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First sight Before Oct 14, 2020 UTC [?]
Last successful check Jul 14, 2025 UTC
Noxious No
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Software Hometown 4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2
Registrations Open (by admin approval)
Meta’s Threads moderation Unknown (this instance is not listed in the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact list), and its list of moderated instances is not accessible.
Most used hashtags (last week) Art, mastoart, introduction, birding, retrocomputing
Short description
Experimental sound, media, and design. Especially listening, technology, ecologies, capitalism and living through and beyond all of these. Hosted on Malay land.
Long description
This is a meeting, discussion, and sharing space for those working critically and creatively with experimental sound, art and design, especially music, creative audio, listening, technology, ecologies, capitalism and living through and beyond all of these.

It is intended to connect people working within and without institutional support, fostering experimental creative practice.

Ideas, readings, questions, drafts, skill-sharing, resources, things to listen to, shitposts, and anything else that helps us all find new ways of knowing all welcome.

Hosted with respect on Malay land using 100% renewable energy
Instance rules
  1. Avantwhatever.org is a place for those interested in experimental sound, media, and design.
  2. This is a lightly moderated space, but should be a safe space for all and any harassment, bullying or discriminatory behaviour can be reported and will result in intervention from mods and/or admins.
  3. Currently @benbyrne is the only admin and mod. He can be reached by DM, and posts can be reported using the option in the '...' menu.
  4. Please DM @benbyrne if interested in volunteering as an admin or mod.
  5. Any accounts that show no activity for 3 months will be automatically suspended - you can contest the suspension if you want to keep using your account, but otherwise it will be deleted a month later. This is just to ensure we avoid unnecessary data storage and phantom accounts. Lurking is welcome.
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  1. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension
Date of creation Sep 14, 2020 UTC
Display name Ben
Bio
Listener living through big tech and climate crisis

Program manager, digital media at rmit university

Admin at avantwhatever.org
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
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