Friends, two weeks ago in New York City, some 300 participants gathered for the third #platformcoop event. This is the space where ideas like #BuyTwitter get a lot of interest and support, even if they are organized autonomously. In fact, on Saturday, Niloufar I co-hosted a session with 20 people including @elakagel visiting from Berlin, to discuss Terms of Service project (https://www.loomio.org/g/FdPqRDTt/buy-twitter-terms-of-service), and at Sunday's "after party" event, @matthewcropp did another session on TOS.

At both events, a handful of people got on the mic to ask for a place where they could continue the conversations, meet more allies, and collaborate around #platformcoop.

I believe that could be easily facilitated by repurposing the #BuyTwitter Slack.

While we already have a #platformcoop email list (https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/platformcoop-discuss), a Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/platformcoop/), and a Mastadon instance (https://social.coop/about)... none of these seem immediately accessible or useful enough for mass participation. I also recognize that Mattermost/Cloudron have a ways to go to being accessible, too, as was discussed in this Loomio group (see https://www.loomio.org/d/0PavpoLD/use-of-cloudron-and-mattermost). Meanwhile, the #BuyTwitter Slack already has a critical mass of 200+ members - we wouldn't need to create a whole new Slack from scratch.