Dan Phiffer @dphiffer@social.coop

"Facebook Suppressed a Story About Brett Kavanaugh’s Opposition to Roe v. Wade. We’re Republishing It."

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/facebook-weekly-standard-suppressed-a-story-about-brett-kavanaughs-opposition-to-roe-v-wade-were-republishing-it/

#Facebook #uspol #censorship

electoral politics is a miserable front with generally poor leverage, but if you can i highly recommend voting.

it’s said “if voting changed anything, it’d be illegal” and, well, it is increasingly illegal. voter disenfranchisement, intimidation, etc.

while i recognize that concessions and compromise in a den of bluebloods and fascists is not my idea of justice or progress, it remains a front. only through a diversity thereof are we strong.

this is not a shitpost.

The bouncer squints skeptically at the ID. "This really you?" he asks, half-jokingly.

"Well, no, it's not," Magritte says, "it's a representation of--"

hey all, just wanted to chime in and say that while we are social.coop members we feel it's inappropriate for essentially a brand to vote on co-op matters.

We are here because we love y'all, we believe in co-ops, and we want to help support the cause so long as it aligns with our ends.

If that's restructuring to be more inclusive, then that's awesome 💖.

look at all the useful kinds of stubs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types#Stub_messages_and_templates

Techbros deprofessionalized moderation and we're all paying for it. Moderation should be as good of a job as SWE - it's just as hard and important (I've been both)

Startup Lessons from @meltheadorable

1. start with a core group of collaborators, deliberately chosen, not all white men
2. have social infrastructure for handling conflict & abuse before launch, including published CoC
3. grow core user base deliberately, in small groups, & tap more diverse networks to combat network effects
4. have all skills & resources needed to maintain organization from the start, focus on sustainability
5. one of core collaborators is an experienced community manager

A convo about the future of social.coop going on in chat: https://matrix.to/#/#SocialCoop:matrix.org

Do join in/follow along.

this is literally the last piece the village voice ever published https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/31/prisonstrike-a-rebellion-inside-americas-profitable-gulag-archipelago/

If you commute, take a different route if you can.

@h

I think I'd like to challenge this idea of 'admins'.

From my understanding, the membership are the admins at the moment. Perhaps the most "admin-y" role is the current temporary standing jury, though until recently, they also couldn't really act without approval from membership.

When hateful/distasteful things happen, I think all of us want "someone" to fix it. I think the challenge lies in us understanding that it is us that needs to fix it... from consumers to creators.