So too, gender-based harassment has not only endured in the fediverse, it has been perpetuated by some of its most privileged participants, as observed in a recent controversy involving a stream of abuse perpetuated by a very visible megaserver admin. Who moderates the moderators?

Building a Free Fediverse comprises an opportunity to chart a course away from the predominating influence of amoral techbros who have no capacity for understanding these problems, and see the fedi primarily as an opportunity for financial investment. This piece reframes the "gatekeeping" smear aimed at FediPact advocates through a lens of envisioning the online community as a ZAD - a Zone To Defend.

https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110680030293653277

19/20

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #Horizontalism #ZAD

I'm contemplating writing a piece about the political importance of the #Fediverse. We talk about #democracy, #decentralisation, and #horizontalism in our societies, but it really is important that we embrace technology that reflects such aspirations as well.

Slovenia's Initiative for Citywide Assembly (Iniciativa mestni zbor – IMZ) celebrates 10 years of citizen assemblies.

#DirectDemocracy #Assemblies #Municipalism #Horizontalism #ParticipatoryDemocracy

https://geo.coop/articles/slovenias-imz-celebrates-10-years-citizens-assemblies

We had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Kiko at the Freethinker's Forum this weekend, thank you Kiko for having us on!

https://youtu.be/FsJRgrgVj_A

#sociocracy #horizontalism #democracy #politics #mutualaid #community #texas #peoplespartyoftexas #antiwar #abolition #defundthepolice

Both the rise of fascism (as a failure) and the rise of the fediverse (as a success?) are vindications of the anarchist idea and refutations of the liberal one.

During the Trump catastrophe, informal antifascism provided a potential solution to the Popper paradox. But liberals couldn't see it, and spent the period punching left ("Susan Sarandon"), often goaded on by fascists ("cancel culture"); and reifying americanism (Russiagate) and authoritarianism (fake crime wave/"refund the police"). Now the fascist threat is even more grave.

During the first wave of fascist hate speech, liberals called for regulation - state censorship - of capitalist social media. But with the federation, we can discern an actually effective approach to the moderation problem - decentralization and the community devolution of moderation powers.

In both cases, informality and horizontalism were the right answers. Is anyone listening to them?

#fediverse #fascism #horizontalism

Matt kept up his #CriticalNotes series with this on #horizontalism and #AutonomousSpaces #anarchism https://www.redblacknotes.com/2022/07/25/anarchists-and-neo-anarchists-horizontalism-and-autonomous-spaces/

#introduction Hello! I am a #sysadmin for #linux systems and interested in #privacy #federation and #horizontalism (in an organizational/political sense). With a sprinkle of #psychology and #philosophy thrown in.

I am an #OSR gamer and run one #OSRIC based game in meatspace and one #1e #PbP.

My actual system is base OSRIC with some "secret sauce" OSR bits thrown in. Rounding out with a sprinkle of #Dragonsfoot Footprints articles and my own houserules wiki.

Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 1 – Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolution-in-every-country-episode-1-syria-erasing-an-inconvenient-revolution/ #Arts_&_Culture #Global #aleppo #comic_series #comics #deir_alzour #douma_4 #horizontalism #latakia #lcc #leila_alshami #local_coordination_committees #local_councils #manbij #omar_aziz #razan_zaitouneh #Revolution #revolution_in_every_country #selforganizing #Syria #yassin_alhaj_saleh #yass

journal article: "Women’s roles in the ‘leaderless’ Occupy movement" - as ‘Admin’, ‘Documentarian’ and ‘Connector’.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354856514541353

very sorry, paywall.

#horizontalism #p2p #Occupy #women #activism #SocialMovements #ParticipatoryCulture

@neil @KevinCarson1

This review seems great and the book worth reading: "I get the impression some advocates of “scaling up” are unable to grasp the possibility of 300 million people brushing their teeth in an uncoordinated effort using their own toothbrushes, unless it is somehow “scaled up” to everybody brushing at one time with a single 10,000 ton toothbrush—coordinated by a central body that formulates tooth-brushing guidelines...."
#horizontalism #platformcapitalism