Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 100

People investigating #vero #socialnetwork:
Don't join another clusterf*ck silicon valley startup that will sell your data
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try the open source not selling your data solution: #mastodon.
https://joinmastodon.org/

When people engage in discussions, there's a minimal level of sophistication about basic terminology and concepts they must be competent with.

That's not intellectual elitism.

What's is incredibly unreasonable and elitist (in the sense that it's a borderline offensive expression of entitlement) is to pretend that the burden of your education, and teaching you the abc of even single simple terms must be a burden for the other person to meet your level of basic incomprehension.

I'm a big fan of the Web's DIY culture. But I wonder if sometimes we focus too much on the open source technologies that let anyone publish on the web (e.g. https://selfhostedweb.org/ https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club) instead of the social hacking needed to form collectives that are more resilient than an individuals DNS registration and server setup. If you have thoughts about that I'd love to hear them.

Further thoughts on Issues that still need to be resolved on "permanent web" stuff #ipfs, #scuttlebutt:

You don't want the absurdly powerful / gov't /corps to hide information. (permanent data = transparency of the institutions).

But you want to be able to let humans change their minds after they publish something to make it unavailable. Humans must be in control of their personal data. (privacy of the individuals).

You need permanence for transparency.

You need mutability for privacy.

Hi everyone,
I'm Zesky, I'm one of the founders of the AudibleAnarchist project. I've joined because I would like to learn more about the co-op movement and meet great people :) #introduction

We're relaunching OSCurrency our "code for #cooperation". http://oscurrency.org/2018/02/21/sarapis-foundation-partners-with-vermont-resilience-lab-to-relaunch-open-source-project/

@gargron @shel have you thought about adding that kind of thing as part of the instance info API, like the instance icon? rather than having it be centralized in instances.social

Mastodonians—tell me about your current project!

what are the costs associated with setting up a mastodon instance?

Spring's here! https://social.coop/media/Sj8Y3fSbqWcilegKZ1I

"The Co-Op Group", a UK consumer co-operative, advertises in the Daily Mail, which is notorious for its anti-migrant and anti-gay rhetoric.

Lots of angry responses over on birdsite about this. Their social media manager just keeps pointing to a blog post from last year that characterizes it as a "proactive relationship". Very disappointing; conventional for-profits have been far quicker at severing ties with Daily Mail and other hate rags.