@neil but what if the designer sunglasses make you look like a cool cyberpunk villain
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Why wasn't I born a train
@jbzfn successful cooperatives had to learn this the hard way or were lucky enough to avoid it from the get go, the larger ones have elected leaders to retain the democratic element and vote on few specific things (like yearly bonuses) rather than every minute thing. in the context of the video, you can elect a creative director for a set time like a year or two, then you avoid overly safe decision making while keeping the democracy.
@banchan i'm not sure if you're looking for feedback, but i'd love if you could clarify that you're a coop and how you operate on the front page itself so visitors understand what they're in for immediately. https://resonate.coop/ does this pretty well with nice graphics, they also have a similarly condensed and nice "about coop" page
@tekknovator @jadugar63 @404mediaco
> While the WHO's ICD-11 (2022) has recognized compulsive sexual behaviour disorder as an "impulsive control disorder", CSBD is not an addiction, and the APA's DSM-5 (2013) and the DSM-5-TR (2022) do not classify compulsive pornography consumption as a mental disorder or a behavioral addiction. "The professional public health community is not behind the recent push to declare pornography a public health crisis." (Emily F. Rothman)
@evel do they actually have startup money? Their about page seems to indicate they were funded by community members, alike a consumer cooperative, not VC funding or something like that?
But if they mean well they definitely need to get their asses out of obtuse coop terms and text and clearly communicate ownership structures via easy to understand graphs that maybe even exist on the front-page. A good example is Resonate: https://resonate.coop/coop/
@misnina yeah, especially multi-stakeholder coops like this one where artists and the workers are going to own the coop together (rather than just workers) :)
@jlou European socialism was basically working towards this in the previous century by encouraging coops. Norway used to fund housing coops, Vienna still does, Finland has massive membership numbers in its consumer coops, the Spanish worker coops and Cannabis Social Clubs, French wine coops, Italian health/social coops...
@raccoonformality another thing to consider is that releasing the code immediately encourages modding, which you might want - in that case, the "release art and code separately" and "instant source available, timed open sourcing" models + GitHub/GitLab might be the most appealing.
@raccoonformality if a timed release appeals to you, have a look at Oni2's model (before the maintainer abandoned the project): source available, but any git commit will only become open source licensed 18 months later.
The interesting thing about that is that it doesn't necessarily discourage contributions, because you know it'll eventually be open source anyway, but the creator gets to monetise their product as long as they actively maintain it (and stay ahead of the timed license).
@GWillow it's a planned feature on the Mastodon roadmap under MAS-48 "Quote Posts", so we'll get it eventually - not sure if there are any details on how it'll work though
https://web.archive.org/web/20230731153445/https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
(joinmastodon.org/roadmap itself seems to be down for me right now, so I'm using an archive link above)