There were a few good questions for me after my #Fediday talk about cooperative social networks.
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Another question was why the links I gave for national cooperative organisations to help with forming a cooperative did not have information about forming Fediverse coops. I think there needs to be more information about forming Fediverse coops, and I think that's something we want to do at the SWF.
@evan There's an article there: how to start a cooperative social media platform. Who's in?
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A final question, which I found really interesting, was about volunteer moderators in coop instances (and other instances -- volunteer moderators are not exclusive to coops). Namely, whether members who report moderation problems can feel safe that their reports are confidential, and will be handled professionally. It's a really good question. For CoSocialCa, we have a small team of volunteers who do moderation, and we have a pretty detailed code of conduct that guides our moderation decisions.
But making sure there are listed names and faces for our trust and safety team available to members, a description of how confidential reports are handled, and that members are able to appeal decisions, is all important work.
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But making sure there are listed names and faces for our trust and safety team available to members, a description of how confidential reports are handled, and that members are able to appeal decisions, is all important work.
This was kind of a tough question for me; I'm not sure I understood it fully. I answered it incorrectly the first time and the audience member had to re-ask it later in the Q&A!
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@evan There's an article there: how to start a cooperative social media platform. Who's in?
@Matt_Noyes Some really nice folks made this guide, which I referenced in my talk:
https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/How_to_Make_the_Fediverse_Your_Own
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@Matt_Noyes Some really nice folks made this guide, which I referenced in my talk:
https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/How_to_Make_the_Fediverse_Your_Own
@Matt_Noyes But seriously, SWF is going to host a workshop on Fediverse cooperatives and set up a site for finding or founding Fediverse coops. It would be cool to work together on this!
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@Matt_Noyes Some really nice folks made this guide, which I referenced in my talk:
https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/How_to_Make_the_Fediverse_Your_Own
@evan Ha!
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@Matt_Noyes Some really nice folks made this guide, which I referenced in my talk:
https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/How_to_Make_the_Fediverse_Your_Own
@evan What about recording a video where folks from cosocial and social.coop (and others) go through that article, adding their two cents?
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@evan What about recording a video where folks from cosocial and social.coop (and others) go through that article, adding their two cents?
@Matt_Noyes I think it would be really fun! We had a great joint book club meeting on "Governable Spaces" a few months ago. I think another meetup is in order.
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This was kind of a tough question for me; I'm not sure I understood it fully. I answered it incorrectly the first time and the audience member had to re-ask it later in the Q&A!
I originally answered the question, if a cooperative member disagrees with the moderation policies of the instance, isn't it harder for them to leave? We've done some planning for this at cosocial, although we haven't had to put it into practice, so I talked about that. But that wasn't the question-asker's question.
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