Notices by Wu-Lee (wulee@social.coop)

That idea sounds exactly like mail blacklists (RBLs), which have already existed for some time, so I wonder if that infrastructure could be minimally modified for this purpose.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5782

@therealraccoon @mayel

@imani

You may be interested in these (USA) initiatives to a) hack debt by rebuying it cheap using the terms granted to debt collectors and deleting it, b) fight debt with collective action.

a) http://rollingjubilee.org/
b) https://debtcollective.org/

Earth: mostly harmless. 80% veggies 15% germs 4.7% mushrooms, slime.

An estimate of the world's biomass composition today, from a paper summarised here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000th-earths-biomass-180969141/

And to corroborate your point:

"Finally, we highlight that the mass of humans is an order of magnitude higher than that of all wild mammals combined and report the historical impact of humanity on the global biomass of prominent taxa, including mammals, fish, and plants."

@risabee @Antanicus https://social.coop/media/RLZVWC0twjK23YfnEGo

Is anyone listening able to create or procure an smtp docker image which we could adopt to manage alias email addresses for our tech working group on a subdomain of social.coop?

I believe it needs to be based on alpine linux...

@fardog @christianbundy, thanks for helping with Thursday's outage - any chance you'd sign up for the tech ops team as per the polls on this loomio thread?

https://www.loomio.org/d/e49bvwiA/place-to-dicuss-the-formation-of-the-tech-admin-ops-team-proposal-

I've been trying to document the actual jobs that need doing here, and I suspect the first task will be doing more of this:

https://github.com/wu-lee/social-coop-docs/blob/wip/jobs.org

(Will move this to git.coop when we have access.)

This is a great talk by @mako if you're interested in peer-production and open source.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html

http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/

FYI and anyone else on #SocialCoop, there's a current Tech Working Group proposal here (closing today!) to buy a share in #WebArchitects to get access to their http://git.coop #GitLab service:

https://www.loomio.org/d/1wlJU8DG/tech-wg-budgeting

(This isn't the final decision, if it passes it'll go to the main admin group on Loomio.)

@gc @mayel @admin
(Please retoot)

Was it #GetTogether?

https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether

However I don't think they've implemented #ActivityPub yet.

Also, check my history, there was a discussion of #Hubzilla, which I was interested in for this purpose - it already implements #ActivityPub (and a bunch of other federated protocols).

@david_ross

Anyone here have an inkling how hard it might be to reskin/adapt #Mastodon, or preferably #Pleroma (simpler) to function like #meetup.com?

Public Service Announcement:

When #linking to #Mastodon posts from #Loomio (and presumably other @ -expanding websites), you need to escape the @ in the username as '@'

Hubzilla seems to do so many things, I wonder why social.coop don't use it? It has forums, blogs, wikis, calendars, events, chatrooms... and it federates.

https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favourite authors.

"The Lucky Strike" is a short story suggesting a possible alternate finale to WW2: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-lucky-strike/

In the middle, I loved "The Wild Shore", about life in California after the US has been decimated by a mysterious nuclear strike.

And at the other end of the scale, the Mars trilogy is a hopeful and tragic imagined history of the creative destruction perpetrated by humanity during the greening of Mars.

@jacobcammack @Aine

The Prof Stephen Hawking supported campaign to challenge UK government / NHS England’s plans to privatise healthcare goes to a surprise THIRD round of crowdfunding. This is to cover NHS England's potential legal expense claims, now estimated at £350k-£450k

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/jr4nhs-round3/

Here is an interesting thought to post to a mastodon instance. From Dmytri Kleiner via P2P Foundation:

"Going back to an early Internet architecture of cooperative, decentralized servers, as projects such as Diaspora, GNU Social, and others are attempting to do, will not work. This is precisely the sort of architecture that anti-disintermediation was designed to defeat. Decentralized systems need to be designed to be counter-anti-disintermediationist."

http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation

I just signed up for this free #MOOC on #coops, run by Univeristy of #edinburgh, starts 8th Jan: https://www.edx.org/course/economic-democracy-cooperative-edinburghx-coopsx-0

"Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative
Could a cooperative market economy, in which firms are owned and controlled by their workers, be a viable and efficient alternative to capitalism?"

#introductions [untypoed!]

I'm an #edinburgh based software engineer who thinks co-operatives might be a better way to make a living, looking for like-minded collaborators.

Interested in P2P Foundation ideas, Rethinking Economics, member of http://edinburghhacklab.com