@witchescauldron
I would argue that Jay's idea is novel - if I understand it properly, a mutual-aid Indymedia for the fediverse age. There's lots of potential here. Mutual aid orgs tend to organize loosely and quickly and don't have the time or resources to reinvent the technological wheel.
Would further offer that *some* of the fedifam ideas might be useful here, like the communalization of infrastructure (e.g. setup and hosting)
@MediaActivist
Bonfire: https://bonfirenetworks.org/
The project is in beta but has its shit together.
And yes, by all means continue to post on this idea, it's a strong one. We need something like this and this fediverse toolset has the raw materials to build it
@MediaActivist
I have a thought or two about this call to action. It reminds a bit of my experience on the fedi, advocating for the communalized organization of a "free fediverse" based on what I call intentional federation.
I posted a few longer-form posts on these ideas. I never really included a direct "get in touch" sort of invitation but it was implicit. The results weren't terribly inspiring; the posts were politely received but didn't really spark much further convo, let alone movement.
It's tricky trying to organize stuff like this on social media because lots of folks, even as radicals, are here to hang out rather than activate and build something. We have an additional problem on the fedi, which is the predominance of Mastodon, a project which embodies zero consciousness for community organization and is entirely directed as a twitter clone for individuals.
Getting people interested enough to jump apps can be a challenge, and we have inadequate tools here on the fedi to organize groups. This is slowly changing, but only with Masto-alternatives. Bonfire is particularly interesting in this regard, it's being built from the ground up as a microblogger which makes group organization easy
@thenexusofprivacy
I have no input on the questions of practical implementation, but I would heartily encourage you to do a writeup following your effort (probably a thing you've already considered). That would be a very valuable contribution to fedi-knowledge.
On the question of adding *individual* accounts to the allowlist, that's an interesting one. That seems like the kind of thing that could become quite cumbersome without purpose-built functionality along the lines of the typical follow request. You're blazing a trail with not much in the way of tooling to assist
