Notices by greg 🌲🌲 (gc@social.coop)

can we please start calling worker cooperatives syndicates? it makes practicing economic democracy sound sooo much sexier

would anyone be interested in a gitea instance for social.coop? I've been running one for myself for awhile, but it's kinda overkill for one person. it'd be super quick to spin up another instance and gitea is super lightweight, so I'd be happy to host it for everyone if someone (@mayel?) can point git.social.coop my way

I am LOVING all the conversations I'm seeing in my tl about selfhosting all different kinds of things and how to democratically govern online communities and software projects 😍😍😍😍😍

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datacenters do not imbue computers with special powers. if you own a desktop less than a decade old, congrats! you already own a server more than capable of hosting any/all of these:

- #gogs
- #nextcloud
- #pleroma
- #rocketchat
- #discourse
- #prestashop
- #funkwhale
- #hugo
- #radicale
- #standardnotes
- #prosody
- #wallabag
- #wordpress
- #etherpad,
- #dokuwiki
- #ttrss
- #kanboard
- #pixelfed
- #loomio
- #pihole
- #taiga
- #kodi
- #searx
- #homeassistant
- #znc

(for free, forever)

T H E G O A L O F
T H E F U T U R E I S
F U L L U N E M P L O Y M E N T

- arthur c. clarke

@Matt_Noyes @ntnsndr @mattcropp my main concern is that certain things only make sense to be done by one person in social.coop, and as of rn, most people in the organization have no idea who does those things, and we have no way to bestow them with that power or take that power away, regardless of whether they abuse their position or just aren't very good at it.

for example: who approves membership applications to social.coop? how did we decide this? what happens if they start accepting nazis?

@deejoe @neil this is what I'm most worried about for the fediverse. federation is useless if it's a federated oligopoly. and when I point this out to people, the usual (but extremely frustrating) response is 'well just don't let it get that centralized then, man.'

while I agree, how does anyone actually plan on doing that? cause we're up against the two most powerful centralizing structural forces in human history - the accumulation of capital, and the network effect.

REQUIRED READING:

the tyranny of structurelessness,
by jo freeman

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

I dread the day that silicon valley 'discovers' the fediverse and it starts getting popular in a Big way.

the day that happens is the day that VC money starts pouring into startups that will try to 'develop' (ie systematically colonize, commercialize, and exploit) the fediverse, which is, as of today, one of the few non-capitalist (as in non-commercialized) spaces left on the internet.

how do we prevent this from happening? how do we make it impossible for this to happen in the first place?

tfw you have to use literal rubber bands to hold your broke ass 3d printer together long enough for it to print itself a replacement part for the piece that broke

what kind of co-op is social.coop?

a consumer co-op?
a worker co-op?
a housing co-op?

so yeah, here I was, just minding my own business, quietly screaming to myself like I have been for the past couple months, when i decided on a whim to finally get around to making an account here. I log in, only to unexpectedly discover this massive community of co-opers who *actually* know what the fuck they're doing when it comes to running co-ops! like, holy fuck I have so many questions

daaaaang there are some dope ass people on social.coop. i want to follow literally everyone!! my people, i have found them!!!!!!