NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

the first line goes in Cohost embeds

🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

mastodon

email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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thinking about how my ideal for mostly-concensus-based, flexible group/community/org would basically be frontloading investing a lot of effort into onboarding people (and automating that effectively) into:

  • code of conduct style stuff
  • some account platform that lets them have a single login for related applications

  • a real time chat platform that people treat as ephemeral and anything relevant/important/useful gets copied elsewhere
    • discord/slack tier
    • ideally automate this, tags or emoji
    • you're going for least friction for a non-technical user.
    • have a way for others to tag it as important not just the author
    • onboard messaging functions, markdown, quirks
  • a forum/message board system
    • whatever you're doing it's important members can do simple things with each other to reduce the labor-load of existing and free that up for pouring some back into the system
      • "need/want" board
      • "buy/sell/trade/free" within limits
      • "jobs"
      • "help wanted (community tasks)"
      • topical categories
      • some sort of optional digest mode where you get daily/weekly important threads as a bulk message
  • a messaging platform such as a local mastodon island for which to talk idly to the rest of the members
  • ideally automate the tagging important things and writing them down across all of these

even for "activist" orgs.

(if local you should also invest in similar offline things, of course. but the important things meant to not be fleeting still need to be written down)

because you can't have consensus without people actually being able to talk to each other, be heard, and be informed on largely equal footing. and right now that's impossible in most places because they don't consider the differential of free time, where in the day that free time is, what gives you less time, etc

but people gotta talk, in ways they know they'll be heard, and they gotta have completely irrelivant side discussions in topical channels and be messy. or factions form, and once factions form concensus becomes impossible because each event is seen as winning or losing, because unknowingly it became about power.

this is how movement stuff works now imo. maybe it always has. "community" in that wonderful, nebulous, impossible to parse sense needs to be fostered first, or you can't have trust or know where people are at, or know relative needs

for anything where you need heavy collaboration and trust, from activism to critical open source infrastructure


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