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?

https://privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-now-when/

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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."

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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!

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More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks

https://privacy.thenexus.today/more-notes-on-organizing/

This was originally going to be a #FediForum session ... oh well. But why let the FediForum organizers' screwups sabotage a worthwhile conversation? We decided to go ahead with the discussion anyhow. Here's the notes.

Feedback welcome! There are some specific questions in the reply, or here's a CryptPad form if you'd rather give feedback anonymously, but I'm also interested in reactions to topics we discussed in the meeting -- and thoughts in general!

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