I’ve recently started a subreddit (yes I know reddit sucks I am aware) and an associated Discord to experiment with a simple idea, can social media be used to coordinate productive labor outside of market relations, where people work together to produce useful things directly for use, rather than for profit, wages, or exchange.
The experiment is just getting started, but I’m interested in seeing how far this type of coordination could go. We already use social media for organizing activity without the market, from birthday parties to protests, why not production? But anyway back to my question.
Recent events with Discord, where personal data is required in ways that make hosting experimental communities risky, have highlighted the need for a more secure, less corporate platforms for this type of social experimentation.
I’m curious if anyone here has experience with alternative platforms that could host this kind of collaborative, post-capitalist project safely? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Are you specifically looking to self-host? These are a few open source and self-hostable projects I’ve been keeping an eye on:
Honestly I’m not really sure what self-hosting is! I’m gonna do some reading and check out these sites, thanks for the info.
The fediverse counter to Discord is called Matrix, but I suspect you’ll find it wanting for the same reasons you decided to create a subreddit, rather than a threadiverse community.
Honestly I had no idea what Lemmy was until a couple days ago. Really I chose reddit cause I already used it, it had a big userbase in which to attract a crowd from etc.
I want to get off reddit too. That’s why I came here to ask the question, I figured people here might be more knowledgeable and could point me in the right direction.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that accusatorily, I meant it quite literally. Both Reddit and Discord are much smoother user experiences and have much larger audiences than their fediverse counterparts. I totally get why people still use the corporate counterparts. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope more people come join us, and you shouldn’t feel like you have to apologize for maintaining a Reddit presence. Someone has to stay there to invite people across, at the very least.