Notices by neville park (nev@social.coop), page 52

Regardless of my criticisms of certain people's behavior, folks from other instances critiquing the whole idea of #coops based on the process of defining self-governance sort of indicates that they've never tried it themselves.

It's hard to organize a group of people, because everyone thinks they can be the best #benevolentdictator possible.

#Drama is going to happen, whether you're an in-person group, a message board, or modern social media.

So I'm thinking there's now a pretty strong argument for gender quotas in the standing jury and other positions of influence to try and de-brocialise the running of the place a bit. Ideally we'd see representation from a cross-section of marginalised groups without such measures but I think we have to get the scaffolding in place first.

Social coop members: If you are having a hard time understanding the need to take action on the instance to limit fascists, terfs, etc.

Do not engage a trans, queer, or otherwise marginalized person asking for explanations of terminology or to defend their feelings. They do not owe you an education, and it's emotionally taxing to have to bring every well intentioned reasonable person up to speed.

Instead, DM me and I will do my best to explain it. #socialcoop

Hey! I'm pretty much alone working on #GlitchSoc nowadays!
Which is okay I guess. But it also means I get very few eyeballs looking at my changes, and very few feedback.
So please have a look and tell me what you think about those changes?
- https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/683
- https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/691
- https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/574

Also I'm seeing "screencap dunk" culture coming over already and seriously can we not

Firefighters are struggling to gain control of wildfires burning outside of Berlin because the flames are detonating old grenades and munitions left behind from World War II: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-germany-wildfire-20180824-story.html

me whenever someone on here thinks about making their mastodon instance a co-op https://social.coop/media/FxQy8AGQh8itvUchBxQ