Digital Community Building With Hubzilla
Inspired by books like
this and
this I would like to join --or, if it doesn't exist, start -- a discussion group devoted to questions of how to use Hubzilla to foster online, self-regulated, participatory communities. The group I'm interested in should not be primarily focused on technical details. Instead, it should make those matters secondary to questions of:
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Governance - how best to use Hubzilla's tools to foster a community that can govern itself
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Mutuality - how to encourage people to balance their individual interests and outlooks with the needs of the community as a whole (starting, e.g., from something like
this -
Commitment and Involvement - how to make it most likely that members of the community are highly invested active members and do not regard themselves as powerless consumers of a "platform" that is not of their own making
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Education and Documentation - how to develop and best present to technically unsophisticated users what they will need to know about Hubzilla to use it effectively and productively
I'm an old man of modest technical abilities but I am excited by Hubzilla's potential to enable people to break free of the digital sharecropping presided over by Facebook and the like. If people are having discussions somewhere about how to do that I'd like to join. If not, and if enough people are interested, I'd be happy to start one.
My apologies if this was not the appropriate place to post this.
