Robert Benjamin @rbenjamin@social.coop
#PlatformCoop architect. Dedicated to the balanced ownership future.
Here's the thing.
A lot of people like centralization.
They like ease of use.
They like distractive engagement.
They like scale.
Why not give them what they want but also give them the Ownership?
Let them be responsible for both the successes and the failures.
And in the instances where it all works out let them reap the rewards.
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You’re damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
Well at least that takes you being damned out from consideration.
Put your faith in process because people are invariably biased and inconsistent.
Put your faith in people because process is never without failures and routinely go out of date.
After all, even the best processes are designed and maintained by people.
Hey all you social coopeteers!
A working CoC is finally up for member wide vote. So far only 20 members have weighed in. WHAT SAY YOU?
https://www.loomio.org/d/o1nThK68/code-of-conduct
And for bonus points if you hate this version CONGRATULATIONS!!! you have been nominated to spearhead the next iteration.
Sign up here -
https://www.loomio.org/p/QtOuroe2/urgent-volunteer-to-lead-the-coc-process-from-here
There is a vote and associated discussion going on about a proposed Code of Conduct for social.coop, closing in 6 days. As a coop member, everyone's eyes, minds, and voices are important in matters of governance, especially where things like this are concerned.
Please engage with the draft document itself:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNXdnDTRz897rXRHoTGwaeoFfZI7-_cwplF2qvy-W8Q/edit?usp=sharing
and the discussion thread for the vote on Loomio:
Choosing to opt out from a generally toxic and/or useless conversation can speak volumes to one's integrity more than having the last word would.
For all the potential of online connection place still matters.
If you live or have deep connections to where an abundance of resources in knowledge, funding (and most important) motivated likeminded colalborators reside you get greater access to those opportunities.
If you do not you do not. Period. No matter how many times you tweet or toot @ them.
For #platfromcoop development in the U.S. it's NYC.
For progressive coop development in general it's Oakland.
So this is awesome. Anyone at PCC know how much (or if any) of those funds will go towards helping develop and launch specific platform coops?
Say like a cooperatively owned competitor to Google owned Youtube?
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Pretty sure I just saw a group of Crows dropping green walnuts onto the road in front of oncoming cars and then swooping down and removing the opened goods.
Knew crows were smart but that is kind of ridiculous.
Move over Aliens or #AI I've got my money on sentient vengeful crows as the primary method of non self inflicted humanity demise.
Nothing wrong with gamification if the players control the game.
Nothing wrong with competition if the competitors are the ones to benefit.
Then there's the scourge of Google owned #youtube.
I don’t see cooperatives as particularly cool or en vogue, they’re really quite clunky as a brand and a shit load of work in reality.
What they are though is a lifeline to millions living in poverty or struggling to make living wages or just to have a balanced healthy life.
They’re a solution that is self organizing and doesn’t require waiting around for large scale government/economic system reorganization.
This is why we can’t stop- won’t stop- until 51% of the planet goes coop.
Counter point:
Now is not the time to be cooperatively passive or passively cooperative.
Not with where the world has been.
Not with where it is heading.
Not when there is opportunity to change it.
We're really good at spreading stuff when we think people do wrong, but we rarely take the time to spread it when they admit to those faults and apologize and try to go better.
Without a process in place for voices to be truly represented and heard brute passion becomes the only tool to effect change.
When passion and patience run thin it turns to divisive rhetoric.
When that fails apathy digs in.
Meanwhile the Sun continues burning off its finite supply of hydrogen-
until one day it runs out and there is nothing left but a dark lifeless dwarf planet-
circling what’s left of the Milky Way Galaxy.
64,000 plus followers on Mastodon?!!
How does someone get to that kind of follow number in this crazy federated world?
Some days it doesn’t seem like there is more than 10,000 active users on the entire extended network.
Of course I am Hiragana illiterate so I have no idea who or what the person/bot is?
Maybe they are just a big deal.
I’m still so confused. Was this #forkoff situation the result of actual code that was written and ready to go but not incorporated into the last update OR from independent demand signals from instances or users in instances for new functionality that they wanted to see but wouldn’t be creating it themselves?
If it was code and/or functionality desires is there a list of what they were?
How the hell does all of this work anyway?