social.coop

The [[Mastodon]] instance that I use. Run co-operatively, kind of has a focus on coop related stuff.

Socialcoop

[[pull]] [[social coop]]

[[2024-10-28 18:32:58+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- We’re about to upgrade social.coop to Mastodon 4.3 (thanks @dphiffer and @3wordchant); you can expect some (hopefully short) downtime. We’ll ping this thread once this is done.
  #Socialcoop

[[2022-11-26 20:18:43+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109411953791876248:
- One of the [[Mastodon forks]] that #SocialCoop could test in our second (experimental) instance.
  —-
  RT @flancian
  RT @darius
  Wow, this is very interesting. Smalltown is a new fork of Mastodon specifically for civic communities looking to host their own social media. It is being developed at Ethan Zuckerman’s lab at UMass Amherst.
  https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/09/28/welcome-to-smalltown/
  (It’s (1/2)
  https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1577780860664815627
[[2022-12-02 20:12:23+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109445902731100151:
- The proposal for granting the #SocialCoop [[Tech Working Group]] a discretionary budget, https://www.loomio.com/p/PrfjuJAv, passed with no votes against and several interesting discussion threads. Thank you all for participating!
[[2022-12-04 14:10:33+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109455804537844703:
- #SocialCoop can we just define the [[Ops Team]] for a given [[Working Group]] as ‘whoever shows up to the default weekly meetings’?
[[2023-01-28 23:01:58+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109769321269177658:
- I will now process registrations and do moderation for #SocialCoop, work in the [[Social Commons]] :)
[[2023-12-13 23:23:20+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop I am constantly low key afraid I’ve forgotten I’m oncall for the CWG, so I’ll now go and update the moderation rotation sticky in the instance and discover if I really did miss some days :)
[[2023-12-27 15:16:24+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Now reviewing [[registrations]] and [[signups]] for #SocialCoop :)
[[2023-12-30 17:16:59+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop inline poll: should SocialCoop be one of the signatories of the [[Fedipact]] effort to *preemptively defederate* with Threads.net?
  https://www.loomio.com/d/AZcJK6y2 is an ongoing Loomio discussion about this but I wanted to see some in-instance discussion ideally.
[[2024-01-06 20:41:55+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop thank you for the recent public conversations on the topics of [[Threads Federation]] and [[Authorized Fetch]].
[[2024-02-01 20:11:48+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Now looking into a [[Mastodon upgrade]] :)
  #WIP #SocialCoop
[[2024-02-15 17:28:58+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop is discussing the [[bluesky bridge]] over here, if you are interested: https://www.loomio.com/d/W6tL5cvp/the-bluesky-bridge
[[2024-03-11 18:35:20+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- I will now do moderation and registrations for #SocialCoop, a pleasure to work in the [[Commons]]!
[[2024-04-02 22:44:14+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- The Tech Working Group [[Open House]] is coming up on Saturday 13 April @ 1600-1800 UTC:
  https://www.loomio.com/d/oPHKpefm/tech-working-group-open-house-saturday-13-april-1600-1800
  Join us if you are interested in what we do, have questions or feedback about our tech stack and services, or are just curious!
  #SocialCoop
[[2024-04-13 15:55:44+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- The #SocialCoop Tech Working Group’s [[Open House]] is starting in five minutes! Hope you can join :)
  We’ll meet at https://meet.evolix.org/twg
  Context: https://social.coop/@flancian/112204045000337067
[[2024-06-01 18:28:15+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop we updated Mastodon from 4.2.7 -> 4.2.9 for security updates :)
[[2024-07-06 10:42:09+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Hi all! the instance will be down, presumably shortly, for the 4.2.9 -> 4.2.10 security-sensitive upgrade.
  #SocialCoop
[[2024-08-10 19:55:38+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop I just made a simple change to the instance to make Mastodon multi-column mode “make sense” in https://social.coop, meaning use up all space instead of having weirdly narrow columns.
  See before/after if interested, let me know if you have any issues! You can try it by enabling multi-column mode in your preferences.
  h/t testman42@github.com for the workaround: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8632#issuecomment-850335649
[[2024-09-03 14:31:18+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop great job on the instance announcements! 7/7 were interesting :) thank you to the [[CWG]] team which keeps these running and does so much other work for the community!
[[2024-09-04 13:18:16+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop I started a poll on whether to remove or keep the limit for [[bridgy fed]]: https://www.loomio.com/d/W6tL5cvp/the-bluesky-bridge/35
  PTAL and vote/comment :)
[[2024-09-21 17:34:02+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Thank you #SocialCoop, @SocialCoop for the discussion and associated democratic decision on the topic of [[Bluesky]] bridge-based federation!
  https://www.loomio.com/d/W6tL5cvp/the-bluesky-bridge/68
  I have lifted the limits on snarfed.org brid.gy.
  @snarfed.org FYI
[[2024-11-03 23:41:00+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Now doing a round of checking moderation and new registrations for #SocialCoop.
[[2024-11-20 17:15:32+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- A #Fediverse free text #poll for those interested:
  Which instances do you see as “good stewards” of the Fediverse?
  Or: which instance admins do you particularly trust?
  Interested in #SocialCoop feedback in particular, but open to everyone.
[[2024-11-20 23:33:02+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- I reviewed #SocialCoop moderation cases and registrations; two each, quite light work :) And as usual, it’s exciting to see interesting people and projects joining us!
[[2024-11-22 23:12:02+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop will be down shortly as we perform some quick maintenance.
[[2024-11-25 19:45:17+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- As previously announced #SocialCoop will now go down (hopefully shortly!) for maintenance.
  We expect to be back up within a few minutes; if we aren’t, please feel free to check for updates in the Matrix open room: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Matrix :)
[[2024-12-14 03:53:44+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- I added some new emoji to #SocialCoop, e.g.:
  :blobcat: :blobcatrainbow:
  Let us know if you want any others you see around the Fediverse!
[[2024-12-14 03:58:43+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- I added some custom emojis to #SocialCoop, like:
  :blobcat:
  :blobcatrainbow:
  Let us know if you’d like to add any others you see around the Fediverse!
[[2025-09-09 17:53:26+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop we’ll be doing some quick maintenance in the server hosting the wiki and single-sign-on; we hope to be back up within a few minutes.
[[2025-09-09 17:56:39+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #SocialCoop we will soon try upgrading the instance to Mastodon 4.4.3; we should be back up within a few minutes.

[[2022-11-19 20:49:28+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109372438510929309:
- Today we made some progress on setting up a new (secondary) server for #socialcoop, and I started learning [[ansible]]: https://git.coop/social.coop/tech/operations/-/issues/56
  Pretty fun! I’m glad I was finally able to make some time.
[[2022-11-23 10:58:00+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109392761981132373:
- #socialcoop wdyt about the update to Mastodon v4 overall?
  My take: some people have noticed unexpected UI changes (I myself don’t like the new ‘create account’ flow too much for example), but overall it seems like an improvement and I’m happy we’re now finally up to date and tracking upstream.
[[2022-11-23 21:52:40+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109395336242163087:
- Trying out [[bonfire]] while I go through #socialcoop registrations (I’m oncall for the community working group this week) :)
[[2022-11-26 13:33:00+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109410358397483974:
- #socialcoop *could* be in https://joinmastodon.org/servers if we want to. I think we would need to do two things:
  1. Sign the [[mastodon covenant]], being https://joinmastodon.org/covenant, which looks reasonable.
  2. Relax registrations to ‘invite only’, as discussed earlier in https://www.loomio.com/d/zoWFc7mR/relax-instance-registrations-to-approval-required-for-sign-up-from-current-nobody-can-sign-up-.
  What do you think?
[[2022-11-26 14:39:15+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109410618960252224:
- Testing #socialcoop RSS feed :)
  If you want to follow this hashtag from an RSS reader, add this feed: https://social.coop/tags/socialcoop.rss
[[2022-11-26 23:59:33+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109412822154930684:
- (I saw some instance statistics the other day and I’m an outlier post count wise in #socialcoop even though I only joined in August 2020.)
[[2022-12-08 21:08:45+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109480098265872622:
- What’s #socialcoop and the wider [[democratic fediverse]] been up to?
[[2022-12-26 00:18:53+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109577105114470721:
- I’m oncall this week for the #socialcoop [[community working group]] starting on 2022-12-26, please let me know if you need anything!
  By default I plan to review registrations and the moderation queue daily.
[[2022-12-27 20:24:09+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109587506727879102:
- Now reviewing #socialcoop registrations :D
[[2023-01-24 00:03:29+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109741251573508799:
- #socialcoop I’ll be oncall for the [[Community Working Group]] and thus handling registrations and moderation issues this week. Please let me know if you need anything!
[[2023-01-30 19:12:59+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109779745442704992:
- Hi #socialcoop!
  As announced last week, the [[Tech Working Group]] is about to bring down the instance for maintenance for a few hours.
  We will do a restore exercise in a new server, and might migrate to that new hardware tonight. If we don’t get that far, we will learn something from the process which will inform future practices :)
[[2023-01-30 21:01:43+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109780173048180762:
- Testing #socialcoop server move :)
[[2023-02-13 19:46:06+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109859148012466873:
- #socialcoop the instance will undergo micro-maintenance for a scheduled update. Wish us luck ;)
[[2024-01-01 23:40:42+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- @3wordchant @ntnsndr in general I just want to try to think first, as a community, of the large number of *people* who are in [[threads]] because that’s where they friends are, for example — and how to help them onboard to the #Fediverse as well as we can!
  I would rather their first contact is with friendly open people and groups like those at #socialcoop
[[2024-02-01 23:00:56+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- #socialcoop updating the instance, it might be unavailable for a minute :)
[[2024-03-01 15:59:52+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Announcement: #socialcoop member Nathan Schneider has a book that recently went open access!
  [[Governable Spaces]]: Democratic Design for Online Life
  https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181/
[[2024-03-03 17:19:17+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- I found this article interesting
  [[who hosts the fediverse instances]]: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
  Publicly available information for our own instance, #socialcoop, follow in this thread :)
[[2024-03-05 21:03:29+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Now doing #moderation for #socialcoop :)
[[2024-10-21 17:59:08+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
- Hi all! We might upgrade to Mastodon 4.3 tonight, in which case we’ll have some short downtime. We’ll post here after the fact.
  #socialcoop

[[2022-11-26 20:12:15+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596597724698365953

One of the [[Mastodon forks]] that #SocialCoop could test in our second (experimental) instance. https://t.co/0ZJQGEvfAP

[[2022-12-02 20:18:12+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1598773547345772545

The proposal for granting the #SocialCoop [[Tech Working Group]] a discretionary budget, https://t.co/dHZYXp42eQ, passed with no votes against and several interesting discussion threads. Thank you all for participating!

[[2022-12-04 14:21:15+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1599408495618662400

#SocialCoop can we just define the [[Ops Team]] for a given [[Working Group]] as ‘whoever shows up to the default weekly meetings’?

[[2022-11-17 01:07:14+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1593048079086804995

#socialcoop maintenance is coming! We’ll start upgrading the Mastodon instance next Monday. I’ll publish an announcement soon.

[[2022-11-19 20:54:25+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1594071619743498245

Today we made some progress on setting up a new (secondary) server for #socialcoop, and I started learning [[ansible]]: https://t.co/ABRHE0TQMZ

Pretty fun! I’m glad I was finally able to make some time.

[[2022-11-23 11:00:03+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1595371595974946817

#socialcoop wdyt about the update to Mastodon v4 overall?

My take: some people have noticed unexpected UI changes (I myself don’t like the new ‘create account’ flow too much for example), but overall it seems like an improvement and I’m happy we’re now finally up to date (1/2)

[[2022-11-23 12:15:27+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1595390568464523264

RT @eloquence@social.coop protean Y’all rock! Thanks for the hard work. Now I can finally follow the #socialcoop hashtag :-) https://t.co/SHeqBDssm4

[[2022-11-23 22:00:43+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1595537858273607683

Trying out [[bonfire]] while I go through #socialcoop registrations (I’m oncall for the community working group this week) :) https://t.co/QfOEVM31nh

[[2022-11-26 13:10:12+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596491510739894272

RT @neil@social.coop Enjoying the ramping up of #governance discussion that’s been happening in #socialcoop lately.

Reminded of some ideas I really liked from Alison Powell’s book [[Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities]]:

"In contrast to the smooth (1/2)

[[2022-11-26 13:34:51+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596497714816040960

#socialcoop could be in https://t.co/dzhyz2GwbV if we want to. I think we would need to do two things:

Sign the [[mastodon covenant]], being https://t.co/5S96fnAw7P, which looks reasonable.
Relax registrations to ‘invite only’, as discussed earlier in (1/2)

[[2022-11-26 14:52:18+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596517205075951616

Testing #socialcoop RSS feed :)

If you want to follow this hashtag from an RSS reader, add this feed: https://t.co/SOss1eOT4J

[[2022-11-27 00:05:29+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1596656418731368448

(I saw some instance statistics the other day and I’m an outlier post count wise in #socialcoop even though I only joined in August 2020.)

[[2022-11-28 20:54:52+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1597333226254737410

RT @eb@social.coop #socialcoop logo in place of mastadon’s. Thoughts?

cc flancian

btw: should the https://t.co/lG1n70SJ9T wg’s have Guppe groups? https://t.co/Q44wfWdvxz https://t.co/raFRssSg9o

[[2022-12-08 21:11:43+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1600961342852177935

What’s #socialcoop and the wider [[democratic fediverse]] been up to?

[[2022-12-26 00:27:43+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1607171261930553344

I’m oncall this week for the #socialcoop [[community working group]] starting on 2022-12-26, please let me know if you need anything!

By default I plan to review registrations and the moderation queue daily.

[[2022-12-27 20:49:47+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1607841194586918913

Now reviewing #socialcoop registrations :D