Decentralized Connection
No membership. No leadership structure. No correct way to participate. No hierarchy. No tithing. No headquarters.
Fellowship is real. Community matters. Belonging is a human need — one that gets exploited by institutions precisely because it is so fundamental.
This project is not against community. It is against the version of community that extracts compliance as the price of belonging.
What we are pointing toward is something closer to what the early communities seem to have had before the institutional machinery arrived: people seeking together, without a hierarchy determining who is in and who is out, without doctrine as membership test, without fear as the binding agent.
The Fediverse Instance
This domain runs a Fediverse server — decentralized social infrastructure that is not owned by any corporation, not dependent on any platform's business model, and not subject to algorithmic manipulation.
The Fediverse is one practical instantiation of decentralized community. You can follow, interact, and participate without surrendering your attention to a centralized feed designed to keep you anxious and engaged.
@greg@firefaithfellowship.com
The Warning (Again)
If this project ever develops controlling membership structures, hierarchical leadership that demands deference, doctrinal tests for belonging, or any mechanism that makes you feel your conscience requires their approval —
treat that as a warning sign.
Not a feature. A failure.
The goal is a signal fire — not a new enclosure.