Loomio

Social.coop

Social.coop is cooperatively-run, long-running, stable provider of social media. We primarily provide a member-moderated Mastodon server for microblogging on the Fediverse, but we a have a variety of additional services for members and tools for coordinating within the coop.

We are also a community. Our values include: honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Members contribute funds and volunteer labor to set our community policies, steward our data, and manage our shared technologies. As well as maintaining the current services, members can be part of experiments with new social media platforms and tools such as Bonfire.

While many of our members are co-ops or associated with co-ops, anyone who is interested in being part of this cooperatively run community and willing to adhere to our Code of Conduct is welcome to join: join.social.coop.

This Loomio Group is open to all members, and is where governance and operational decisions are made. Our bylaws outline how we govern ourselves, our wiki contains some useful information, and other ways to get involved are below:

Toot with the #SocialCoop hashtag or pop by our chat room if the instance is off-line, or you just want to talk with other members in real time.

Contribute: If you haven't set up your regular financial contribution (membership fee), you can do so on our OpenCollective page.

Join Working Groups! Much of the nitty-gritty work of the co-op takes place in the working groups, which then bring proposals to be ratified by the full group. Current active working groups include:

Community Expectations: Please review our community's Code of Conduct. Social.coop has also agreed to adhere to the International Cooperative Alliance's Statement on Co-operative Values, with which member behavior in social.coop spaces is expected to be in alignment:

"Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others."