I don’t want t/suki to be my website and one of my desires is to make this place akin to a community-owned maker space. I’m considering giving other members (that’s you!) the opportunity to host services for t/suki that they manage. I would have to coordinate some of the work to set up the authentication, but this comes with some benefits:
- We can collaboratively build out a suite of tools for everyone to use; you nor I have to do everything.
- You can restrict access to the service based on whether or not someone has a t/suki account of a certain trust level (like I currently do for the gitplace).
- t/suki already assumes some of the cost that it can pass on the benefits of cost-free, like a nice subdomain URL ^^
Is anyone interested in doing this? Let me know!
As an aside, a friend brought this article up a few months ago, and one of the things it mentions is:
But the most tempting option is always the same: volunteer labor. In theory, if you’re looking to build a platform that solves a problem as shared as “better online social spaces” then volunteers seem almost a no-brainer.
[…but] this alone has rarely been enough to create an environment that is truly sustainable and that doesn’t overwhelmingly rest on a few individuals.
Some of the ways they suggest managing this problem is by:
- Encouraging those with power to give up some of that power and for those with less power to assume that power.
- Considering alternative organizational structures like Sociocracy.
So I think that’s something to keep in mind. One of the things I’ve been considering is (eventually, when the community is bigger) organizing management of the various services into groups that can work together to share knowledge and skills for maintaining these things. This would help spread the power, so to speak.