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Matt noyes: /* TODOs for this wiki */

2026-01-24T22:02:17Z

TODOs for this wiki

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	* Document setup steps in the wiki proper, currently these are at https://anagora.org/wiki-migration		* Document setup steps in the wiki proper, currently these are at https://anagora.org/wiki-migration
	* Test coop-cloud-based backups/restores		* Test coop-cloud-based backups/restores
			* Translate key documents into [languages]

Ansate: /* Working groups */ working group descriptions

2025-12-06T21:44:49Z

Working groups: working group descriptions

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	== Working groups ==		== Working groups ==

	* [[Organizing Circle]] (OC)		* [[Organizing Circle]] (OC)
			** coordinates efforts between the working groups and catches anything that does not cleanly fall into work group domains.
	* [[Community Working Group]] (CWG)		* [[Community Working Group]] (CWG)
			** moderates our Mastodon instance, coordinates with other instances, and looks for ways to build intra-social.coop community. This group generally maintains a budget for moderator stipends.
	* [[Tech Working Group]] (TWG)		* [[Tech Working Group]] (TWG)
			** maintains our instances and generally tends our tech stack. This group generally maintains a budget for tech services.
	* [[Legal Working Group]] (LWG)		* [[Legal Working Group]] (LWG)
			** mitigates legal risk to our volunteers and organization. This group will maintain a budget for legal and professional consultations.
	* [[Finance Working Group]] (FWG)		* [[Finance Working Group]] (FWG)
			** Finance Working Group issues reimbursements to cover expenses as well as develops annual spending and budgeting reports.

	== Common questions ==		== Common questions ==

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	We are also a community. Our values include: honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Members contribute funds and volunteer labor to set our community policies, steward our data, and manage our shared technologies. As well as maintaining the current services, members can be part of experiments with new social media platforms and tools such as Bonfire.		We are also a community. Our values include: honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Members contribute funds and volunteer labor to set our community policies, steward our data, and manage our shared technologies. As well as maintaining the current services, members can be part of experiments with new social media platforms and tools such as Bonfire.

	While many of our members are co-ops or associated with co-ops, anyone who is interested in being part of this cooperatively run community and willing to adhere to our [[Code of Conduct]] is welcome to join: [https://Join.social.coop join.social.coop].		While many of our members are co-ops or associated with co-ops, anyone who is interested in being part of this cooperatively run community and willing to adhere to our [[Code of conduct\|Code of Conduct]] is welcome to join: [https://Join.social.coop join.social.coop].

	[[Social.coop]] was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."		[[Social.coop]] was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."

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	~~'''~~[https://social.coop~~/about/more~~ Social.coop]~~'''~~ is a ~~cooperative corner~~ of the ~~[[wikipedia:Fediverse\|Fediverse]]~~.		[https://social.coop Social.coop] is cooperatively-run, long-running, stable provider of social media. We primarily provide a member-moderated Mastodon server for microblogging on the Fediverse, but we a have a variety of additional services for members and tools for coordinating within the coop.

	We ~~primarily operate~~ a ~~[[wikipedia~~:~~Mastodon_(software)\|Mastodon]] server~~. ~~Our members fund our operations~~ and ~~decide how~~ to set our community policies, steward our data, and manage our shared technologies. ~~Members also provide~~ the ~~labor to run Social.coop at all levels~~.		We are also a community. Our values include: honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Members contribute funds and volunteer labor to set our community policies, steward our data, and manage our shared technologies. As well as maintaining the current services, members can be part of experiments with new social media platforms and tools such as Bonfire.

	~~We have a~~ [[Code of ~~conduct~~]].		While many of our members are co-ops or associated with co-ops, anyone who is interested in being part of this cooperatively run community and willing to adhere to our [[Code of Conduct]] is welcome to join: [https://Join.social.coop join.social.coop].

	~~If you are interested in joining Social.coop, please refer~~ to ~~our '''~~[https://join.social.coop~~/registration-form.html registration form~~]~~'''~~.

	[[Social.coop]] was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."		[[Social.coop]] was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."

Andrewe: /* Working groups */

2025-08-27T16:49:20Z

Working groups

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	== Working groups ==		== Working groups ==

	* [[Organizing Circle~~\|Organizing circle~~]]		* [[Organizing Circle]] (OC)
	* [[Community Working Group~~\|Community working group~~]] (CWG)		* [[Community Working Group]] (CWG)
	* [[Tech Working Group]] (TWG)		* [[Tech Working Group]] (TWG)
	* [[Legal Working Group]] (LWG)		* [[Legal Working Group]] (LWG)

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	* [[Organizing Circle\|Organizing circle]]		* [[Organizing Circle\|Organizing circle]]
	* Community working group (CWG)		* [[Community Working Group\|Community working group]] (CWG)
	* Tech ~~working group~~ (TWG)		* [[Tech Working Group]] (TWG)
	* Legal ~~working group~~ (LWG)		* [[Legal Working Group]] (LWG)
	* Finance ~~working group~~ (FWG)		* [[Finance Working Group]] (FWG)

	== Common questions ==		== Common questions ==

Edumerco: Added list of working groups.

2025-01-16T16:42:40Z

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	*[[Tutorials]] - Guides for how to do things on Social.coop		*[[Tutorials]] - Guides for how to do things on Social.coop
	*[[Meta]] - Wiki pages about the wiki!		*[[Meta]] - Wiki pages about the wiki!

			== Working groups ==

			* [[Organizing Circle\|Organizing circle]]
			* Community working group (CWG)
			* Tech working group (TWG)
			* Legal working group (LWG)
			* Finance working group (FWG)

	== Common questions ==		== Common questions ==

Ansate: /* Common questions */

2024-11-26T22:52:24Z

Common questions

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	Great question! [[When and how to use Threads, Polls, and Proposals]]		Great question! [[When and how to use Threads, Polls, and Proposals]]

	3. Where does all the money go?		3. Where does all the money go?

	Our [https://www.loomio.com/d/xqw7FtUT/toward-an-annual-budget budget] was outlined and discussed in [[Loomio]]. As of writing, less than a 1/3 of funds go to stipends for various [[Operations]] groups, a little less than that is contributed to allied cooperative and technology projects (determined by the [[Finance Working Group]] .) The rest is split between reserves and hosting the server, paying for [[Loomio]], [[Meet.coop]], and other [[Platforms]].		Our [https://www.loomio.com/d/xqw7FtUT/toward-an-annual-budget budget] was outlined and discussed in [[Loomio]]. As of writing, less than a 1/3 of funds go to stipends for various [[Operations]] groups, a little less than that is contributed to allied cooperative and technology projects (determined by the [[Finance Working Group]] .) The rest is split between reserves and hosting the server, paying for [[Loomio]], [[Meet.coop]], and other [[Platforms]].

Ansate: /* Common questions */

2024-11-26T22:51:50Z

Common questions

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	There are a number of working groups involved in the [[Operations]] of the coop - check them out at that link. We intend to rotate in members regularly to prevent burnout, so please reach out to any group you are interested in participating in.		There are a number of working groups involved in the [[Operations]] of the coop - check them out at that link. We intend to rotate in members regularly to prevent burnout, so please reach out to any group you are interested in participating in.

	2. Where does all the money go?		2. How do I ask a meta-question about the server or propose a change to Social.coop policy?

			Great question! [[When and how to use Threads, Polls, and Proposals]]

			3. Where does all the money go?

	Our [https://www.loomio.com/d/xqw7FtUT/toward-an-annual-budget budget] was outlined and discussed in [[Loomio]]. As of writing, less than a 1/3 of funds go to stipends for various [[Operations]] groups, a little less than that is contributed to allied cooperative and technology projects (determined by the [[Finance Working Group]] .) The rest is split between reserves and hosting the server, paying for [[Loomio]], [[Meet.coop]], and other [[Platforms]].		Our [https://www.loomio.com/d/xqw7FtUT/toward-an-annual-budget budget] was outlined and discussed in [[Loomio]]. As of writing, less than a 1/3 of funds go to stipends for various [[Operations]] groups, a little less than that is contributed to allied cooperative and technology projects (determined by the [[Finance Working Group]] .) The rest is split between reserves and hosting the server, paying for [[Loomio]], [[Meet.coop]], and other [[Platforms]].

	3. Is this instance based in the US or somewhere else?		4. Is this instance based in the US or somewhere else?

	Our [[Platforms]] page says our hosting is [[wikipedia:Hetzner\|Hetzner]], which appears to be based in Germany.		Our [[Platforms]] page says our hosting is [[wikipedia:Hetzner\|Hetzner]], which appears to be based in Germany.

	4. What's the Matrix chat thing and should I be on that?		5. What's the Matrix chat thing and should I be on that?

	[[Matrix]] is an open chat network, where we have a few rooms that you might be interested in. In particular, the Open Chatroom hosts a small amount of meta talk about the coop, and the tech chat is probably where to go if the server is down and you want to see what is happening.[[File:Organizational map of social.coop.png\|thumb\|alt=An organizational map of social.coop\|An organizational map of social.coop]]		[[Matrix]] is an open chat network, where we have a few rooms that you might be interested in. In particular, the Open Chatroom hosts a small amount of meta talk about the coop, and the tech chat is probably where to go if the server is down and you want to see what is happening.[[File:Organizational map of social.coop.png\|thumb\|alt=An organizational map of social.coop\|An organizational map of social.coop]]

Edsu: Added a link to the social.coop page.

2024-11-04T22:18:21Z

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	If you are interested in joining Social.coop, please refer to our '''[https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html registration form]'''.		If you are interested in joining Social.coop, please refer to our '''[https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html registration form]'''.

	Social.coop was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."		[[Social.coop]] was founded in 2017 in the wake of the [https://buytwitter.org/ BuyTwitter] campaign. Since then, we have worked toward the goal of placing ever more of our online social lives under good cooperative governance. To get a sense of how we operate, or to start your own fediverse cooperative, see our guide on "[[How to Make the Fediverse Your Own]]."

	New to the Fediverse? Check out the [[Social.coop guide to Mastodon]].		New to the Fediverse? Check out the [[Social.coop guide to Mastodon]].