『she hacked you』 is like a pokèmon, evolving into a larger + more complex community project
Climate instability is a small component of impending total cascading ecological collapse.
In academia? Struggling for grants for what? Measuring the collapse in scientific papers that are ignored. Sooo then what?
Unfortunately, SHY is and can not be the solution; realistically, there probably isn't any solution. SHY is not proposing our goal is to fix the world, or stop impending ecological collapse
A community of scientists, and data shows mostly computer scientists
But also makers, hackers, academics, communists, eco-terrorists, anarchists, nurses, hardware and software engineers, socialists, ecologists, electrical engineers, lawyers, mycologists, programmers, journalists, artists, designers, arsonists, kopimists, nomads, writers, union organizers, educators, witches, musicians, environmentalists, arboreals, activists, narco-terrorists, luddites, night-timers, day-dreamers, exiles, and party-crashers
Ultimately, and Ideally a diverse group of people and skills bound together by similar goals: 1. Participate in a project larger than themselves 2. Collaborate on a project that seeks equitable treatment + dignity for all Terran life
All languages +cultures +nationalities +political-affiliations (including apolitical) +identities +religions +age-group are invited to participate
Unique perspectives divergent opinions presented in good faith are appreciated + will be discussed
Essentially none; you are free to be stupid, post about anything
SHY seeks to mimic the freedom of expression found on the early internet; but also includes freedom to endlessly ridicule, embarrass, insult, and shame stupid posts; it goes both ways
Preferably, cultivate Interpersonal communication skills, be comfortably wrong, and be able to learn from others
Racist, fascist, + classical to neo nazi- will wish they got banned; instead of consequences like oddly bricked devices Go ahead, post, put all your devices on the line to test if serious.
SHY originally was only free educational computer science courses streamed live weekly; it needed music for the stream, so a music project was created, needing students to avoid an empty stream, a social media presence on Mastodon+Reddit was created and grew rapidly.
Over time, the essence of SHY began to change. Always intended to be nucleation point for a community, but who was in it and shaped it, and so what it means are still open questions: it requires all of us to answer them.
Will this work? Who knows? Probably not, but we can only find out if we try
The founder and current administrator of the community is Mastodon.social@ekis
Until I regret this decision, anyone can contact directly + immediately via email:
Gladly accept love letters, but not fond of death threats; but don't censor yourself.
Use XMPP? Join our chat [email protected]
Or, Instant Message Ekis [email protected]
Contributing financial support will speed up growth of this community via paypal or via ko-fi
SHY is already tied to an established CA non-profit with a dedicated bank account. Revenue and donations will be held in a dedicated business account, community audited, and control will rest with the SHY community; it may fund open source projects or other yet undefined community objectives.
Work will begin to convert the organization into a non-profit workers' cooperative; demonstrating how cooperatives can be operated democratically, and without C-Suite executives. Completely worker owned, operated, non-profit cooperative (but we will be designing our own instead of using the new standard California model).
Goal of a non-profit workers cooperative:
Creating an organization within the current organizational ecosystem, explicitly with entirely different goals and motives combined with no board of directors, makes our design incredibly efficient by comparison; in addition, willing to lose profit for achieve other goals, will make SHY dangerous entity within the ecosystem*
Bitcoin Donations
Never buy & give them to SHY to sell:
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Give Me Your Coins!
And, of course, you can personally shower me (Ekis) with your cryptocurrency.
Made an obscene amount of money? And you haven't already sent some? I'm offended!
Will even take your esoteric fork-coin; but no regaling me with tales of extraordinary properties. Really don't care-
SHY is an ambitious project that exist beyond this site; already connected to an established CA non-profit. Members wishing to have democratic control will be required to join the SHY non-profit cooperative.
We are looking for community organizers, and we need department leaders for different types of skills. If you have been doing UX design for a long time, and could help newer people getting into it, we would to hear from you. The same writing (technical writing, but not exclusively), 2D artists, 3D artists, etc. We want find people with talent in each field they can share with others and build "departments"(until we have a better word) around these individuals. They will have weighted voting during decision making votes, not massively but noticeable.
We will be building new federated platforms, while providing fixes for existing ones.
We require modifications to an existing CA non-profit structure; writing new articles of operation, to provide for a unique cooperative structure.
The goal of establishing a entirely worker owned and operated non-profit cooperative is a very rare; it will serve both as a demonstration while empowering the SHY community to be more than bystanders.
We will redefine economic disruption
You are free to express yourself here, hate is not tolerated, but there are more fun and effective ways to remove these bad actors than a simple ban; and it will be fun if they let us explore the options available to us. It would be the biggest regret post of their life.
It's possible that the concept is just "that" broad, but I read the about and this post and I still don't feel like I really get what kind of content this space is meant to have.
Also, maybe this is just a personal pet peeve of sorts, but I find myself wanting to know the why/origin of the "She Hacked You" name, and I think the lack of explanation or acknowledgement kind of adds to my sense of not understanding the space.
I changed my display name to avoid confusion too
That is fair, I plan to return to streaming educational material over twitch soon and this just may be a community surrounding that.
But evolution of pokemon often involve name changes too tho
This would be the opposite of like a hyper-focused community and instead provide a more inclusive space that is scientific, leftist, and technologically forward thinking. There are a lot of leftist communities, a lot of scientific communities; but leftist scientific communities are actually quite rare.
Then there is the huge number of techno-savior cults among communities of scientists and especially computer scientists. My idea was like a middle ground for those concepts but without the techno-saviour cult aspect, and a more realistic view of technology both its positive and negative aspects.
Maybe consider it for now more like an old forum with a bunch of different communities tied together, instead of the micro-community model.
But again, its like a pokemon, this is an evolving thing. It only works if the community forums, so almost no point in trying to decide all the details unless there are people who are interested in forming a community.
Once we have a larger community then its easier to start deciding how decisions are made and then making those decisions; like changing names, and narrowing or at least segregating topics of interest.
It may not work, but the only way to find out is trying.
The XMPP MUC is still being used and I will continue using it regardless if this works.
I really like how you're thinking about all of this
Its evolving, but I appreciate the feedback. If there is anything particular that you like but don't want to say here you can XMPP me and we can talk about it.
Also keep in mind I'm actively building an activity pub server and associated web framework to build clients with. So this is more of a stepping stone to larger, more complex, using platforms that actually match the needs instead of just doing the first process of building a community.
The community aspect though cant be understated, its massively important, the platform is useless, the choices about names, the logos, all of it meaningless unless people come together around something. And I agree that something is debatable but we do have people forming around something; there is evidence of that, its up to us to shape that.