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"the community" being some tiny subset of busybodies out of an OOMs-larger body of users that don't want to be bothered? Real question, I don't know anything a
by comeonbro 2mo ago
"the community" being some tiny subset of busybodies out of an OOMs-larger body of users that don't want to be bothered?
Real question, I don't know anything about Codeberg or its community.
- sergiotapia 2mo agoThis sounds like a very dumb decision to you and I and most, but see you don't use codeberg. I don't use codeberg. So it's totally fine to poke fun, and totally fine for them to do whatever they want. We aren't part of that community!
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- trentor 2mo agoCodeberg is a community steered project. If participating isn't something you're interested in, it's probably not the right fit for you. There are other Forgejo hosts (you could even be one yourself) where you can be the king of your own castle.
- alloyed 2mo agoiirc, it's a consumer co-op. So think of it as a vote of all users willing to pay for the membership to the service, who (correspondingly) are more likely to be power users/"activist" in the "activist investor" sense. This can be contrasted with a private company, which will often have a "activist investor", the actual owner!
- iamnothere 2mo agoGiven that the actual number of paying users is probably low, it sounds like it would be relatively cheap to disrupt policy for someone with deep pockets.
- masafej536 2mo agothis is a failure mode of consumer co-op that never occured to me. I thought the idea was bullet proof.
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- lmz 2mo agoHow is this a failure mode? Sounds like a good idea to me to let the members decide who they want in the club. Just wish this could also be done for national borders.
- tancop 2mo agoconsumer co ops are broken because you can pay to get in. any bad actor whos rich enough can get thousands of people to join and vote in a corrupt way. and if you make it invite only you defeat the whole point. imo the best way to fix is with a hybrid model where consumers pay member fees to get discounts but decision making is down to workers, basically how it was before shareholder supremacy.
- surgical_fire 2mo agoYes. The larger body of users who don't want to be bothered are likely welcome, but there are rules to be followed. They can go elsewhere you know? I mean, it's not like they are paying for anything.