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@3wordchant@social.coop yes, used it briefly while SSO was functional
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Andrew Escobar (Andres)
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mastodon 4.5.18accredited credit union director (ACCUD) · board member at Cooperative Management Education Coop (CMEC) · social.coop: finance & legal
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Sociocracy Conference 2026
Thursday, May 7
https://sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-conference-2026
I’ll be joining for Slot 2:
• Sociocracy for Collective Impact
• Sociocracy meets Strategy
• When It’s Good To Break the Rules — with @arod@social.coop
a small accomplishment on our long-term todo list:
[✓] transfer social.coop to a cooperative domain registrar
Social.coop members have backed Bonfire Networks with a €430 / $500 community contribution.
Bonfire is now 11% away from its €30K crowdfunding goal: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
Final day for Social.coop Members to submit their votes:
@andrewe@social.coop
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@sam it would be a lot of work, but it seems like it would be a worthwhile endeavour. how would you structure it? incorporate as a not-for-profit, a member cooperative, or a worker cooperative?
Social.coop 2025 Financial Update:
– contributions remained steady in 2025 but did not meet projection
- budgeted surplus: 677 GBP
- actual shortfall: –632 GBP
https://www.loomio.com/d/2IiRlu9Y/budget-2025-budget-vs-actual
I had a question about user preferences and was surprised to see @ntnsndr@social.coop at @SocialCoop@social.coop featured in Mastodon’s documentation! https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/preferences/
Social.coop Members can now vote for our 2025 Community Contributions: donations to organizations and projects that support @SocialCoop@social.coop and a healthy, growing, and resilient fediverse.
What does co-operative identity mean today?
Co‑operative Identity and Branding
May 19–21: online symposium
http://managementstudies.coop/symposium
@emi@social.coop is moderating a session on “sustainability reporting” for measuring and communicating co-operative identity.
International Symposium on Co-operative Identity and Energizing the Co-operative Brand
May 19–21, online
What does co-operative identity mean today? Three days on brand, culture, and what it means to be a co-op.
https://managementstudies.coop/researchandpublications/symposia/co-operative-identity-and-branding.html
Cooperative Digital Infrastructure & Data Centers
April 24, 10:00 AM Eastern
The internet runs on data centers — who should own them? A co-operative lens on digital infrastructure, energy, and sovereignty.
https://platform.coop/blog/making-sense-of-ai-april24/
The Commons & Open Cooperativism
April 17, 10:00 AM Eastern
What would it mean to build AI infrastructure as a commons? Thinkers at the intersection of co-operativism and open systems.
https://platform.coop/blog/making-sense-of-ai-april17/
AI for Cooperatives? Risks, Dependencies, and Ethical Limits
AI carries real risks for co-ops — dependence, ethics, limits. What should co-operators actually know?
https://managementstudies.coop/specialtopicswebinars/ [archive]
Given their thorough vetting process to release and publish during innovation weeks, I am astonished Cloudflare posted this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
Agents can write code and docs. You ensure code is functional and secure. You edit the readme. You write the blog post. You own the output.
This will diminish developer trust in Cloudflare Workers (which is outstanding and my platform of choice).
Zuckerberg and Meta board of directors giving new meaning to “gross profit”: https://time.com/7336204/meta-lawsuit-files-child-safety/
A new addition to my daily affirmations:
“You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you.” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/13/joy-joy-feelings
