Response by @benhylau to @mikemh :
Thanks for sharing this Michael.
Is Hypha supportive of participatory democracy, local decision-making, intersectionality, and many other values of the municipalist project?
Is Meet.coop a response of the article?
That depends a lot on what organizational structure and governance and service model emerge from the current process. Of course I would like for Meet.coop to express these values above, and build towards the larger movement in the article.
I think this will inform how Meet.coop expresses our approach to technology, as a practice vs. as a consumption . Are users participants or consumers ?
If we directly copy from what collocall offers to their users, then we aren’t signaling our intentions to engage users as participants. On the other hand, as in the case where "traditional leftist background found it hard to simply change their ways of practicing politics overnight”, it is hard for those who want alternatives to Zoom to all of a sudden learn about cooperative membership in order to hop on a reliable videoconference call. I’d like us to strike a balance, where we make sign-up really easy, but at the same time allow for paths for anyone to meaningfully participate in decision-making if they want .
What Luke says here seems like a good starting point: Governance Model
Lastly, I think these are important discussions, and perhaps we can move this thread to the forum?