CoSocial Community Cooperative
Cooperative non-profit social media for Canadians.
There will be brief downtime (<30 seconds) while the server is upgraded to Mastodon 4.1.8 at:
3:10 PM ADT | 2:10 PM EDT | 12:10 PM CST | 11:10 PM PDT
Follow this page for updates.
Update 2023-09-19 2:12 PM EDT: Maintenance has concluded. Thank-you for your patience!
The board and core team leads meet most Tuesday evenings to move the co-op forward. Agenda items and team notes are gathered ahead of time and discussed live. We’re going to start publishing some basic updates around what we’re talking about and working on.
With talk of Meta joining, there are voices proposing to de-federate (a technical process with Mastodon to block connections for an entire server)
At this stage of the co-op, our approach is to solicit feedback from membership on whether we should de-federate, and then the board will vote next Tuesday. A server announcement has been posted, and we are encouraging members to provide feedback to the board by using the #CoSocialMeta tag.
Test Lemmy (Reddit clone) instance up at news.cosocial.ca. Early adopter members welcome to experiment, but ⚠️⚠️ currently undocumented and filled with bugs ⚠️⚠️. Follow #NewsCoSocial for updates, as well as the @cosocial@news.cosocial.ca group.
Board previously approved a part-time sysadmin role, our first paid position. This will be a junior role, with only a few hours per month. First draft of a job description, to be posted next week.
First office hours / open working session hosted by Alka and Dawn. Tuesdays @ 4pm PST / 6pm CST / 7pm EST, watch for more posts and details.
Hosting some regular chat sessions on different topics. On deck: Tim Bray, next Wednesday June 28th, with the latest in hot fediverse topics, aka #HotFedi
Will be refreshing the info site here in the coming weeks. More content — and writers! — needed. Discussion on sharing basic info about the fediverse, both for new / prospective members, as well as for Canadian media who might be interested due to growing activity in the space such as Meta, Reddit, etc.
Want to help with comms, news, and documentation? Email comms@cosocial.ca
We have a bank account at VanCity! We’re still taking payments through OpenCollective, which has worked very well for us. Perhaps more important, we have cash on hand – member subscription fees, that’s all we collect – for many months of operations.
To-do: Review of OpenCollective setups, review of projected finances, updates from TechOps on hosting fees, and first paid role.
To schedule: a live review / tour of our test Lemmy instance. Moderation tools are very basic, manual block list.