A Misunderstood Approach

If you haven't read part 1 and part 2, do this before you read this post, otherwise it will not make that much sense what is going on here.

Again I got a couple of private messages with questions about <xxx> and a couple of statements where I feel like people misunderstood what the intention is.

So this blog post will be mainly about answering those questions and clearing up some things.

I like the idea, but I have no time for that

Time has nothing to do with that. There's no pressure in being highly active or contributing to the structure. If you don't want to, or simple can't vote, you don't have to. If you don't want to interact with the community for some time, don't do it.

This is all about being in a community with like-minded people and potentially opening your horizon. Nothing more.

It's your decisions how involved you want to be.

It was mentioned that no one is allowed to make a blog or website about the project. How is that handled and how would we even grow?

What we mean by that, is that there will be no platform we will use to recruit members or having a single instance that represents what we are standing for.

For growing, we will do it like we did before, the Fight Club style ;) If you don't know what I mean by that, you really should watch that movie.

Which FOSS software are you going to use to communicate?

This is something that still needs to be decided and if you want, you can bring your own thought process into this. Currently we are highly in favor of XMPP and Matrix. Since both are FOSS, can be used with multiple devices and are easy enough to use for non-tech people.

Briar would also be a very nice option, but since it's only viable on mobile platforms currently, we can't use it for our purpose (maybe in the future).

Another thing that is currently discussed is having a Reddit-style site for people that don't like real-time chatting. We are looking at Lobste.rs and Lemmy.

Why forming such a society when there's Reddit and other platforms?

This is simple. Reddit and many other big platforms are riddled with bad moderation, trolls, and mindsets that we would call "destructive". We want to have a environment with people that love to share, learn and help with experiences, ideas and everything in between.

Why is this project so important to you?

Lotus was a kind of family to me. We started it when I was in a bad place in my life and only had the 4 other guys to make my life a less awful. I was always a person that helped people where he was able to do so, and with the growth of Lotus, I was able to help so many more and formed a bounding that was like a family. I still have contact to the closest.

I hope I was able to answer the important questions and clear up some misunderstood parts.

If I sparked your interest in such a community, shoot me a message:

• Fediverse
• XMPP (Please use OMEMO): shellowl@nixnet.xyz
• Matrix: @shellowl:matrix.org