Co-ops joining social.coop
Hi all, I'm new to the community so I would like some guidance on a question I have. I might be wrong, but looking through social.coop members, it looks like it is mostly formed by accounts of individuals, rather than organisations. With the recent takeover of Twitter, there will be co-ops looking for an alternative. Should we be encouraging them to join social.coop? Or would that change the culture of the organisation? Would social.coop have the capacity to absorb a large influx if a lot would join? And would we allow coops to cross-post from twitter (I think large co-op would likely go for that) - and therefore not really engage in the community? Or should we encourage larger co-ops to set up their own instances instead?
Vica
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Thanks for setting this up!
benjamin melançon
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Agreed this should be made clear and welcoming for non-individual accounts, since there have been various claims that it is against "Mastodon" or "fediverse" culture not to have any kind of brand account— when that's simply not true, collective identities have been on the fediverse, Mastodon, and social.coop from the start.
Wait should we be voting as @[email protected] for this? Let's say Agaric (the account) abstains!
888 Co-operative Causeway Limited
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
This sounds good - was a bit unclear when we joined as an organisation whether it was the "done thing"
Rich Jensen
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
I'm a relatively new participant in the culture here and perhaps not entirely informed about the mission, but might 'other organizations' may be too broad an addition? My understanding is that this space is dedicated specifically toward cooperative and democratic social forms. Do we mean to invite @[email protected]?
Joseph Andriano
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Agreed. Makes sense to me.
Luke
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
I'm new to this instance, but seems to me cooperative organisation is about recognising groups as well as individuals, so sounds good to me and maybe making the implicit explicit as Casey says.
Aaron Wolf
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Very strong support! Social.coop should be the hub of cooperatives online.
Harris
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Strongly support. We might consider a different membership dues structure for institutions at some point, but I don't feel strongly about the need to do so now.
Eduardo Mercovich
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Because we are stronger together. :)
Arnold Schrijver
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:45PM
Because this was a minor text change I was about to just Agree, but I Abstain now after reading @Rich Jensen argument which I agree with but is maybe tackled in some other manner I do not know about.