Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)

That's a harrowing thought!

@bonfire @neilk @yunohost @coopcloud oh rats. Is there a plan for improving YH support? That's where my family infra is.

@bonfire @michael @neilk @yunohost @box464 that is amazing! I love that frame of "caregiver control"

@neilk hehe actually right after posting that I provisioned a @bonfire instance on @yunohost :)

Debug this idea for me: A permissioned Mastodon server for kids and parents in a community.

Goals:
- Share plans for activities without parents having to text each other all the time
- Be silly
- Learn healthy social media norms under supervision

Policies:
- All messages (including direct) are auditable by parent admins
- Collaboratively authored code of conduct

Yep. I'm grateful my local paywalled private-equity paper has a fulltext feed

@hrbrmstr NO

I wonder how many local news publishers have no idea that their websites have an RSS feed.

It's weird how much my writing practice has started to be what happens while waiting for AI to write code. It is a new species of multitasking. And no multitasking is good, to be clear.

@light I can appreciate that as an edge case, but money systems have other responsibilities that affect far more people. I support censorship-resistant tools, but I think it is a mistake to view that as the primary thing to design for.

Not that Bitcoin itself is especially great for privacy anyway, which troubles its ability to be truly censorship resistant.

I tend to think PoS-style systems can be designed with goals like that in mind, or with other kinds of proof designs based on other kinds of contributions.

In lieu of the perfect, I'll take diversity of systems.

Censorship resistance is one value among others, but I don't see it as paramount. Not censoring the tax-evading transactions of billionaires is not more important, in my view, than having an economy that improves everyone's ability to meet basic needs.

I hope for money systems that serve a balance of the common good and individual rights.

@light I can speak for the bylaws, which I worked most on. We developed and passed it through discussions on Loomio. Any member can propose a change. It doesn't happen much, but it does happen.

@light these docs are a good starting point: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Community_Working_Group

Vibe coding has come a long way since my first experiment, a Monopoly rule-changing calculator https://medlab.host/monopoly/

And on mining, yeah, I've read gobs on it. If there were not a cleaner way to get meaningful social benefits, I'm open to it. But I don't think the social benefits are clear enough (except in theory) to justify the consumption in the context of a climate crisis. And there are ways of achieving similar goals without that consumption.

Issuance of the dollar is influenced by the inflation and unemployment rates. Digital money can be even more creatively tied to social outcomes. But because of the ideologies of the people who built most crypto, it is the opposite.

@_elena Thank you for this! I'm in the process of setting up a cloud for my family with @yunohost!

@mayfirst is hiring a Technical Support Advocate!

https://outreach.mayfirst.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=1548

@light I don't think so. You can't really gain power over a subsidiary that way. And Zuckerberg had controlling voting rights over Meta.