Darius, who is also known as Tiny Subversions on the www, is an internet artist and a researcher on the future of social networks.

Based out of Portland, Oregon, he has recently undertaken a fellowship at the Mozilla Foundation in Berlin which resulted in “Run your own social” - a manual that teaches anybody how to create and run a social network for their close circle of friends.

We sat down with Darius at The Conference in Malmö, Sweden, to talk about:

Darius’ journey from being a video game developer to blogging to researching the history & culture of the social web
Why we should move away from big social networks — and how that leads to more power to individual people and communities
How you can start your own private social network to share information, discuss topics and host movie nights with 50 of your friends

Here is episode #29 of the co-matter podcast with Darius Kazemi.

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Follow Darius at @tinysubversions on Twitter. Check out the full manual and manifesto to Run Your Own Social at runyourown.social.

A big thank you to The Conference for hosting this conversation.

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