Mayel @mayel@social.coop

#introduction I'm a UK #cooperative -ist and anarchist, (www.footprinters.co.uk, www.radicalroutes.co.uk) moving round North America vaguely clock-wisely til Oct 2018, visiting #solidarityeconomy projects with an explicit radical social change focus. That covers a lot of stuff: P2P, decentralised comms, workplace democracy, eco stuff #Faircoin #intentionalcommunity #communes In theory learning what works and what doesn't with enough relevance to apply to #Leeds, #Yorkshire

Egypt has done more than censor the internet. Egypt was found to have hijacked unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptomining 💰

A groundbreaking new report by OONI and AFTE details these anomalies and more: https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship

This is my friend's cat Angel. She is 20 years old today. Boost this toot to wish her a happy birthday! #mastocats

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...Uhm, hello? Anybody there?
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I'm new here. I'm a software engineer living in SF Bay Area. Very curious about social.coop in particular and in general about better ways of interacting, working and being together and in society.

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#introduction #sfbayarea #SocialCoop

I am invited to run a workshop at an event hosted by prodii.com on building #trust in #distributedteams.

One of the questions we'll explore is:

*How do you build trust digitally?
How do you create trust & collaboration with people you don’t know and have never meet in real life?

What do you think? What kind behaviours & conditions are supportive?

@Matt_Noyes
@clhendricksbc
@emi @mattcropp
@mayel
@rbenjamin
@ntnsndr

Who else here knows a lot about this?

#collaboration #patterns

#MondayAnarchy #Anarchism

Should I revive this #MondayAnarchy mastodon effort, or not? Many months ago I initiated this to start a conversation around anarchism or socialism etc starting every monday (when people are annoyed with going to work).

Continue? What should be the next question? theme? or issue?

@njoseph IMHO breaking folks out of the #DataFarms requires every geek to set up a VPS (or box-in-the-closet) for their tribe (150 closest family and friends), and actively trained anyone keen to learn how to do the same; #CommunityHosting more so than #SelfHosting

I'm going to the https://2018.open.coop #platformcoop event in London 26/27 July. I would love to meet up with any #socialcoop people who will be there.

I'll be aiming to talk about https://platform6.coop and P2P crowdsourcing for #coop startups, https://diglife.comand the potential for Cooperation as a Service (CaaS), and looking collaborators, partners and funders 😉

@mike_hales Cooperative management of shared infrastructure is path to "libre." A more libertarian approach is decentralization and federation around fixed (or cooperatively managed?) protocols which deemphasize the need for shared infrastructure in some way.

If we believe that effective cooperatives will be limited in scale or scope, a combination of the two may be necessary. This is more or less what we have here at social.coop which is part of a larger federated network.

Of course, when talking #coops and #tools I'm thinking of social.coop too. If social.coop exists to cooperatively own and operate tool platforms (did I get that right?) . . what other tools than Mastodon will come under the umbrella? And which kinds of users will they be tools for? Tech nerds? Coders? Ordinary everday folks? P2P/solidarity economy activists? Etcetera. Diverse use cases, can't serve 'em all well?

Puzzled . . @mako makes a clear pitch on "Free software production needs free tools" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY&feature=youtu.be
And is very clear on #commons and #P2P (though says most code comes from solo not collaboration!). Yet not a hint of coop ownership of #platforms to keep tools honest & open (GitHub!). Surely tools today become platforms? And platforms require collaboration even if code doesn't? So why doesn't #coop follow automatically, as we talk tools? How does libre not equal coop in FLOSS world?

Anybody heard of the #Zebra movement? A Meet-Up group is apparently starting in Raleigh/Durham. @tbeckett @nmashton

https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/zebrasfix-c467e55f9d96

500px is shutting down access to their #CreativeCommons images! Use this VM to backup the data before the capitalists destroy it. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

#FreeCulture #Boost #ArmchairActivism

Good session about Mastodon + ActivityPub at #OpenSourceBridge (#osb18) -- touching on governance, alternative implementations like #Pleroma, new services like @pixelfed. Thanks to Aaron for notes:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/OSB-Mastodon

Together with the Governance Working Group, I've just posted a proposal to clarify the language in the #SocialCoop Bylaws: https://www.loomio.org/p/1PSop0v2/bylaws-revision-clarify-proposal-process Please participate. The proposal is open for 10 days.

Can you push to multiple git remotes with a single command?

In other words, can I do something like configure one remote "name" that pushes my local changes to several different remotes at the same time?

#lazytoot

Anybody know anything about FairBnB? Apparently it's a #cooperative version of AirBnB.
https://fairbnb.coop/

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉

Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.

https://www.thehum.org/events

The future is cooperative 🌶

@mayel @ti calling this a project is generous. There's a few GitHub issues by 4 people, 20 days ago, and then it stopped. The list is also basically empty