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Doug Belshaw
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christa

@dajb good clarification! not on the technical side, more on the governance side. there's the "how do we share the load" / "what does admin mean and who does it" / "how do we make decisions" etc considerations (think it would be helpful to have a "so you're thinking about starting a cooperative masto instance; here's things to think about" guide), and my experience is that communities need additional tools to self-govern (we have tried using loom.io on friend camp)

2 Nov 2022 at 16:05 | Open on friend.camp
christa

@dajb so, some of it is mapping the technical domain to collective governance. every instance will have its own approach, obviously, but I think it'd be helpful to have reflections from instances that have done it before as others consider it

2 Nov 2022 at 16:05 | Open on friend.camp
Ed Summers

@christa @dajb runyourown.social/ seems like a good start?

2 Nov 2022 at 16:08 | Open on social.coop
christa

@edsu @dajb definitely agree it's a good start! (I'm on darius's server he describes in that piece). I think there's some additional guidance that would be useful from folks who have done the collective governance part, though (which is why I think social.coop folks could be a great source of that material)

2 Nov 2022 at 16:09 | Open on friend.camp
Jon

@christa @edsu @dajb Great point. @ethanz do you have any insights and/or suggestions about how to talk to about collectively governed Mastodon instances?

2 Nov 2022 at 18:00 | Open on indieweb.social
Doug Belshaw

@christa So I'd like to be part of these discussions as well! 😄

I'm part of social.coop and have experience running a co-op (@weareopencoop) but that doesn't necessarily prepare me, for example, to be admin of exercise.cafe

My questions would be like yours around:

1. Admin/moderation
2. Sustainability (i.e. funding)
3. Decision-making

2 Nov 2022 at 16:08 | Open on social.coop
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