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Wed 9 Oct 2024 2:02PM

Organizing circle meeting: 2024-10-09

F Flancian Public Seen by 5

We met on 2024-10-09 at 13 UTC for one hour. Attendance was low, likely because we didn't create a thread here in advance (unless I just haven't found it yet) :) So we did a quick meeting with an ad-hoc agenda (find notes below).

We probably want to establish a process to make sure a thread is created in advance of every meeting, or have a default thread to post announcements for upcoming meetings if that proves too burdensome (but it probably shouldn't be).

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Flancian Wed 9 Oct 2024 2:02PM

Notes follow :)

  • Attending: edumerco, matt, flancian

  • Check ins

    • matt: on commoning and farming

      • flancian: pixelfed, https://pixelfed.org/, for the visual sharing aspect

      • on building and consolidating before promoting

    • flancian: having lost a battle with Moloch, but living to fight another day ;) feeling more energized.

      • edumerco: note some battles are not worth fightining

    • edumerco: tired but OK, with cold sores. March to protect the universities in Argentina was a success.

  • Let's follow an ad hoc meeting structure due to low attendance?

    • Aye

  • Working Groups

    • tech

      • flancian:

        • dphiffer is now fully onboarded to the group

        • session with OC, notes are here [link]

        • alpha.social.coop: iterating over the PR

        • preparation for spam waves

          • script?

          • mailgun

            • each notification generates multiple emails

            • could spam accounts that are reported get automatically limited?

    • community

      • invoicing

      • coordination

      • spam response

        • instances with open registration and not too good moderation seem to have been at the core of the issue again

          • Should we treat instances with open registrations differentially?

          • Edumerco: this is discussed in the fediversalist papers

        • Sam and Emi jumped on the reports

        • Three issues that came up

          • A report generates a notification email and blew through our mailgun quota

            • -> we should fix this

          • No way to do a mass action in reports

            • -> this is what Mastodon should fix

          • Sam created a bot or tool to detect spamming accounts quickly

            • We could auto-limit spam reports from social.coop, and then review limits

  • Ekumen: best effort update

    • https://anagora.org/ekumen has some notes :) 

    • https://codeberg.org/Ekumen is the Codeberg 'organization' containing several (for now empty) repositories

    • A kind of confederation within the larger "default Fediverse"

    • Web of trust based on a streamlined set of common values

    • The group will develop tools and foster coordination

    • Now seeding this group

    • Matt: first reaction is that the focus on the positive side of what we want, how we want to relate to each other seems very important

      • During the development of the SC CoC we also started focusing on what we want to prevent/what we want to push back against (like e.g. with the anti-pacts) and then moved on to focusing on what we actually want

      • On a very basic level, just setting up channels to exchange information with like-minded instances seems very important.

        • A block feed could be the MVP