@tillshadeisgone 2) dont know, seems like it would vary by area, but you dont get a house without buying one so i think u just do the best u can here. 3) you could approach an existing coop with an expansion plan, but I would want to really know them and be sure our expectations for governance/responsibility matched. You probably should be in conversation with one and a group like NASCO for support tho. You are not being silly!
@tillshadeisgone I think incorporating before having property so you can finance/buy the property as a nonprofit (we were a 501(c)7) is the normal way, otherwise you can deed it to the nonprofit, but idk how that would work with banks. You dont want to personally hold that debt probably tho. 4) you'll need to continuously look for grants and loans for renovations if youre charging affordable fees. ...
@tillshadeisgone Many ppl (me included) will deal with not perfect house conditions to live in a coop, particularly with healthy house.culture. your fees will probably be a lot less than rent, too. coops having their own weird quirks and flavor is part of their charm. We honestly rarely had trouble finding loans, and we were able to pull down grants from time to time too bc theres lots of love for coops doing affordable housing.
@tillshadeisgone It does feel overwhelming, totally normal. Do go see a nonprofit lawyer and NASCO. once you get rolling with a good group it gets fun sooner than u think :)
I just sort of assumed nobody actually pays those absurd SaaS costs except for like big rich companies but I keep hearing of examples of normal groups that do too. The sheer clown car comedy of paying $8/user/month for a WIKI and $8/user/month for a CHATROOM and $12/user/month for DOCUMENTS and... I mean u end up paying half ur funds on interfaces to like 1MB of XML
I think it would be sick as fuck to have git for music production DAWs so musicians could release a bunch of histories of a track instead of just one. I want to hear it before that one thing clicks that really made the music work, little scraps of it coming together. And then i got to thinking about musicians being able to keep tinkering with music after its release, and you could still go back to an old version, but they could keep poking at it and riffing on it.
Heads up #Bandcamp got sold again. Back that shit up and let the new owners know that directly paying artists and DRM free music are literally the sole reasons for it to exist and the sole sources of "brand value" Cc @cryptix https://social.coop/@cryptix/111147082085008672
@jalefkowit one of the private trackers i'm on mostly operates out of movie packs rather than individual movies and this one is in "mindfuck part four" so i think i'll give it a shot lmao
"Torrents.csv is a collaborative git repository of torrents, consisting of a single, searchable torrents.csv file. Its initially populated with a January 2017 backup of the pirate bay, and new torrents are periodically added from various torrents sites. It comes with a self-hostable webserver, a command line search, and a folder scanner to add torrents."
@aeva damn girl are you an open source project? because every issue we have can't be fixed since the guy who caused it left without warning 10 years ago
it is (was? does the use go away?) an extremely useful concept to make sense of what happens with corporate information platforms. it remains a very funny word, but I now see it completely robbed of its critique of informational capital. the latest thing going around equates a number of platforms at various stages of enshittification, landing on a "just use them for fun," which basically gets the concept backwards.
I am not a linguistic prescriptivist, I am an anti-capitalist, and seeing such a useful concept used to soften people towards the next vector of enshittification gives me another sign we didn't learn from this round.
i feel like the Hollywood strikes are giving me renewed desire to teach the youth to torrent. the streaming platforms are bad for everybody, we need the same kind of pressure on the IP holders as we had a decade ago, and this time we don't give it up for convenience, but for mediums with fair revenue splits
it sort of rocks that a bunch of people who got sick of abuse on bluesky made their own calckey instance with federation turned off. I literally love seeing people taking control of their digital world like that.
hello fedi, i am building/maintaining my first actual rack server and would love any guides or information sources y'all have ❤️.
I have always just used SBCs or individual desktop-like machines, or rented VPSes to self-host, but now I gotta set up bigg storage and web services split across a few machines, as well as set up a build server for CI and a virtual network for testing some p2p stuff as I write it.
Will take any advice, links, etc. you have to offer! boosts appreciated ❤️
From a preliminary ~12h sample of #bluesky / #atprotocol , a small number of accounts receive most interactions. This is an obvious byproduct of the way the default algorithmic feed prioritizes posts.
- 5% of accounts received 72% of likes, 1% of accounts received 41% - The top 5% of accounts make 48% of posts - 37% of accounts receive no interaction - The median account received 1 like.
Just a quick, incomplete look, but ya looks like an engagement farm
rawdog meatspace cooperator eating digital vegetal. systems/neuro & digital infrastructure for information liberation by day, p2p and broken shit by night and also by day. lookin 2 eat the rich n abolish intellectual property.This is my personal account, for more science/academic oriented things i use https://neuromatch.social/@jonnyplease have bio or introduction post or otherwise be recognizable to me when requesting :)#noindex