Queer Haus

Queer Haus is a collective with a burning desire to create a social media space where queers, sex workers, and other oppressed minorities can participate under the light of queer feminist anti-racist hacker values. For all of us, it is important to guarantee that Queer Haus is an alternative social platform independent from corporate sponsorships. Because of our politics and values, we want to continue working to improve the features of the platform and continue the exchange with its members, free from commercial bias.

We want to challenge the dependency on the big-tech monopolies and create a safer digital social space for marginal and oppressed queer communities, without mining nor monetizing from personal and private data, and without surveilling our online interactions. We believe that providing a critical alternative is of the utmost importance, particularly during the current times of physical distancing, domestic isolation, and heightened online surveillance. We want to contribute to an Internet governed by smaller communities instead of profit driven corporations.

Queer Haus is our digital "planet" in the distributed social media network called "the fediverse". Much like with our emails, where we are free to choose our own provider, with the fediverse you are free to choose your own community in this network. Each community often has it's own servers and can have its own rules and policies.

Despite running on open-source software and being fuelled on labor of love (aka volunteer work), to maintain Queer Haus we have unavoidable costs to pay for hosting services. For this reason, in times when so many face financial hardship, we would like to ask for those who wish and can afford, to support Queer Haus by making a donation on our Open Collective - a donation service that allows for the transparency of our expenses. You can make a recurring monthly or a one-time donation. 
Every support counts.

Thank you!
QH Team