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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:03:38 JST Nathan Schneider

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

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     Dave V. ND9JR (nd3jr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:15:22 JST Dave V. ND9JR

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     @ntnsndr Only if it has direct democracy.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:06:21 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Bruja 🍉

     @gaba because for lots of people the local is an important locus of identity and dense networks.

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     Bruja 🍉 (gaba@systerserver.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:06:24 JST Bruja 🍉

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     @ntnsndr why local?

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     Robin Riley (fka Josh) (josh@josh.tel)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:07:38 JST Robin Riley (fka Josh)

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     @ntnsndr If I wasn't already happy with my setup, absolutely! Naturally, I'd want them to also offer Matrix 😀

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:07:38 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Robin Riley (fka Josh)

     @josh yeah, I would too. With the stack I'm thinking of, Matrix would be easy.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:08:15 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • a libi rose

     @rose_alibi maybe you? Maybe it lives in the MAL? :)

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     a libi rose (rose_alibi@post.lurk.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:08:16 JST a libi rose

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     @ntnsndr in theory, yes. in practice, who is involved?

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:10:39 JST Nathan Schneider

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     The domain name would have to be cool

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     Leo Gaggl (leogaggl@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 12:10:28 JST Leo Gaggl

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     @ntnsndr if it can provide custom domain support and respects privacy I am sure there is a market for it.
     I am constantly asked for this.

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     kaleb (kalebpace@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 18:17:40 JST kaleb

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     @ntnsndr I absolutely would! I've often wondered if running these types of services under a credit union's umbrella of products would be beneficial in both privacy/security as well as being more established/accessible to a community as an entity. Could potentially become a data stewarding service + payment processor too.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 23:10:48 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • kaleb

     @kalebpace yes, me too—i have suggested it to CU execs and got the impression they had no interest in growing their risk profile

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 23:13:34 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Thomas

     @thomasw totally reasonable points. And I think this is one thing I prefer about the composable model of AT Protocol: the layering of relationships, rather than Mastodon's one size fits all.

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     Thomas (thomasw@toot.bldrweb.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 23:13:35 JST Thomas

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     @ntnsndr

     I guess another point I was trying to make: I love the idea of community/self hosted identities and spaces and tools, but I don't think I want my identity(ies) closely coupled to my physical location. I want something more permanent for my identity association.

     And I usually want to minimize the number of identities I have to manage. From a privacy perspective, separate identities rarely remain fully separate, so I'd rather not fool myself into thinking they do. I mostly want these two:

     - Thomas (for most everything)
     - anonymous (when needed, fully ephemeral)

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     Thomas (thomasw@toot.bldrweb.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 23:13:36 JST Thomas

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     @ntnsndr bldrweb is doing alright, I think. Not seeing much member growth, but that's ok.

     I don't think my local server is big enough to be useful for local-focused discussions. It seems hashtags are better for that. #boulder

     I think in general, accounts (identities) should not be location specific. People move. People have multiple simultaneous locations/communities. Etc. And they don't want to manage multiple accounts (or inboxes) or try to migrate things when moving locations.

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     Thomas (thomasw@toot.bldrweb.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 23:13:36 JST Thomas

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     @ntnsndr Co-op/collaborative adim or selfhosted online communities and other tools: yes!

     But I think a lot of care needs to be taken when thinking about which parts define an online identity (and thus don't change or change infrequently and/or are mutually exclusive if you want multiple simultaneously) and which parts are communities your identity participates in.

     Roughly, in my mind anyway:

     Email, username, etc: identity

     Discourse posts, toots, files, slack messages: things done by the identity.

     Not the best expression of my thoughts here, but hopefully that's interesting, at least 😀

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:00:29 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • May First Movement Technology
     • Avner

     @Avner @mayfirst I'm a happy member!

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     Avner (avner@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:00:30 JST Avner

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     • May First Movement Technology

     @ntnsndr I'm not sure who they'd qualify as "local" for, but I have been considering a move to @mayfirst (https://mayfirst.coop/en/), so... maybe!

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:12:43 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • reynir
     • data.coop
     • Sam A.

     @sam @reynir @datacoop Wow this looks FANTASTIC! So good to see it.

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     Sam A. (sam@social.data.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:12:54 JST Sam A.

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     • reynir
     • data.coop

     @reynir @ntnsndr

     @datacoop is what you're looking for :D

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     reynir (reynir@social.data.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:12:55 JST reynir

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     @ntnsndr yes! I already joined data.coop.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 04:40:03 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Bonfire
     • Thomas

     @thomasw @bonfire Agreed!

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     Thomas (thomasw@toot.bldrweb.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 04:40:04 JST Thomas

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     • Bonfire

     @ntnsndr agreed, but I'm still pretty skeptical of the ownership/control over there. I'm hopeful that projects like @bonfire can give us the community level filters while still maintaining federation or portable identity.