disaster planning and prep, or for living in an area where a storm might sever connections for a while. There’s more information available at the IRC website, which is linked here at bowshock.nl/irc/ . Resources and videos are available there too.
The IRC also has a mailing list, that is growing rapidly (the link was also posted on Hacker news around the same time as it showed up on Mastodon). It’s an idea that represents a return to the original roots of the web, on the infrastructural side, in the same way that the Dialup Pastorale (which we talked about on the podcast too) represents the userland version of it. Back end v front end. You kinda need both.
We’ll continue our look at the Networks of Resilience in future posts and places. Follow the blog or the newsletter, and we’ll let you know when they’re updated.