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At #SocialCoop, we've been having a mighty debate about whether experiment with ATProto infrastructure. For fellow members, I've just created a sense check around a potential direction for a proposal […]

#SocialCoop @SocialCoop and we're in 4.5.8 🥳 Thanks for your patience! 🙏

Hi all! We're going to try to update Mastodon to 4.5.8, so you will see some (hopefully short) disruption in the next 15-30 minutes 🙂

#SocialCoop @SocialCoop

Zeitgeist and other Fediverse LLMs Last week Laurie Voss announced that he’d released a new Mastodon client called Zeitgeist.blue, “a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours.” As a Mastodon client, it appears to authenticate a given user with an existing instance (including social.coop, potentially) and, using Anthropic or GitHub Copilot, processes timelines for the purposes of summarizing one’s timelines using a large language model (LLM).Many replies to the announcement were critical of the project and took issue with the lack of consent and being subjected to AI surveillance. Voss was dismissive of those concerns, referring to people complaining about the lack of consent mechanisms as “tedious bastards,” and began blocking people replying in the thread.Voss was informed of an existing precedent for people to tag their bios in order to opt-out and subsequently added an opt-out for people who do not want their posts indexed. Initially Zeitgeist indexed everything, including DMs and follower-only posts, but now DMs are filtered out. There is also unique “User Agent” metadata that accompanies requests and theoretically could be used to block requests as an instance, if we chose to take that route.I’d like to start a discussion here of how the cooperative would like to handle this, or other projects that engage in trawling content and processing posts using LLMs. Setting aside the chaotic launch of this one project, do you feel okay with AI systems harvesting posts and training LLMs?Some related essays that might be helpful for thinking about this with: Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers by Jon Pincus Adventures in Mastoland by Jan Lehnardt

For the #SocialCoop crowd: “do you feel okay with AI systems harvesting posts and training LLMs?”
www.loomio.com/d/ASGoq9TQ/zeitgeist-and...

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Hey #coop #cooperatives #housingcoop people - the Stirchley Development Co-op in Birmingham UK is being fucked by their contracted builder (to summarise bluntly) for £1.2m weeks before completion. More info here […]

Social cooperativs blend mission and enterprise to deliver care services while centering community ownership, equity, and shared governance. Join RMEOC in bringing this model to the U.S.: https://www.rmeoc.org/programs/social-cooperative/ #SocialCoop #CareEconomy #EmployeeOwnership #CommunityCare

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[Long unhinged/silly toot]

Just noticed that we've finally doubled our character limit on #SocialCoop from 500 up to a much roomier 1k characters. Thanks to the tech working group for making this happen! To celebrate, I will now post the lyrics to "I love you, Octopus" by Dalmatian Rex and the […]

@Anibyl Woo! Thanks to all involved! #SocialCoop

#SocialCoop has 1000-character limit on posts now 🚀

#SocialCoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!

#SocialCoop the instance will momentarily go down as we try to bump the character limit to 1k :) Thank you for your patience!

⚠️ We're upgrading #SocialCoop to the latest version of Mastodon, v4.5.5. Apologies for the brief outage.

Meet.coop update October 2025 Hi folks, update from me. I got a bit stuck because I haven’t been given access to the sso.meet.coop “master” realm so I can’t access any of the Keycloak admin settings. This is true even from the command line, see: Keycloak: How to add a new User - Mastertheboss I have securely handed over the SSO credentials to ColloCall that were being used on the de.meet.coop server and switched over the domain to point at the ColloCall server. Now we just need ColloCall to spin up the new server. Hopefull...

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3+ weeks, and from what I see on forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-octob... it's not clear when it will work, if ever.

Wondering what this means for our collective membership there?

@ntnsndr
How does #SocialCoop approach infringement from people on other instances?

@ntnsndr
Also, what does the community do immediately when someone starts breaking the rules and causing trouble?
Does the rulebreaker get put in a sort of "time out" until a decision gets reached?

#SocialCoop

@ntnsndr
I'm also interested in some specifics of what the rules mean:
Does the prohibition against transphobia cover respectful critique of the ideas of the transgender movement or is it just about actual hateful speech?

I'm interested in how #SocialCoop's rules and CoC came about.
Were they voted on? Are they continually re-evaluated based on community input? Were they set by the founder(s) (@ntnsndr?) in stone, like a written constitution?

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How does #SocialCoop work?
They make decisions collaboratively. But what is the mechanism? What sorts of things do they vote on?
How do they avoid Sybil attacks? Voting on whether new members are allowed to join?
How are rules decided upon?
Is there a "constitution" of rules that can't be […]

#SocialCoop is going down momentarily to try to update to 4.5! :) We expect to be back within 1h.

Thank you for your patience, and please join our Matrix space for updates or concerns as usual: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Matrix

#SocialCoop is going down momentarily to try to update to 4.5! :) We expect to be back within 1h.

Thank you for your patience, and please join our Matrix space for updates or concerns as usual: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Matrix

And now we're back! That should be the end of maintenance tasks requiring downtime today. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for being part of #SocialCoop !

And now we're back! That should be the end of maintenance tasks requiring downtime today. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for being part of #SocialCoop!

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#SocialCoop maintenance:

Reminder that the server will go down in ~30 minutes!

This might be a good time to take a look at threads and polls over at Loomio 😉 https://www.loomio.com/socialcoop/

For news and to get in touch with each other before it comes back in an estimated ~2h, please check […]

@stephanie I'm so glad to have a competent team running #SocialCoop!

Unlock the power of community-led care! 💡 The Practice and Promise of Social Cooperatives explores global co-op models reshaping care, jobs & democracy. Dive in 👇

www.rmeoc.org/reports/the-practice-and...
#SocialCoop #CareEconomy #CommunityPower #CoopInnovation

Want to shape the future of social co-ops in the U.S.? Join our Community of Practice! Connect with leaders, learn from experts, and explore how shared ownership can transform care and work.
#SocialCoop #SharedOwnership #CareEconomy #CoopMovement #CommunityOfPractice

Cooperative Identity Consultation | Draft Changes to Identity Statement

#SocialCoop friends: Should we submit any suggestions for the cooperative identity revisions? coopidentity.ica.coop/draft-changes-to-the-sta...

Why do smaller social co-ops work so well? It’s not about scaling up, but scaling out—replicating care without losing the vision. Small size helps keep the heart of the mission alive.
#SocialCoop #ScaleOut #CommunityCare #CooperativeModel #CareEconomy

Taking part in my first #cosocialca / #socialcoop reading group next week. We'll be reading Lifehouse by Adam Greenfield over 3 sessions. Excited to get to dive into it with other folks.

This policy kit by Elias Crim for Democracy Policy Network lays out what’s needed to grow the social cooperative movement.
#SocialCoop #PolicyForPeople #CareEconomy #DemocracyInAction #CoopPolicy
democracypolicy.network/agenda/strong-people/str...