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Hello Fediverse!

I'm sharing a thing that I hope can be the beginning for many conversations, and represents for me a statement that is the result of many years of conversation:

https://slocanstatement.org/

I call it the #SlocanStatement, and I'm sharing it here first, in public, in the spirit of the Fediverse.

I hope you'll read it, share it if you think it's a valuable statement, and comment and revise it towards building consensus across the Fediverse.

Slocan Statement

slocanstatement.org
#slocanstatement
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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
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this feels like it could be a missing charter document for the (as yet fictional) Information from Malka Older's #Infomocracy

Exciting and, of course, already fraught with challenges
#infomocracy
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Jeremy Kahn
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blaine
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Jeremy Kahn
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blaine
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Danny (he/they)
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Suzanne she/her
Suzanne she/her
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A nice start. Something to think about as this goes forward is make sure other voices are represented here instead of exclusively voices that are typically involved in the creation of systems.
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blaine
blaine
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@DrSuzanne 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I explicitly didn't take it to the group-of-people-who-normally-talk-about this-stuff for exactly that reason.

I hate those "we the undersigned group of insiders" posts, precisely because they exclude so many voices.

I don't feel strongly about being involved in any process going forward, much less driving it.

I'll be involved if invited, but I wanted to use my voice & reach to help people start a conversation. ❤️
@Suzanne she/her
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Suzanne she/her
Suzanne she/her
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Is there no way to tag other servers? That would be ideal. Because you want to get your message out beyond your circle of mutuals/followers.
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blaine
blaine
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@DrSuzanne the normal mechanism is to use hashtags, but mastodon works best by way of messages being boosted; six degrees of k b & all that! 😅
@Suzanne she/her
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Suzanne she/her
Suzanne she/her
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Yes, I understand that. My concern is that the message won’t reach a broad enough audience. Just saying I hope this message reaches a wide audience doesn’t seem like enough. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Danny (he/they)
Danny (he/they)
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@DrSuzanne there is also the factor that many instances (like ours) cannot view posts from mastodon.social without following thus is can be a bit tricky to expose conversations to them. It seems like the audience you're trying to reach is not folks from other instances though, but rather instance admins (and not just mastodon...) The considerations for making this conversation more widespread thus should focus on these individuals IMO.
@Suzanne she/her

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