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I've been thinking that, in addition to the glorious smaller-scale model of #Socialcoop, we need a model #fediverse instance that looks more like a medium-sized credit union. Things like:
- thousands of members rather than hundreds
- professional staff for tech, business, legal, moderation
- less active user participation in governance, but still democratic (e.g., board elections and occasional referendums)
thoughts? @jalcine @emi @LeoSammallahti @schock @mattcropp @darius
@ntnsndr @jalcine @emi @schock @mattcropp @darius
Gonna think about this more but some quick thoughts.
People are more likely to pay money if they can: 
influence how the money is used
the money is used in ways that provide them exclusive benefits
SC is focused on 1. These instances (and hopefully SC too) would be more focused on 2.
Credit unions provide similar services to their specific demographic.Coop instances would vary in services tailored to their specific demographic.
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@ntnsndr @jalcine @emi @schock @mattcropp @darius
So one question could be: what could the tailored member-exclusive benefits be?
Photography instance could enable members to post high quality images, membership fees would pay for storage space. "Video/voice message only" instance to post video/audio files, etc.
Region based instances provide discounts to local businesses, interest based instances to firms that provide relevant services (bicycle instance for bicycle shops), etc.
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@LeoSammallahti @ntnsndr @jalcine @emi @schock @mattcropp @darius I for one want participation and standard services without having to join proprietary ad-spammers and data-miners who act behind my back. That would be kind of a “natural” exclusivity. I pay to 1. have a say; 2. to be left alone
@tanoujin @ntnsndr @jalcine @emi @schock @mattcropp @darius
Social Coop attracts a lot of people who value democracy as a kind of end to itself.
But I think that coops could also succeed where the democracy is more of a means to another primary end.
Think it would be cool if SC members could get stuff like discounts on subscriptions to cooperatively owned online newspapers, or access to shares coop software (like we already have with Meet Coop & MayFirst).
@LeoSammallahti mastodon.lol simply gave "donor" badges to donors, shown on their profiles.