@darius Ah good point.

@darius @lutindiscret @jonny Matrix is less bad than it could be. And it has threads now, so closer to something like a chat/forum hybrid.

I'm thrilled to announce, especially on the occasion of the #Fediforum, that @medlab is launching an Open Social Incubator.

Our mission is to support a cohort of community builders who could use extra support in getting to know and learning to use open social tools.

Participants will receive $3,500, hands-on support, and a peer community.

Please spread the word! Learn more here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/09/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator

@darius That means a lot coming from you.

I think the #GovernableSpaces book tour just ended:)

The recording is now available from my conversation yesterday with the brilliant technology scholar and activist Lilly Irani, hosted by no less than the Internet Archive—watch it here: https://archive.org/details/governable-spaces

@workingclasshistory Do we have this at the @mediaarchaeologylab?

If there were a local cooperative host for your email, Mastodon, and file-sharing, would you join?

This is an incredibly important book—an in-depth, gripping account of among the greatest economic development achievements in US history: cooperative rural electrification.

It demonstrates that powerful co-op policy is possible—and how hard investor-owners will fight it.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo238463843.html

@feditips in the part on running a server, it would be great to develop materials on cultivating a healthy, co-governed community.