#socialcoop — Public Fediverse posts

Passing the #SocialCoop moderator baton to @hollie. It’s been pretty quiet, but with an uptick in “already suspended on their server” reports.

Hey @SocialCoop ! Is there any chance we'll be updating to 4.6 in the near future? I'd love to start using Collections.
#socialcoop

Passing the #SocialCoop moderator baton to @3wordchant. I saw a handful of mod cases, but overall it was pretty quiet.

Hi folks! Meet.coop have upgraded their Single Sign On system, and there have been reports of #SocialCoop users hitting problems logging in.

If you logged into Meet.coop using the above-mentioned Social.coop Single Sign On (i.e. if you have logged into Meet.coop since ~ May 2026), please can you take a second to:

1. Go to https://de.meet.coop
2. Click "Log in with Social.coop"
3. Log in

And tell me - either here or in DM:

* Did it work or did you get an error?
* Did you previously log in to meet.coop **using this single sign on** (not using a separate account)

CC @CaitlinWaddick @ansate @brainwane @wu_lee

Some really interesting divergences in @ricci’ hashtag tool, with a semi popular tech nerd instance as the medium and my home of #SocialCoop as the smol:

https://tag-federation.online/#tag=caturday&servers=mastodon.social,infosec.exchange,social.coop - Caturday broadly as visible here as on infosec.exchange, both being a sizable majority of m.s. Similar for DogsOfMastodon.

https://tag-federation.online/#tag=throwbackThursday&servers=mastodon.social,infosec.exchange,social.coop - ThrowbackThursday enjoys almost perfect replication on infosec, yet almost nothing on social.coop!

https://tag-federation.online/#tag=TransRights&servers=mastodon.social,infosec.exchange,social.coop - trans rights looks more like the animals hashtags than the nostalgia one, but with a bit more of a local to me dropoff.

Already wondering what kinds of pseudo-research one could do here re: what categories of hashtags have broader reach, and how fast the drop off is on smaller instances.

The Tech Working Group are doing some routine maintenance on #SocialCoop. Please stand by.

Psst hey #SocialCoop try going to https://de.meet.coop/b/rooms and click "Social.coop Member Log-in" and use your auth.social.coop login

At PCC, a food consumer cooperative chain in Seattle, made a worker take off a watermelon pin last week. Not even an explicitly Palestine pin. Workers are upset about this!

This action follows a long campaign for PCC to drop Israeli products. PCC even brags that they are "anti-colonial". But recently they've reversed their policies from previously vetting their product on variety for criteria, to selling products based on whether people actually buy them, and in the same revision banned any protest activities.

After collecting over a thousand signatures supporting the ban, I was also told the cooperative recently removed member voting.

An important reminder that just because something is labeled a "cooperative" doesn't necessarily mean anything. They're betting on your inherent trust of their brand while they backslide.

#coop #cooperatives #FreePalestine #SocialCoop #Seattle

Passing the #SocialCoop moderator baton to @hollie. This was A WEEK. Lots of complex cases I won't go into here and that you're well aware of. (I meant to post this earlier!)

#Socialcoop as we say it is, in Loomio.

I really like seeing this #SocialCoop develop on Mastodon, and also I am realizing that Twitter-style communication is not my preference. Are folks on other federated or cooperatively owned platforms that *aren't* Mastodon?

Hi #socialcoop and the greater fediverse 👋 nice to meet you.
We're a democratic #techcoop from Stuttgart, Germany and we're specialized in web software development, website design and #opensource service #hosting. We support organizations working for the common good and aim to build lasting connections in solidarity with them. Let's talk about open source, technology, democratic project and organization governance and solidarity economy.
For more check our website https://coquest.coop
#introduction #newhere #neuhier

My watch has ended! :)

flancian@rhizome:~$ sudo docker exec -it docker-web-1 tootctl accounts modify flancian --remove-role
OK

I wish the Mastodon instance its best! I will remain engaged in the Tech Working Group exploring other projects and available for emergencies but otherwise plan to shift away from #Mastodon project work.

In my years since I onboarded to the TWG I helped achieve the following objectives:

- Got Mastodon instance maintenance team back to a healthy rotation.
- Many updates :)
- Set up alpha.social.coop for testing riskier updates.
- Deployed the max characters hot patch :D

Thanks all!

#SocialCoop

Notes and links from Wednesday 22 April: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/04/22/notes-and-links-from-wednesday.html

A pottering day today, mostly in the garden, tidying up the pile of prunings I wasn’t able to mulch the other day.

(Today's reading links came via @adamgreenfield and @afewbugs. #socialcoop ftw!)

Finally, after ~25 days or so, I can follow @seldo!

#Socialcoop suspended him which made them vanish off the face of the earth from the point of view of our #Fediverse instance. Is that OK?

Honestly: it didn't feel great. I am very particular about being able to interact with the people I want to interact with, and take objection to insufficiently justified unilateral actions. I filed a concern about it with the moderation team and they recently reached a decision.

#SocialCoop PSA: emails from Mastodon, including verification emails for new accounts, are not being delivered because of our email provider (Mailgun) restricting our whole account in a relatively draconian response to a mistake I personally made while trying to fix email sending for our Bonfire instance.

The two instances are independent and I thought our email configuration was as well, but clearly I was wrong :) Apologies for the disruption!

I'm talking to support and hoping to get this restored today.

#Bonfire 1.0.2:

Our gift to you, my friends! In #Socialcoop

Wow, reading the #Socialcoop local feed is quite illuminating!

People are posting a variety of interesting and cozy content which is nice. They are also getting a fair amount of "engagement". Yet there is also almost zero chance I would have seen any of this in my main timeline because of how Mastodon works.

I just re-discovered the local #Socialcoop timeline and it's great!

RE: https://social.coop/@flancian/116370396868008389

#SocialCoop please vote if you can! Thank you!

#SocialCoop please vote on @ntnsndr's https://www.loomio.com/p/Uv5P2uAw/testing-a-narrower-frame-for-the-discussion when you can!

In other news #SocialCoop mods #suspended an account I want to talk to (and is not a Nazi or clear troll or anything that we have voted is bannable), and asked me to wait more than three weeks before they discuss my appeal and consider moving the account to just limit as I suggested (a corrective action with no downsides as I see it). 44 people out of 1.4k monthly actives are following them and might lose the connection if the suspend is not lifted by end of this month.

IMHO this is not ideal and we should collectively do better. I can't honestly recommend Social.Coop to people anymore until moderation practices improve in response times, transparency and alignment with voted policies.

I plan to update this thread as more comes to pass.

At #SocialCoop, we've been having a mighty debate about whether experiment with ATProto infrastructure. For fellow members, I've just created a sense check around a potential direction for a proposal: https://www.loomio.com/d/IF5MGpyU/would-social-coop-want-to-experiment-with-running-a-bluesky-pds-/36

#SocialCoop @SocialCoop and we're in 4.5.8 🥳 Thanks for your patience! 🙏

Hi all! We're going to try to update Mastodon to 4.5.8, so you will see some (hopefully short) disruption in the next 15-30 minutes 🙂

#SocialCoop @SocialCoop

For the #SocialCoop crowd: “do you feel okay with AI systems harvesting posts and training LLMs?”
https://www.loomio.com/d/ASGoq9TQ/zeitgeist-and-other-fediverse-llms

Hey #socialcoop whatever happened to the "local" section? I'm not on here much, and when I am, I feel so disconnected with this group which is why I joined in the first place

Hey #coop #cooperatives #housingcoop people - the Stirchley Development Co-op in Birmingham UK is being fucked by their contracted builder (to summarise bluntly) for £1.2m weeks before completion. More info here: https://www.stirchley.coop/stirchley-businesses-face-closure-jobs-at-risk-and-residents-already-homeless/

If any of you in the co-op community can help practically or otherwise please contact [email protected]

(I’m technically a member but am on medical leave so can't be involved - please don't contact me about it!)

Other tags: #WorkerCoops #socialhousing #SocialCoop #cooperative

For all #socialcoop people that had accounts on #meetcoop , they are working on a way for us to recover the recordings and aftewards, restore the socialcoop videoconference we had.

Stay tuned to recover coop based, trustable and collaborative #videoconference s. :)

https://forum.meet.coop/t/can-i-recover-my-recordings-despite-service-being-down/1764/3

@kawaiipunk @flancian