Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 67

@gdorn Hubzilla and Diaspora seem like the closest projects to Facebook at the moment. (The most developed, at least.) Hubzilla supports ActivityPub, and has concepts analogous to groups/forums, threaded convos. Great intro from @dsh here: https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e

@Megan Very true. It's important for the alternative structures to be resilient to just getting reconsumed by capital.

Great to see reuse and recycling flagged as key parts of the Jackson plan, part of a deemphasis of production/consumption. Even tool libraries get a mention! I'd like to see repair get more of an explicit mention too.

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Places bypassed by capital might provide the best opportunity for alternative economies.

"the weak and relatively sparse concentration of capital in Mississippi creates a degree of "breathing room" on the margins and within the cracks of the capitalist system that a project like ours can maneuver and experiment within in the quest to build a viable anti-capitalist alternative."

Makes me think cities like London are probably lost causes for now.

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Loving the first chapter of Jackson Rising. Straight-up practical details on bootstrapping a solidarity economy, from people that are doing it, and doing it in pretty adverse conditions.

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@natecull @pdcull Or on a larger scale the transition town movement is all about community development and resilience. (https://transitionnetwork.org/about-the-movement/what-is-transition/)

@natecull @pdcull It sounds a little bit like a social centre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_center).

@Matt_Noyes @mattcropp No specific instances that I've seen. But all of those solidarity economy topics are relevant to my interests and I'd be happy to see them on the local timeline ;)

https://darajapress.com/catalog/jackson-rising-the-struggle-for-economic-democracy-and-self-determination-in-jackson-mississippi

Voting closed, and the next book for the social.coop reading group will be Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.

"Jackson Rising is a chronicle of one of the most dynamic, but under-documented experiments in radical social transformation taking place in the United States."

Looking forward to learning about Cooperation Jackson.

And with that, I'll pass the hosting baton on to @Matt_Noyes. Cheers!

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Damn. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/free-syrian-army-group-captures-afrin-city-180318081430817.html

@paulfree14 Hope to see you back soon.

@douginamug For web apps I like the model where everything is 100% freely licensed and self-hostable, but the project itself offers hosting. Wallabag does that with https://wallabag.it, though I don't know how well it sustains them.

That doesn't work for applications though. At social.coop we've also been thinking a little recently about if/how the coop model could be applied to FOSS projects. Some discussion here: https://www.loomio.org/d/r1KuYn6q/foss-cooperatives-a-white-paper-

If you've not had chance to vote yet, the choice of book for the next social.coop reading group ends in about a day.

You can vote on your desired books here: https://www.loomio.org/d/jkmWTu13/readings-selection

If you're not in the reading group yet, you can get joined up here: https://www.loomio.org/g/5QKrvbgs/social-coop-reading-group

Join in! It's fun!

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@denidimochka @cliffregis recently mentioned that he is starting a platform coop alternative to LinkedIn.

@douginamug Heh, yup.

I kind of phrased that wrong. What I really meant was - any examples of those in power, voting for, or accepting, something which genuinely removes their power.

Are there any examples, ever, anywhere, of the turkeys voting for Christmas?