I just want to conclude by sharing how beautiful it is to see governance taking place in this radical, bilingual, deeply grounded digital cooperative. I am so grateful to be a member both personally and through #Socialcoop. If you're not a member of @mayfirst for your personal or organizational needs, please consider becoming one.
note: they are only available to those who are members of social.coop loomio members so if you can't see 'em it's because you haven't joined our governance platform!
They are long but JUICY. Read to the end for the latest goss on the spam wave ;)
Looking forward to collaborating with MORE lovely people moving forward!
If your #opensource project has been accumulating donations, and you're not quite sure what to do with them because the income isn't enough to hire someone full-time, I wrote a guide for you!
"My main takeaway is the internet and the open web as we know it are fragile. And these companies that we take for granted, and we think of as somewhat infallible, are for sale to the highest bidder. And when that happens, which we saw so clearly with Elon, there's very little a board or the employees, and certainly not the users, can do to stop it."
I think I must be the only person who isn't receiving Mastodon spam. Anybody else at #SocialCoop dealing with this? Or has the mod team just been extremely on top of things?
Hey #Socialcoop friends, a question: what would you think of us piloting a Personal Data Server for Bluesky under the co-op? No commitment, just an experiment.
@Matt_Noyes@robin@boris I would love to support all those and have tried several times to initiate proposals in #Socialcoop to support cooperative tech.
Bluesky is gaining a lot of traction, and I think it is worth experimenting with how far we can take co-op control in that protocol. If nothing else to understand whether the federation they propose involves real control.
OK! It's time to schedule a #CoSocialCastopod kick off meeting next week, an open working group for learning, configuring, using, and documenting @Castopod
If you'd like to participate, please register on the forum, and let us know what times next week work: