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· Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 16:14:30

We need to accelerate work on a few things at once:

  • Find ways to leverage and improve the current prototypes for mutual aid, organizing, and counter propaganda, hate, and information overload

  • Help people move from corporate social networks - without losing their support networks, ties to communities, and connections with friends and family.

  • Build whatever comes next. Structurally, and in terms of applications, what will decentralized social networks, designed from the margins using design justice principles look like?

privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-

Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 16:18:06

Easier said then done, but the opportunity is there. As Afsaneh Rigot says in Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive?

"The details of how highly marginalized communities are criminalized are the key to how we can build robust and even scalable tech that is not oppressive. This is how Design From the Margins truly works....

The experience of the most criminalized in the US and globally shows how power really works. This knowledge, the workarounds, can also be translated into stealthy tech design, build, and engineering choices that help navigate systems."

Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 16:21:32

How to make progress? Here's some of the questions I have ... very interested in hearing people's thoughts! If you'd prefer to respond anonymously, here's a CryptPad form (it takes a few seconds to load, so don't panic).

  • What examples have you seen of successfully leveraging social networks for organizing and mutual aid? (It's fine to include examples from centralized commercial social networks as well as alternative and/or decentralized social networks)

  • How could social networks better support organizing and mutual aid?

  • What do you see as the most promising and/or urgent short-term opportunities?

And if you'd like to get involved, you can leave your contact info in the form and we'll follow up with you once there are some concrete next steps in place. (Although you're also welcome to fill out the form anonymously!)

Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 16:24:55

Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere is a deep dive on the landscape today, based on multiple discussions with US-based organizers.

There's certainly room for progress!

Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 18:12:03

@thenexusofprivacy

stopped reading at "Us-based", sry

Föderation EN Mi 12.03.2025 18:15:40

@sl007 fair enough, if there are people working on similar projects elsewhere I'm certainly interested in connecting with them!