Gregory's Server
If there were a local cooperative host for your email, Mastodon, and file-sharing, would you join?
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This is an incredibly important book—an in-depth, gripping account of among the greatest economic development achievements in US history: cooperative rural electrification. It demonstrates that powerful co-op policy is possible—and how hard investor-owners will fight it. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo238463843.html
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 @mediaarchaeologylab I love that this is the sort of thing the fediverse community is doing, rather than, say, making VC pitch decks @ntnsndr @mediaarchaeologylab Love to see it, ah nostalgia, slightly beautiful, slightly painful. We had one of these in school and we did lessons with Pascal and I may be misremembering but maybe Logo as well (maybe that's a different memory). Just started a thread on having the #SocialCoop Finance Working Group develop an annual comprehensive budget for the co-op—members, please join: https://www.loomio.com/d/wRZ9K2As/developing-a-social-coop-cohesive-budget Oooh, this looks really good: "Moderating the Fediverse," an event with @darius and @lolkat https://lu.ma/II-Fediverse  #Socialcoop stars in this new article by me and @amyadele on why the fediverse is not just a Twitter replacement—it invites us to a whole new orientation to social media: https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/ Thanks fellow cooperators for helping inform this thinking!  @ntnsndr @amyadele my late great uncle Ernest Wistrich (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/ernest-wistrich-obituary) would talk a lot about subsidiarity. It was central to his (and many others') vision for the Europe Union, as you mention, but got diluted with time. I've now published a version of the "How to Make the Fediverse Your Own" document (a love letter from Social.coop to the fediverse) on our official wiki here: https://wiki.social.coop/How-to-make-the-fediverse-your-own.html Please share this version from now on.
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 @ntnsndr @hrheingold planning to use this guidance to inform our instance. I'm still not totally clear on the pros/cons of using Open Collective vs setting up a 501c3. Invading Afghanistan and trying to set up a puppet govt for 20 years was a disaster from the start. Today, remembering my first protest and my first reporting gig: a quixotic protest in late 2001 against the inevitable invasion. They were right. Super excited to see that @compost magazine's first issue is out! https://one.compost.digital/ Dispatches from the digital commons! And they're here on Social.coop! I love how obsessed my daughter is with the gorgeous picture of Silvia Federici in the NYT Mag  Having municipal broadband sometimes means solidarity when your neighbor gets hit with a DDoS. https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/10/09/some-longmont-nextlight-customers-service-affected-by-friday-cyberattack/ |
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If someone set up a Fedi instance for Nottingham, I'd be keen to have an account there for planning covid-careful in-person events. That's a project which would really benefit from connections in the same geographical area.
@ntnsndr I absolutely would! I've often wondered if running these types of services under a credit union's umbrella of products would be beneficial in both privacy/security as well as being more established/accessible to a community as an entity. Could potentially become a data stewarding service + payment processor too.
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-credit-unions-could-help-people-make-most-personal-data
https://insights.co-opfs.org/blog/good-share-reason-credit-unions-nations-second-largest-branch-network
@ntnsndr I absolutely would! I've often wondered if running these types of services under a credit union's umbrella of products would be beneficial in both privacy/security as well as being more established/accessible to a community as an entity. Could potentially become a data stewarding service + payment processor too.
@ntnsndr bldrweb is doing alright, I think. Not seeing much member growth, but that's ok.
I don't think my local server is big enough to be useful for local-focused discussions. It seems hashtags are better for that. #boulder
I think in general, accounts (identities) should not be location specific. People move. People have multiple simultaneous locations/communities. Etc. And they don't want to manage multiple accounts (or inboxes) or try to migrate things when moving locations.