@courtney @rickf @cachondo @lennon @revndm @IrrationalMethod @scrottie

To throw one no-cost e-mail discussion group service that is well on its way with a very different model—the e-mail group belongs to everybody in it, not to the person that created it—here is our passion project.

With #VisionsUnite messages proposed to a group are promoted to be sent to all members of a group by a sampling of those members themselves.

https://gitlab.com/pwgd/visionsunite/#visions-unite

Running test instance: https://visionsunite.gigalixirapp.com/about

@tryst Either way, in one entity or multiple, i like a lot about sociocracy as an approach to organizational structure (again, in one entity or across multiple).

And (to boost my own decades-long desire project) i feel #VisionsUnite style sortition-for-communication-decisions is a crucial fallback needed for large scale organizations to be truly controlled by all the people in them, and not have decision-making power come to rest unhealthily in a small subset, regardless of org setup.

We mostly take over Agaric's Show & Tell Thursdays at 3pm Eastern to work on testing and development of this #FLOSS project.

https://agaric.coop/show

#VisionsUnite

@TheBulletin @chrisod

We are working on #VisionsUnite

Anybody can propose messages for everybody else to read—where everybody may be people in a group or platform—but each time a random sampling of that everybody decides if the message is indeed important enough to be put in front of everybody.

When we share the work of filtering posts, we give ourselves a short list of key news and information that is well short of infinite, without fear of missing out.

Everybody's voices, nobody's noise.

@mcc @kouhai

my #FluConf talk was about this! As you've found it is a thing and its called sortition. (i came to the idea thinking of how to do mass communication where we, the masses, do not give up control to some intermediary— we are doing a very lightweight form of sortition for #VisionsUnite )

Anyway mostly i wanted to say that jury duty falls down mostly where it *fails* to be sortition— where the prosecuting attorney can, say, remove anyone with lived experience with police violence.

And i really think #VisionsUnite can be that space­— not a replacement to #SocialMedia but the way we can engage with one another in more time-limited, less happenstance ways, to boost independent #media that truly informs and to break our own and others' filter bubbles in sustainable and constructive ways.

We meet to work on it in about 10 minutes (and every week 3pm Eastern / 20:00 UTC) at https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/show-and-tell/