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 I'm thrilled to announce, especially on the occasion of the #Fediforum, that @medlab is launching an Open Social Incubator. Our mission is to support a cohort of community builders who could use extra support in getting to know and learning to use open social tools. Participants will receive $3,500, hands-on support, and a peer community. Please spread the word! Learn more here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/09/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator I think the #GovernableSpaces book tour just ended:) The recording is now available from my conversation yesterday with the brilliant technology scholar and activist Lilly Irani, hosted by no less than the Internet Archive—watch it here: https://archive.org/details/governable-spaces  If there were a local cooperative host for your email, Mastodon, and file-sharing, would you join?
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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 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. 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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@ntnsndr @medlab do i need to download something? I get "network of friends" as an alt text to an image but not much more. Is there a link or a button anywhere?
@ntnsndr @medlab this looks really good, and so needed! Confirming that the link worked fine for me, FYI.
There are no explicit mentions of geography, so is this open to anybody worldwide?